I am an attending physicist with expertise and board certification in physics of nuclear medicine and radiation therapy, and I am involved in clinical work, teaching, and research.
My research is in applying physical and numerical methods for extracting information about biological structure, function, and the effects of radiation. Recent examples include investigations of correlations between the distribution of radiotracer uptake and histopathology findings in biopsy specimens extracted under PET/CT guidance, correlations of radiotracer uptake with genomic mutations in tumors, and evaluation of the accuracy of tumor segmentation in PET images. A special focus of my efforts is the development of a method for Quantitative Autoradiography of Biopsy Specimens (QABS), which allows in-situ validation of new radiopharmaceuticals with high spatial resolution, provides additional reference data for pathology-PET/CT image data sets, and has the potential to offer useful information for guiding interventional radiology procedures and localized cancer therapies.