{"result":[{"lastName":"Pratx","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Acting Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Acting Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=16137&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Guillem Pratx","firstName":"Guillem","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Guillem_Pratx","researchInterest":"My research interests center around three areas of medical physics: radionuclide imaging, X-ray molecular imaging and high-performance medical computing. 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NIRS brain imaging is performed as a stand alone technique or in combination with fMRI for diagnostic, functional and cognitive studies."},{"lastName":"Sun","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiation Oncology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiation Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14635&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Conroy Sun","firstName":"Conroy","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Conroy_Sun","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Fahrig","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research) (By courtesy),Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3865&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Rebecca Fahrig","firstName":"Rebecca","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Rebecca_Fahrig","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Ikeda","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Breast Cancer"},{"focus":"Breast Cancer - Diagnostic Imaging"},{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Radiology"},{"focus":"breast density"},{"focus":"breast cancer needle biopsy"},{"focus":"breast cancer screening"},{"focus":"breast cancer mammography"},{"focus":"breast cancer ultrasound"},{"focus":"breast cancer magnetic resonance imaging"},{"focus":"breast cancer outcomes"},{"focus":"breast cancer tomosynthesis"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4275&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Debra M. 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Her lab characterizes CTCs in different cancers, investigating CTC profiles and mutations as potential companion diagnostics to define individual patient response to newer biologically-based cancer therapies."},{"lastName":"Pelc","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Bioengineering"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Electrical Engineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4111&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Norbert Pelc","firstName":"Norbert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Norbert_Pelc","researchInterest":"Broadly, Dr. Pelc is interested in the physics, engineering and mathematics of medical imaging, especially computed tomography, digital x-ray imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, and hybrid multimodality systems.  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Current applications I am working on include Raman spectroscopy and photoacoustic tomography."},{"lastName":"Rutt","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=11273&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Brian Rutt","firstName":"Brian","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Brian_Rutt","researchInterest":"My research interests center on MRI research, including high-field and high-resolution MRI technology development as well as applications of advanced MRI techniques to studying the brain, cardiovascular system and cancer."},{"lastName":"Bazalova","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10812&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Magdalena Bazalova","firstName":"Magdalena","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Magdalena_Bazalova","researchInterest":"I have been working in three main research areas connected by Monte Carlo simulations: 1)  treatment planning for small animal radiotherapy, 2) x-ray fluorescence CT (XFCT) imaging for high-sensitivity molecular imaging, and 3) a novel concept of radiation therapy with very high-energy electron (VHEE) beams. 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My work focusses on PET front-end detectors, data acquisition, and system simulation. The goal is to improve spatial and energy resolution yielding a better image quality. 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These applications require development of faster and more efficient MRI methods that provide improved diagnostic contrast compared with current methods. My work includes novel excitation schemes, efficient imaging methods and reconstruction tools.  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