IEEE NPSS Awards

These awards were given during the 2006 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.

The 2006 Richard F. Shea Distinguished Member Award

Dr. Alberta M. Dawson Larsen, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA

For outstanding service to the IEEE, NPSS, as secretary for 9 years, and numerous other positions of importance, including Chairman, Fusion Technology Committee, Newsletter Editor and Yearbook co-editor.


The 2006 Radiation Instrumentation Early Career Award

Dr. L. Eric Smith, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

For advancing radiation transport and analysis methods in homeland security scenarios, and for development of multicoincidence detection methods for trace radionuclide analysis.


Certificates of Outstanding Contributions to the field of Nuclear Radiation Measurements

Dr. Claudio Piemonte, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Italy
Dr. Ed McKigney, LANL, USA
Dr. Werner Riegler, CERN, Switzerland
Dr. Gabriella Carini, BNL, USA


The 2006 Edward J. Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award

Dr. Ronald Jaszczak, Duke University Medical Center, USA

For important and sustained lifetime contributions to nuclear and medical imaging sciences, particularly single-photon emission computed tomography.


The 2006 Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award

Dr. Suleman Surti, University of Pennsylvania, USA

For contributions to PET instrumentation design and quantification of imaging performance


RTSD Scientist Award

Prof. Michael Schieber, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

For his contributions leading to the development of room-temperature semiconductor gamma and neutron detectors


NPSS Student Paper Awards

NSS

Best Papers: Rafael Ballabriga, (NM1-6), CERN, Switzerland
  Jonathan Britton, (N03-4), University of Tennessee, USA
Runner-up: Markus Stockner, (N30-274), CERN, Switzerland

MIC

Best Papers: Peter D. Olcott, (M06-217), Stanford University, USA
  Martin Judenhofer, (M08-6), University of Tuebingen, Germany
  Mingwu Jin, (M14-432), Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Runners-up: Aarti Kriplani, (M14-312), Stony Brook University, USA
  Feng Qiao, (M11-319), Rice University, USA

 

NSS-MIC Trainee Awards

NSS

Monica Abella Madrid
Jonathan Britton University of Tennessee
Stefano Caccia Milan
Zhi Deng Tsinghua University, China
Isabella Farella CNR, Italy
Marek Flaska NS&T Divn, Oak Ridge
Alberto Gola Politecnico di Milano
Valerio Grassi Milan University, Italy
Susanna Guatelli CERN
Gabriela Hoff Pontifical Catholic University, Brazil
Naoki Kawacki JAEA, Japan
John Kwong Case Western Reserve University
Gati Lolap Clemson University
Barbara Mascialino CERN
Kivanc Nurdan Siegen University
Kirill Pushkin ITEP, Moscow
Sepideh Shokouhi Vanderbilt University
Markos Stockner CERN
Wolfgang Waltenberger IHEP, Austria
Qingguo Xie University of Chicago
Valentina Zampichelli CERN
Marta Gaia Zanchi Stanford University

MIC

Sangtae Ahn University of Southern California
Andriy Andreyev University Hospital-Brussels
M Lahcen Arhjoul University of Sherbrooke
Costas D. Arvanitis University College London
Mohamad Reza Ay Geneva University Hospital
Frederic Bataille Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot
Philippe Berard University of Sherbrooke
Junguo Bian University of Chicago
Spencer Bowen University of California-Davis
Ciprian Catana University of California-Davis
Si Chen Johns Hopkins University
Yu Chen University of Massachusetts
Ju-Chieh (Kevin) Cheng University of British Columbia
Sanghee Cho University of Southern California
Seungryong Cho University of Chicago
Spencer Cutler Duke University
Frank Dennerlein University of Utah
Nicole Detorie University of California-Los Angeles
Katie Dinelle University of British Columbia
Yun Dong University of Chicago
Tyler Dumouchel University of Ottawa
Angela Foudray Stanford University
Eric Zheng Fu Vanderbilt University
Lin Fu University of California-Davis
Ashvin George University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jennifer Griffiths University College London
Yannick Grondin Universite Joseph Fourier
Bastien Guerin Harvard University
Frezghi Habte Stanford University
Xin He Johns Hopkins University
Elena Heckathorne University of California-Los Angeles
Matthias Hofmann Universitatsklinikum Tuebingen
Stefan Hoppe Universitat of Erlangen-Nurnberg
Qiu Huang University of Utah
Thomas Humphries Simon Fraser University
Shridhar Jayanthi University of Pennsylvania
Mingwu Jin Illinois Institute of Technology
Fengfeng Jing University of Utah
Martin Judenhofer Universitatsklinikum Tuebingen
Patricia Judy University of Virginia
Anu Juslin Tampere University of Technology
Haval Kadhem University of Surrey
Anuj Kapadia Duke University
Daniel Keesing Washington University
Martin King University of Chicago
Ran Klein University of Ottawa
Thomas Koesters Universitat Muenster
Aarti Kriplani Stony Brook University
Srilalan Krishnamoorthy Stony Brook University
Frederic Lamare INSERM
Dianne Lee Stony Brook University
Catherine Lemmens KULeuven
Liang Li Tsinghua University
Zheng (Jeff) Li University of Southern California
Hongjie Liang University of California-Davis
Jinxiu Liao University of California-Davis
Tao Ling University of Washington
Shaoying Liu McMaster University
Gabriela Llosa University of Pisa
Mireille Lortie University of Ottawa
Jane Mackewn King's College London
Priti Madhav Duke University
Maria-Jose Martinez Canet Technischen Universitat Munchen
Monica Vieira Martins Universidade de Lisboa
Benjamin McDonald Vanderbilt University
Byung Jun Min Sungkyunkwan University
Greta S. P. Mok Johns Hopkins University
Cibeles Mora Universidad de Valencia
Sheruna Naidoo University of Sydney
May Oehler University of Applied Sciences Koblenz
Peter Olcott Stanford University
Debashish Pal Washington University
Catherine M. Pepin University of Sherbrooke
Guillem Pratx Stanford University
Jianguo Qian College of William and Mary
Feng Qiao University of Texas-MDAMC
Ananth Ravi Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center
Daniel Rodriguez Gutierrez University of Surrey
Krishnendu Saha University of Missouri-Columbia
Maraike Schellmann Universitat Muenster
Gregory Shakirin Technische Universitat Dresden
Amy Sharma Duke University
Hugo Shi University of Michigan
Tae Yong Song Sungkyunkwan University
Sudeepti Southekal Stony Brook University
Alexander Stolin University of Virginia
Florent Sureau Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot
Jing Tang Johns Hopkins University
Qiulin Tang University of Utah
Michel Tohme University of California-Davis
Irene Torres-Espallardo Technischen Universitat Munchen
Perrine Tylski Institut Gustave-Roussy
Eric Vandervoort University of British Columbia
Rajesh Venkataraman University of Utah
Nicolas Viscogliosi University of Sherbrooke
Kathleen Vunckx KULeuven
Guobao Wang University of California-Davis
Chirstian Wietholt National Health Research Institute
Yibao Wu University of California-Davis
Dan Xia University of Chicago
Yan Yan University of Utah
Johannes Zeintl Universitat of Erlangen-Nurnberg
Bin Zhang University of Utah
Lei Zhu Stanford University