Academic Rank

Professor

Professional Qualifications

BSc (Hons.), Physics, Leeds University
PhD, Solid State Physics, Leeds University
FCCPM, Fellow of the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine

Appointments

Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto
Professor, Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto
Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, Lakehead University
Head, Medical Physics Research, Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre
Senior Scientist, Imaging Research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Founding Scientific Director, Molecular Medicine Research Centre, Thunder Bay Regional Health Science Centre

Academic & Clinical Interests

• Fundamental limits of x-ray imaging
• Cardiac imaging
• Cancer imaging
• PET Imaging

Current Research Projects

• High quantum efficiency detectors for radiation therapy
• Avalanche multiplication in amorphous selenium and application to fluoroscopic imaging
• Scalable PET detectors based on avalanche gain in amorphous selenium
• Low cost digital radiographic systems based on liquid crystals
• Hybrid MRI/x-ray imaging systems
• Image guided optimization of x-ray cardiac angiography
• A novel solid-state PET detector for simultaneous PET and MR Imaging
• A novel high gain detector for breast cancer dedicated PET Imager nonlinear microscopy imaging for clinical diagnostics
• Novel nanostructure assemblies for imaging

Selected Publications

See current publications list at PubMed.