Past Recipients CaIC Young Investigator Award Winners

2015

1st Place – Chen-Ming Chang - "Preliminary PET performance evaluation of an RF field-penetrable brain-sized PET insert for simultaneous PET/MR imaging"
2nd Place – Nicholas Guehl - A combined PET-fMRI model for mapping neurotransmission: simulation and initial demonstration"
3rd Place – Richard Manber - "MR Image-based PET Respiratory Motion Correction in PET/MR"

Honorable Mention - Hyun Joon An - "Quantitative evaluation of improved MR-based attenuation correction for brain PET/MRI studies"
Honorable Mention - Vikram Adhikarla - "Modeling of [11C]MeNET binding to the norepinephrine transporter (NET) in healthy humans"
Honorable Mention - Jonathan George - "Evaluation of X-ray Fluorescence Emission Tomography for Real-time Assessment of Photodynamic Therapy Effect"
Honorable Mention - Andrew Groll - "Evaluation of Hybrid Pixel-Waveform (HPWF) CdTe and CZT Detectors for Sub-500 µm Resolution PET Imaging for Mouse Brain Studies"

2014

1st Place – Guillem Pratx - "A novel radioluminescence microscope for imaging radiotracers at the single-cell level"
2nd Place – Dustin Osborne - Whole-body clinical dynamic imaging and Patlak modeling using continuous bed motion techniques"
3rd Place – Kuangyu Shi - "Hierarchical pharmacokinetic modeling for the analysis of dynamic F-18 FET PET/MR"

Honorable Mention -Mary Germino - "Generation of parametric images from time-of-flight 82Rb and 15O-water cardiac PET with ICA-derived input functions"
Honorable Mention - Will Hutchcroft - "Anatomical-image aided PET reconstruction by the kernel method"
Honorable Mention - Chuan Huang - "Fast tagged MR acquisition for PET motion correction in simultaneous cardiac PET-MR"
Honorable Mention - Auranuch Lorsakul - "A numerical observer for task-based assessment on kinetic parametric imaging

2013

1st Place – Moses Wilks – "Quantitative in vivo imaging of slowly diffusing radiotracers"
2nd Place – Joyita Dutta – "Respiratory motion compensated pulmonary imaging using simultaneous PET-MR"
3rd Place – Hao Li – "Direct MAP estimation of attenuation sinogram using TOF PET emission data"

Honorable Mention - Guen Bae Ko – "New high performance SiPM PET insert to 9.4-T MR scanner for simultaneous PET/MRI studies"
Honorable Mention - Jongmin Cho  – "Proton beam range verification using PET: Comparison of polycarbonate and copper activation"
Honorable Mention - Chuan Huang  – "Real-time 3D motion tracking using MR micro-coils for PET imaging"
Honorable Mention - Matteo Tonietto – "Plasma metabolite correction: Improvements of current parent plasma models"

2012

1st Place – Yoann Petibon– "MR-based motion compensation in simultaneous cardiac PET-MR "
2nd Place – Mattijs Elschot– "Quantitative comparison of PET and SPECT for imaging the yttrium-90 microsphere distribution after liver radioembolization"
3rd Place – Si Chen– "Four-dimensional PET image reconstruction with respiratory and cardiac motion compensation from list-mode data"

Honorable Mention - Chung Chan– "Improved image reconstruction for dedicated cardiac SPECT with truncated projections"
Honorable Mention - Arda Konik  – "Comparison of three different methods of acquiring attenuation maps for SPECT in the presence of respiratory motion"
Honorable Mention - Ida A. Nissen  – "Impact of partial volume corrections on quantitative brain PET studies"
Honorable Mention - Mike Sattarivand– "Symmetric geometric transfer matrix partial volume correction for PET imaging"

2011

1st Place – Sri Harsha Maramraju – "Quantitative PET/MRI in rodents in a 9.4 T microMRI scanner using electromagnetic shielding"
2nd Place – Shan Tong – "Edge artifacts in PSF-based PET image reconstruction: Characterization and mitigation"
3rd Place – Mohammad Dawood – "A mass conservation based optical flow method for combined partial volume and cardiac motion correction in 3D PET"

Honorable Mention - Frans van der Have – "Simultaneous pinhole PET-SPECT: A new approach for high resolution multi-probe imaging"
Honorable Mention - Koon-Pong Wong – "Simplified quantification of FDDNP PET studies"
Honorable Mention - Matthias Eiber – "Value of a Dixon based MR-PET attenuation correction sequence for the localization and evaluation of PET positive lesions"
Honorable Mention - Jongmin Cho – "Feasibility of using O-18 for PET proton beam range verification"

2010

1st Place – Baowei Fei, PhD, EngD - MRI-based attenuation correction and quantification tools for combined MRI/PET
2nd Place – Se Young Chun, PhD - 4D tagged MR-based motion correction in simultaneous PET-MR.
3rd Place – Brian Miller - FastSPECT III: A third-generation high-resolution dynamic SPECT imager.

Honorable Mention - Chi Liu - Respiratory motion correction for PET/CT with internal-external motion correlation.
Honorable Mention - Woutjan Branderhorst - Effects of focusing in multi-pinhole SPECT with optical image-guided scan planning.
Honorable Mention - Abhijit Chaudhari - Initial assessment of high resolution FDG-PET/CT with MRI for quantifying early response to TNF-a inhibitor treatment in rheumatoid arthritis.
Honorable Mention - None

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