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Research Interests:
I am a dedicated to cancer research and I am greatly interested in understanding tumor genesis, finding potential targets for new drugs and improving diagnosis techniques and therapy planning. I have acquired experience in PET imaging while I worked in the advanced engineering department in nuclear imaging at Philips Medical Systems. There, I was responsible of modeling the physics and electronics of PET imaging systems. I was also involved in several studies on the theoretical limit of spatial resolution of a PET scanner, the image quality and the downscatter contamination from high-energy photons of I-124 and Y-86 in 2D and 3D PET. I am currently working on the woodchuck model of hepatocellular carcinoma and investigating the feasibility of PET imaging on this model by using different radiotracers. My research focus is to non-invasively quantify molecular processes using dynamic PET image sequences in combination with tracer kinetic modeling methods. I have already used such techniques to estimate glucose transport rate parameters and to quantify the metabolic rate of acetate consumption in this animal model.
CV Overview:
I received my undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at the Polytechnic School of Montreal in Canada and my master`s degree in aerospace engineering from the National Superior School of Aeronautics and Space of Toulouse in France. I joined the department of biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University in August 2004 to start a Ph. D. program. |
