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my schedule (SPRING '08)

 
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Research

Research Interests:

My research interests focus on all aspects of functional tomographic imaging, in particular positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). Along with my research colleagues in the Department of Radiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), I study image formation and data acquisition, image processing and correction techniques, image reconstruction, statistical quantification, and objective image-quality assessment.

A secondary line of work has been on the development and evaluation of a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) for use in medical signal acquisition. The device was invented by a colleague, Dr. Lynn Antonelli, at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, RI. The LDV is used to measure the blood-pulse waveform of patients. We are currently acquiring patient data at UMMS in collaboration with Dr. Larry Rosenthal in order to correlate our signal with the actual EKG and blood pressure waveform of human subjects.

I have recently begun to study data mining techniques and the analysis of large data sets, with applications to customer relationship management in business. My recent work includes regression modeling of response variables, especially when the value of the independent variable is unknown.

Former Students :

John Hoppin, '98

After graduating from Holy Cross, Jack attended the University of Arizona, earning a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics. He then completed a post-doctoral position at the Research Centre Jülich in Germany. He is currently works with Bioscan Imaging.

Jack's honors thesis was titled Noise Characterization of Reconstruction Algorithms in Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography. Additionally, he also co-authored the publication Noise Characterization of Block-Iterative Reconstruction Algorithms: II. Monte Carlo Simulations.

Kevin Germino, '01

After graduating from Holy Cross, Kevin enrolled in the Medical Sciences Training Program at Northwestern University.

Kevin's honors thesis was titled Determination of Three-Dimensional Voxel Sensitivity for Two- and Three-headed Coincidence Imaging. Additionally, he also co-authored the publication Three-Dimensional Voxel Sensitivity for Two- and Three-headed Coincidence Imaging.

Candida Desjardins, '07

Didi just graduated from Holy Cross. She is attending medical school at Case Western Reserve University.

Didi was one of three Fenwick scholars her senior year. Her project was the development, testing, and analysis of a laser Doppler vibrometer, which we used to measure the blood pulse waveform of human subjects.

Didi's Fenwick thesis was titled A Remote and Non-Contact Measurement of the Blood Pulse Waveform with a Laser Doppler Vibrometer. She presented her work at the 2007 SPIE Photonics West Conference in San Jose, CA and published a conference paper titled A remote and non-contact method for obtaining the blood-pulse waveform with a laser Doppler vibrometer.