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Health

Medical imaging

News and Updates

Katheryn Keenan

Measuring Up: The Phantom of the Library

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has revolutionized medical diagnostics and research by providing a non-invasive way to investigate internal tissue structures

Projects and Programs

X-ray computed tomography (CT)

Ongoing
Current work in x-ray computed tomography centers on diffraction effects in micro CT and computed tomography of integrated circuit interconnects.
skin reflectance graphs

Reflectance Measurements of Human Skin

Ongoing
The purpose of this human subjects study is to collect high-quality measurements of the reflectance spectrum of human skin and assess the variability across the
MRI standards

Quantitative MRI

Ongoing
The Quantitative MRI project develops calibration structures (phantoms) and validates quantitative imaging protocols for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Publications

Calorimetry in Computed Tomography Beams

Author(s)
Huaiyu H. Chen-Mayer, Ronald Tosh, Fred B. Bateman, Paul Bergstrom, Brian E. Zimmerman
A portable calorimeter for direct realization of absorbed dose in medical computed tomography (CT) procedures was constructed and tested in a positron emission

Software

Awards