October 25, 2024. Shalini Subramanian has received a white coat and become a PhD candidate. The photos from ceremony can be found here. Congratulations Shalini! Way to go! 👍😄
September 23, 2024. Ken Taguchi’s paper on scintillator-based photon counting detector has been published in Medical Physics. It shows a surprising result—in some way, scintillator is better than CdTe or CZT. Ha! 😁 Please read this paper. [Link]
September 20, 2024. Ken Taguchi’s paper on the number of energy windows (bins) for photon counting detector has been published in Journal of Medical Imaging. It finally answers a question that has been popping up at conferences and private conversations many, many times—What is the optimal number of energy windows? Two bins are not enough, but more bins increases noise, right? What would be your answer? 😜 [Link]
August 5–10, 2024. Shalini Subramanian and Ken Taguchi presented papers on IPEN stroke: Shalini on the IPEN stroke algorithm; Ken on motion compensating IPEN algorithm (presentation video). Both were received very well and we had great discussion with our colleague scientists.
June 27, 2024. After years of blood, sweat, and tears by Ken and his colleagues in Rad Onc and Radiology, we have established Medical Physics PhD Program at JHU. Yay! 😄 Ken and Kai Ding of Rad Onc will be the inaugural co-directors of the program. The program website is here. Please send your strong students to this program.
March 1, 2024. Donghyeon Lee’s Medical Physics paper on a photon counting detector model was highlighted as one of seven featured papers in the journal email. Congratulations Donghyeon!! [Link]
February 18–22, 2024. Shalini Subramanian presented her paper on IPEN stroke at SPIE Medical Imaging 2024 . The first person at the microphone asked, “Can you explain to me like you would talk to a kid how your method works? It sounds like a magic to me.” 😄 Her abstract, proceedings, and presentation video are here.
February 14, 2024. Ken’s (Scott S. Hsieh of Mayo Clinic is the first author) Medical Physics paper on silicon detector’s potential has been published. [Link]
January 11, 2024. Donghyeon Lee’s paper on a photon counting detector model has been published in Medical Physics. It is the first model that can handle both (a) a global, count-rate-dependent model–data mismatch and (b) a local, pixel- and energy bin-specific deviation from averaged (good) pixels. A hard work like this adds practical values to sophisticated models and deserves recognition. Congratulations Donghyeon!! We are proud of you! [Link]
January 11, 2024. Ken Taguchi’s paper on direct energy binning has been published in Medical Physics. Congratulations Ken!! [Link]
November 27, 2023. Shalini Subramanian gave a talk on IPEN at RSNA 2023 and did an excellent job. Congratulations Shalini!! We are so proud of you!
November 27, 2023. Junyu Chen has been selected as one of Forbes 30 under 30 in Healthcare. Wow! This is incredible! Congratulations Junyu!!
November 14, 2023. Shalini Subramanian received the Best Clinical Poster Award at Radiology Research Day for IPEN work. This is a rare accomplishment for a non-MR, non-cancer work. Congratulations Shalini!!
November 8, 2023. Shalini Subramanian, Donghyeon Lee, and Ken Taguchi presented their posters at 2023 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference in Vancouver, Canada. Congratulations!! The information can be found at Shalini’s, Donghyeon’s, and Ken’s.
August 2023. Scarlett Wei has joined KU lab. Welcome Scarlett!! It is great to have you!
May 8, 2023. Junyu Chen received a Johns Hopkins Discovery Award 2023. Yay! His award is entitled, “Constructing Whole-body PET/CT Atlas for PSMA Therapy Dosimetry.” The selection process was very competitive this year, with an acceptance rate of 18% (35 out of 191 proposals, many from established investigators). This is an amazing first step as an independent researcher. Congratulations!! Here is the link.
April 18, 2023. Junyu Chen’s first-author papers had been ones of the most downloaded papers in Medical Image Analysis and Medical Physics, respectively. Wow!! Congratulations!!
February 19–23, 2023. Donghyeon Lee presented his first paper as a KU lab member on photon counting detector models at SPIE Medical Imaging 2023. His abstract, proceedings, and presentation video are here.
February 19–23, 2023. Ken Taguchi presented his paper on charge sharing correction with spectral coincidence counters at SPIE Medical Imaging 2023. His abstract, proceedings, and presentation video are here.
