2023
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Tuesday Tue
Location
Stanford University School of Medicine
291 Campus DrStanford, CA 94305
Medical Physics Seminar - Adam Wang
Photon Counting CT: Why It’s the “Hottest Clinical Procedure” in Radiology
Time:
12:00pm – 1:00pm Seminar & Discussion
Location:
Zoom Webinar
Webinar Registration: https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Y5QwpIWMQ3ugvdnzT_iyEQ
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Speaker
Adam Wang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology and, by courtesy, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Dr. Adam Wang is an Assistant Professor of Radiology and, by courtesy, Electrical Engineering at Stanford. His group develops technologies for advanced x-ray and CT imaging, including artificial intelligence for CT acquisition, reconstruction, and image processing; spectral imaging, including photon counting CT; and novel system and detector designs. He is the Director of the Photon Counting CT Lab, Zeego Lab, and Tabletop X-Ray Lab. Dr. Wang completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford under the supervision of Dr. Norbert Pelc, developing strategies for maximizing the information content of dual-energy CT and photon counting detectors. He then pursued a postdoc at Johns Hopkins with Dr. Jeff Siewerdsen in Biomedical Engineering, developing reconstruction and registration methods for x-ray based image-guided surgery. Prior to returning to Stanford in 2018, he was a Senior Scientist at Varian Medical Systems, developing x-ray/CT methods for image-guided radiation therapy.
Photon Counting CT: Why It’s the “Hottest Clinical Procedure” in Radiology
Stanford Radiology recently installed a research Photon Counting CT (PCCT) scanner at 3155 Porter Drive that is only the second such scanner in the United States and will allow for many exciting new research opportunities. In this talk, I will explain how PCCT offers higher spatial resolution, better image quality, and more quantitative material-specific imaging than conventional CT. Research includes scanning human volunteers for all major indications of CT, including neuro, chest, cardiac, body, and musculoskeletal imaging, to demonstrate the benefits of PCCT. Additional projects seek to maximize the spatial and spectral information collected by the scanner to further improve image quality, enabling applications such as identifying biomarkers for knee health.