Current Position:
11/96 - ...
Guest scientist fellow, German
Cancer Research Center, Medical
PET Group -
Biological Imaging,
Heidelberg, Germany
Education:
1979 - 1985 Lycée Lèonin Highschool, Nea Smyrni, Greece. Highest honors
1985 - 1990
Diploma Degree, Electrical Engineering, July 1990, National
Technical University of Athens
(NTUA), Greece
1990 Erasmus Fellowship, University of Nancy, LIEN, France (03-06/1990)
1990 Professional Engineer License, Technical Chamber of Greece (08/1990)
1990 - 1992
M.S. Degree,
Biomedical Engineering, October
1992, Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey, USA
1992 - 1996
Ph.D. Degree,
Biomedical Engineering, January
1996, Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey, USA
1996 2nd
IEEE-EMBS International Summer School on Medical Imaging, Brittany,
France
Previous Work Experience:
1987 - 1989 Assistant Engineer, Delta Techniki S.A., Athens, Greece (part-time)
1992 - 1995 Math Tutor, Educational Opportunity Fund Program, Douglass College, NJ, USA
1992 - 1995
Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University,
in: "Computer Applications in Biomedical
Engineering", "Advanced Brain Research", "Neural Networks", "Introduction
to
Biomedical Engineering"
1995 Conference Chair Assistant,
Publication and Registration Manager, 1995 IEEE
International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, held on July 10-14,
1995, Athens.
1996 Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
J. W. Goethe University Hospital,
Nuclear
Medicine Department,
Frankfurt, Germany
Honors and Awards:
- State Fellowships Foundation of Greece awards for outstanding students, 1985-1988
- Marion Johnson Fellowship, Rutgers University, Graduate School, 09/90-06/92 and 09-12/95
- Teaching Assistantship, Rutgers University, Biomedical Engineering Dept., 09/92-06/95
- Michael G. Mulinos Postgraduate Essay Award, The Hellenic Medical Society of New York, December 1995
- Association for the promotion of cancer
diagnosis and treatment in Heidelberg (Verein zur
Foerderung der Krebserkennung und
Krebsbehandlung e.V. Heidelberg) Fellowship, November 1996.
Dissertations:
- "Diffraction tomography using ultrasound
waves'', [in greek], Diploma Thesis, 1990.
Director: Prof.
Nikolaos Uzunoglu.
- "A simulation study of the expectation-maximization
algorithm for image reconstruction in positron
emission tomography'',
M.S. Thesis, 1992, 109 p., RLIN
ID: G93-B16907.
Director: Prof. George Tzanakos.
- "Maximum
likelihood image reconstruction for positron emission tomography: Convergence
characteristics and
stopping
rules'',
Ph.D. Dissertation, 1996, 240 p.,
RLIN ID: G97-B4936. Also available by UMI.
Director: Prof. George Tzanakos.
Dissertation abstract published
in Medical Physics,
24(8): 1335, August 1997
Languages:
- German (Mittelstufe Sprachdiplom, Goethe Institut (1989), living and work experience in Germany).
- French (Sorbonne I (1983), Sorbonne II (1984), living and work experience in France).
- English (1st Certificate, TOEFL, studies, living and work experience in USA).
- Spanish (conversational).
- Greek (mother tongue).
Associations:
- Research Associate, Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Visiting Research Associate, Division of Nuclear and Particle Physics, Physics Department, University of Athens, Greece
- Member of the Engineering
in Medicine and Biology (EMB), the Nuclear
and Plasma Sciences and the
Medical Imaging
Society of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
(IEEE)
- Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and the Greek Society of Biomedical Engineering
- Associate member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Society
- Former Member of the American
Association of University Professors (AAUP)
Reviewer of scientific work:
- Reviewer for the IEEE
Transactions on Nuclear Science, Editor: E.J.
Hoffman, UCLA School of
Medicine.
Grants - Funded Research Projects:
- D.A.A.D.
Fellowship for language studies
at the Goethe Institut, Schwäbisch
Hall, Germany, summer 1989.
D.A.A.D.
is the German Academic Exchange
Service.
- Grant-in-Aid
of Research, Sigma Xi, The
Scientific Society, January 1994 and
- Dr.
Valergakis Graduate Research Grant, The
Hellenic University Club of N. York, April 1994.
Title: ''Design and performance
evaluation of a high-resolution PET scanner using Monte Carlo techniques''.
Amount: 2250 USD. Duration: 3 months
(principal investigator).
- Student Fellowship Award, Education
and Research Foundation of the Society of
Nuclear Medicine,
USA, June 1995.
Title: ''The use of the ALOPEX
algorithm for image reconstruction in PET ''.
Amount: 3000 USD. Duration: 3 months
(principal investigator).
- D.A.A.D.
Fellowship for postdoctoral research in Frankfurt, Germany, January
1996.
Title: ''Application of the EM
algorithm for image reconstruction in PET'',
in collaboration with the
Department
of Nuclear Medicine
at the Medical Center of the University
of Frankfurt am Main.
Amount: 9600 DM. Duration: 6 months
(principal investigator).
- Guest Scientist Fellowship, German
Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Medical
PET Group, January 1997.
Title: ''Reconstruction
and quantification of PET images from multitracer studies".
Amount: 72000 DM. Duration: 24
months (principal investigator).
- Bilateral collaboration project between
Greece and Germany, sponsored by the General
Secretariat of Research and
Technology
of Greece and the International
Office of the Ministry
of Education, Science, Research and Technology
of
Germany, June 1997.
Title: ''Image reconstruction and
quantification from multitracer studies with positron emission tomography'',
in collaboration with the Biomedical
Engineering Laboratory of the National
Technical University of Athens,
Greece.
Amount: 40000 DM. Duration: 24
months.
- Exchange project with Spain - "Acciones
Integradas Hispano-Alemanas", sponsored by the German
Academic
Exchange
Service
(D.A.A.D.), November 1997.
Title: "Reconstruction and quantification
of PET images in oncology",
in collaboration with the
Group of
Bioengineering and Telemedicine
of the Polytechnic University of Madrid,
Spain.
Duration: 12 months.
- Research
Training Grant, Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR)
Programme, May 1996 (awarded but not accepted).
Title: ''Design and evaluation
of a novel attenuation correction method for PET using postinjection
and single photon
transmission measurements for quantitative
brain and cardiac studies'',
in collaboration
with the Group of Bioengineering and
Telemedicine
of the Polytechnic
University of Madrid, Spain.
Amount: 105184 ECU. Duration: 24
months (principal investigator).
Invited Talks:
- Invited Lecturer, one-semester seminar
course "Nuclear Tomography, SPECT-PET'', sponsored
by the European Community Education
Committee, University of Athens, Medical
School, Greece, October 17-21, 1994
- Invited Speaker, 5th Mediterranean Meeting
on Nuclear Medicine and Radiopharmaceuticals, Athens,
Greece,
May 23-28, 1995
- Invited Speaker, 7th
Mediterranean Meeting on Nuclear Medicine and Radiopharmaceuticals,
Athens, Greece,
and Istanbul, Turkey, May 7-11,
1997
- Invited Speaker, 8th
Mediterranean Meeting on Nuclear Medicine and Radiopharmaceuticals,
Rome, Italy and
Istanbul, Turkey, May 19-24, 1998
- Invited Speaker, 1st Seminar on Interventional Nuclear Medicine in Clinical Praxis, Berlin, Germany, August 29, 1998
Conferences:
Authored paper presentations (oral
or poster) at the following International Conferences:
- 13th IEEE-EMBS Annual International Conference, Orlando, FL, USA, November 1991
- 18th IEEE Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Kingston, RI, USA, March 1992
- 1992 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Orlando, FL, USA, October 1992
- 14th IEEE-EMBS Annual International Conference, Paris, France, November 1992
- 19th IEEE-EMBS Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Newark, NJ, USA, March 1993
- 15th IEEE-EMBS Annual International Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, October 1993
- V International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 1994
- 16th IEEE-EMBS Annual International Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA, November 1994
- 1994 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Norfolk, VA, USA, November 1994
- 1996 SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium, Newport Beach, CA, USA, February 1996
- 18th IEEE-EMBS Annual International Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 1996
- 35th Annual International Meeting of the German Society of Nuclear Medicine, Kassel, Germany, April 1997
- 44th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, San Antonio, TX, USA, June 1997
- European Association of Nuclear Medicine Congress, Glaskow, Scotland, UK, August 1997
- 1997 ECAT Technical Users Meeting, Dresden, Germany, September 1997
- 35th Annual International Meeting of the German Society of Nuclear Medicine, Leipzig, Germany, April 1998
- 45th
Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, June 1998
Activities:
- Studies of classical guitar, National School of Music, Athens, Greece, 1980-1988.
- Member of the Hellenic Sailing School and the Mountaineering Team of Amfiklia, Greece.
- FCC-licensed operator,
producer of the weekly "Voice of Greece'', WRSU
88.7, Rutgers University Radio, 1992-1996.
References:
Prof.
Dr. med. Gustav Hoer
Director of the Nuclear
Medicine Clinic, Medical School, Johann
Wolfgang Goethe-University,
Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, Haus
21 D, 60950 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Tel: +49-69-6301 6801, Fax:+49-69-6301
6805, e-mail: [email protected]
Djilali Kourtiche, PhD
Laboratory
of Electronic Instrumentation of Nancy (LIEN), University Henri Poincaré,
Faculty of
Sciences, BP 239, 54506
Vandoeuvre-Lès-Nancy, France
Tel: +33 3 8391 2071, Fax
+33 3 8391 2391, e-mail: [email protected]
Dimitrios Koutsouris,
PhD
Professor, Institute
of Communications and Computer Systems, Department
of Electrical and Computer
Engineering,
National Technical University of Athens,
Heroon Polytechneiou 9, 117 73, Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-1-772 3926, Fax:
+30-1-772 2431, e-mail: [email protected]
George Limouris, MD
Associate Professor in Nuclear
Medicine, University of Athens, Medical
School, Vas. Sophias 76, 11528 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-1-6403456, Fax:
+30-1-6424456
Evangelia
Micheli-Tzanakou, PhD
Professor and Chairperson,
Biomedical Engineering Department,
Rutgers University, 617 Bowser Road,
Piscataway 08854, NJ, USA
Tel: +1-732-445 2037, Fax:
+1-732-445 3753, e-mail: [email protected]
Thomas
V. Papathomas, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychology
Department and Biomedical Engineering
Department, Rutgers University,
617 Bowser Road,
Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Tel: +1 732-445 6533, Fax:
+1 732-445 6715, e-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ulrich
Scherer
FH Aachen, Abt. Juelich,
Ginsterweg 1, D-52428 Juelich, Germany
Tel: +49-2461-99 31 24,
Fax: +49-2461-99 31 99, e-mail: [email protected]
Prof.
Dr. med. Ludwig G. Strauss
Coordinator of the Medical
PET Group - Biological Imaging, German
Cancer Research Center (DKFZ),
Department of Oncological
Diagnostics and Therapy, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Tel. +49-6221-422500, Fax:
+49-6221-422476, e-mail: [email protected]
George Tzanakos, PhD
Associate Professor, Division
of Nuclear and Particle Physics, Physics
Department, University of Athens,
Greece
and Visiting Professor,
Biomedical Engineering Department,
Rutgers University, 617 Bowser Road,
Piscataway,
NJ 08854, USA
Tel: +30-1-728 4938, Fax:
+30-1-723 5089, e-mail: [email protected]
Nikolaos
Uzunoglu, PhD
Professor, Director of the
Division of Electroscience and of the Institute
of Communications and Computer Systems,
Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National
Technical University of Athens, Heroon Polytechniou 9,
15773 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-1-772 3556, Fax:
+30-1-772 3557, e-mail: [email protected]
Yehuda
Vardi, PhD
Professor, Statistics
Center, Rutgers University, 110
Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Tel: +1-732-445 4314, Fax:
+1-732-445 2691, e-mail: [email protected]
Publications:
Articles in journals
/ contributions to books: