Acknowledgments

The 2007 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC) is made possible through the sponsorship of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS), and through the support and generosity of the cooperating institutions and organizations listed on the inside front cover. We especially thank our Asian colleagues for showing their strong support of this conference through their participation as authors and attendees. To organize a conference of this magnitude and duration requires that all members of the conference committee demonstrate team spirit, hard work, compromise, and personal sacrifice. We are truly fortunate to have worked with an outstanding group of volunteers that displayed these critically important attributes. We extend our heartfelt thanks to all of the members of the committee. It is nearly impossible to articulate how deeply and sincerely we appreciate their efforts. These volunteers devoted countless hours and immense effort in ensuring that all conference tasks were completed in a timely manner, and that all conference components would come together to form a scientifically rewarding, technically synergistic, and socially enjoyable experience for the attendees. Perhaps most importantly, we express our gratitude to the authors and co-authors for electing to submit the results of their intellectual pursuits to the 2007 NSS/MIC. Without their contributions, and the participation of the all of the attendees, this conference would never exist. It has been exciting to see how this meeting has grown over the years, and how it has become a premier international conference in the field. We are confident that our NPSS colleagues will continue to maintain and enhance this tradition in the future.

Benjamin M.W. Tsui, General Chair

Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS)

Yasuo Arai, KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization. Japan
Dan Archer, ORNL, USA
Chuck L. Britton, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
Paolo Calafiura, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
William W Craig, LLNL, USA
Lorenzo Fabris, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Stephan Friedrich, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Marat I Gataullin, California Institute of Technology, USA
Christoph J. Ilgner, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and University of Dortmund, Switzerland
Richard C Lanza, MIT, USA
Zheng Li, Brookhaven National Lab, USA
Jim Lund, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Douglas S. McGregor, Kansas State University, USA
Joseph A Mead, Brookhaven National Lab, USA
Chuck Melcher, University of Tennessee, USA
Giancarlo Nebbia, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
Rainer W Novotny, 2nd Physics Institute, University Giessen, Germany
Edward J O’Brien, BNL, USA
Anthony J. Peurrung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Maria Grazia Pia, INFN Genova, Italy
Martin L Purschke, Brookhaven National Lab, USA
Valerio Re, Università di Bergamo, Italy
Fabio Sauli, INFN-Trieste and CERN, Switzerland
D Peter Siddons, National Synchrotron Light Source, USA
Graham C Smith, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Hiroyasu Tajima, SLAC, USA
Maxim P. Titov, CEA Saclay, DAPNIA, France
Norbert N Wermes, Bonn University, Germany
Liyuan Zhang, California Institute of Technology, USA
Ren-yuan Zhu, California Institute of Technology, USA
Klaus P Ziock, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

REVIEWERS

John N Aarsvold, Emory Universtiy & Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, USA
Marcello Abbrescia, University of Bari, Italy
Roberto Accorsi, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
Felix A. Aharonian, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
Nigel Allinson, University of Sheffield, U.K.
Alberto Aloisio, University of Naples ‘Federico II’ and I.N.F.N., Italy
George Alverson, Northeastern Univ., USA
Katsuya Amako, KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan
Giovanni Ambrosi, INFN Sezione di Perugia Italy, Italy
Mark Amman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Ladislav Andricek, MPI fuer Physik, Munich, Germany
Matteo M. Angarano, CAEN - Viareggio, Italy
Yasuo Arai, KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan
Henrique Araujo, Imperial College London
Pedro Arce, CIEMAT, Spain
Dan Archer, ORNL, USA
Tsukasa Aso, Toyama National College of Maritime Technology, Japan
Rachel M Avramidou, CERN, Switzerland
Chuanyong Bai, Digirad Corporation, USA
Henry R Band, U. of Wisconsin, USA
Brad Barber, University of Arizona, USA
Marcia Begalli, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil
Adam Bernstein, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Jeffrey C Blackwell, Kansas State University, USA
Steven Boggs, University of California Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, USA
Christian Bohm, University of Stockholm, Department of Physics, Sweden
Aleksey E Bolotnikov, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Biays Bowerman, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Uwe Bratzler, CERN and TMU, Switzerland
Chuck L. Britton, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
Ian C Brock, Bonn University, Germany
Christian Broennimann, Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
Arnold Burger, Fisk University, USA
Morgan T Burks, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Massimo L. Caccia, Università dell’Insubria, Italy
Mar Capeans, CERN, Switzerland
Alessandro Cardini, INFN Sezione di Cagliari, Italy
Michael E Casey, Siemens Medical Solutions, USA
Gabriella Catanesi, INFN Bari, Italy
Anna Cavallini, Department of Physics University of Bologna, Italy
Arion F Chatziioannou, UCLA Crump Institute, USA
Stephane Chauvie, Santa Croce e Carle Hospital, Italy
Giorgio Chiarelli, INFN Sez. di Pisa, Italy
Woon-Seng Choong, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Finn Christensen, Danish National Space Center, Denmark
David Christian, Fermilab, USA
Radovan Chytracek, CERN, Switzerland
Mauro Citterio, INFN - Milano, Italy
Carlo Civinini, INFN-Firenze, Italy
Neal Clinthorne, University of Michigan, USA
David J.A. Cockerill, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom
Anna Colaleo, INFN-Bari and CERN, France
Juan I. Collar, Enrico Fermi Institute, USA
W. Rick Cook, California Institute of Technology, USA
Ron G Cooper, SNS, USA
Gloria Corti, CERN, Switzerland
Cinzia Da Via, University of Manchester /CERN, Switzerland
Magnus Dahlbom, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, USA
Gian Franco Dalla Betta, University of Trento, Italy
Mohammad Dawood, University of Münster, Germany
Steven a Dazeley, LLNL, USA
Alessandro De Angelis, Udine University and INFN, Italy
Riccardo de Asmundis, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Napoli, Italy
Christophe de LA TAILLE, LAL Orsay/ IN2P3 / CNRS, France
Alberto del Guerra, University of Pisa, Italy
Stephen E Derenzo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Anna Di ciaccio, university of roma tor vergata, Italy
Hans Dijkstra, CERN, Switzerland
Guenther Dissertori, Institute for Particle Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Wojciech Dominik, Warsaw University, Poland
Pieter Dorenbos, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Winicjusz Drozdowski, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Dirk Duellmann, CERN, Switzerland
Paula Eerola, Lund University, Sweden
John C. Engdahl, Bradley University, USA
Ralf Engels, FZ-Juelich, Germany
Wolfram Erdmann, PSI, Switzerland
M. Nance Ericson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Lars A Eriksson, Siemens Medical Solutions, Molecular Imaging, USA
Lorenzo Fabris, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Riccardo Fantechi, INFN - Sezione di Pisa, Italy
Philippe Farthouat, CERN, Switzerland
Alessandro Ferretti, Torino University and INFN, Italy
Fernando Ferroni, Universita’ di Roma La Sapienza & INFN Roma, Italy
Angela M K Foudray, Stanford University, USA
Stephan Friedrich, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Rudolf Fruehwirth, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Chikara Fukunaga, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Tobias Funk, UCSF, USA
Lars R Furenlid, University of Arizona, USA
Igor A Gaponenko, LBNL, USA
Marat I Gataullin, California Institute of Technology, USA
Evangelos N. Gazis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Thomas Glanzman, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA
Natalia Golnik, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Faustino Gomez Rodriguez, University of Santiago, Spain
Heinz Graafsma, DESY, Germany
Fabiana Gramegna, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro - I.N.F.N., Italy
Francesco Grancagnolo, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
Ingrid-Maria Gregor, DESY, Germany
Corinne J Groiselle, EADS / SODERN, France
Joern Grosse-Knetter, Univertsitaet Bonn, Germany
Chiara Guazzoni, Politecnico di Milano and INFN, Italy
Paul L. Gueye, Hampton University, USA
Frezghi Habte, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Michael Hagelstein, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Germany
Bruce Hasegawa, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Eric S Hazen, Boston University, USA
Zhong He, The University of Michigan, USA
Erik H.M. Heijne, CERN, Switzerland
Richard D Hichwa, University of Iowa, USA
Albrecht Hofstaetter, I. Physics Institute, University Giessen, Germany
Alexander S Howard, CERN, Switzerland
Jennifer S Huber, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
Giuseppe Iaselli, Bari University, Italy
Hirokazu Ikeda, ISAS, JAXA, Japan
Christoph J. Ilgner, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and University of Dortmund, Switzerland
Sebastien L Incerti, IN2P3 / CNRS, France
Pier Giorgio Innocenti, CERN, Switzerland
Jan S. Iwanczyk, Photon Imaging, Inc., USA
Hiroyuki Iwasaki, KEK, Japan
Ralph B. James, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Martin Janecek, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Floris P Jansen, GE Research, USA
Robert P. Johnson, Univeristy of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Sachin S Junnarkar, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA,
Jan Kaplon, CERN, Switzerland
Alireza Kargar, Kansas State University, USA
Dean Karlen, University of Victoria, Canada
Yong-Kyun Kim, Hanyang University, South Korea
Juergen Knobloch, CERN, Switzerland
Jason Koglin, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, USA
Tatsumi Koi, SLAC, USA
Takahiko Kondo, KEK, Japan
Mikhail Korjik, RINP, Minsk, Belarus
Samo Korpar, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Danek Kotlinski, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Peter Krizan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Reiner Krücken, Technische Universität München, Germany
Marcel Kunze, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany
Simon W Kwan, Fermilab, USA
Simon E Labov, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Massimo Lamanna, CERN IT Division, Switzerland
Richard C Lanza, MIT, USA
Wim T.L.P. Lavrijsen, LBNL, USA
Patrick JL Le Du, CEA, Saclay, France
James W LeBlanc, GE Research, USA
Roger Lecomte, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Paul R Lecoq, CERN, Switzerland
Charles Leggett, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Craig S. Levin, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Zheng Li, Brookhaven National Lab, USA
Dietrich Liko, CERN & HEPHY Vienna, Austria
Ronald J Lipton, Fermilab, USA
Flavio Loddo, INFN Bari, Italy
Herbert Loehner, KVI, University Groningen, Netherlands
Francesco Longo, Department of Physics, University of Trieste and INFN, Trieste, Italy
Jens Ludwig, Freiburg University, Germany
Kelvin G Lynn, Washington State University, USA
Frank E Maas, Institut de Physique Nucleaire, Orsay, France
Grzegorz Madejski, KIPAC/SLAC, USA
Giampiero Mancinelli, Univ. of Cincinnati, USA
Emanuele Mandelli, Altasens Inc., USA
Kenneth L Matthews II, Louisiana State University, USA
Giovanni Mazza, INFN sez. di Torino, Italy
Ryan McLean, California Institute of Technology, USA
Walter J McNeil, Kansas State University, SMART Lab, USA
Joseph A Mead, Brookhaven National Lab, USA
Chuck Melcher, University of Tennessee, USA
Patricia PM Mendez Lorenzo, CERN, Switzerland
Satoshi Mihara, ICEPP-Univ. Tokyo, Japan
Marko Mikuz, Univ. Ljubljana / Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Teodor I. Milenov, Institute of Solid State Physics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Oleg V Missevitch, Institute for Nuclear Problems, Minsk, Belarus
Gregory S Mitchell, UC Davis, USA
Guenakh Mitselmakher, University of Florida, USA
Michael Moll, CERN, Switzerland
Matt A Monetti, Environmental Measurements Laboratory, USA
Christian Morel, CPPM, Aix-Marseille II University, France
William W. Moses, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Marek Moszynski, Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Poland
Rick Moyers, Y12, USA
Anke-Susanne Mueller, Institute for Synchrotron Radiation, Forschungzentrum Karlsruhe, Germany
Koichi Murakami, KEK, Japan
Hideo Murayama, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Japan
James B Murphy, BNL,
Alfredo Musso, INFN-Torino, Italy
Vivek V Nagarkar, RMD, Inc., USA
Eugenio Nappi, INFN Sezione di Bari, Italy
Filippo Nava, Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Martin Nikl, Institute of Physics of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Rainer W Novotny, 2nd Physics Institute, University Giessen, Germany
Robert E Nutt, Siemens Medical Solutions USA
Horst G. Oberlack, MPI fuer Physik Munich, Germany
John N Oliver, Harvard University - Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, USA
Richard W Olsen, Sandia, USA
Thomas Otto, Radiation Protection Group, SC-RP, CERN, Switzerland
Alessandro Paccagnella, DEI - Università di Padova, Italy
Guy Paic, Instituto de ciencias nucleares UNAM, Mexico
Xiaochuan Pan, The University of Chicago, USA
Luciano Pandola, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy
Roberto Pani, University of Rome, Italy
Ioannis Papadopoulos, CERN, Switzerland
Mark Pearce, Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, KTH, Sweden
Anna Peisert, CERN, Switzerland
Vladimir D Peskov, CERN, Switzerland
Klaus J. Peters, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
Roberto Petti, CERN, Switzerland
Andreas Pfeiffer, CERN, Switzerland
Maria Grazia Pia, INFN Genova, Italy
Michela Piergentili, INFN Genova, Italy
Uwe K Pietrzyk, Institute of Medicine - FZ Juelich, Germany
Michael J Pivovaroff, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Witold Pokorski, CERN, Switzerland
Stanislav Pospisil, Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Michela Prest, universita` dell’Insubria e INFN Milano Bicocca, Italy
Martin L Purschke, Brookhaven National Lab, USA
Francesco Quarati, European Space Agency, Science Payload and Advanced Concepts Office, Netherlands
Francisco Javier Ramírez-Jiménez, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico
Lodovico Ratti, University of Pavia, Italy
Valerio Re, Università di Bergamo, Italy
Pavel Rehak, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Angelo Rivetti, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - INFN - Sezione di Torino, Italy
Pedro Rodrigues, LIP, Portugal
Tilman Rohe, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
Anatoli Romaniouk, CERN, Swaziland
Leszek Ropelewski, CERN, Switzerland
Anatoly B Rosenfeld, Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Australia
Gary J Royle, University College London, United Kingdom
Roger W Rusack, The University of Minnesota, USA
Paolo Russo, Università di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, & INFN Napoli, Italy
Hartmut F.-W. Sadrozinski, Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Univ. of California Santa Cruz, USA
Karel Safarik, CERN, Switzerland
Saleem Salaymeh, SRNL USA,
Takashi Sasaki, KEK, Japan
Burkhard Schmidt, CERN, Switzerland
Silvia Schuh, CERN, Switzerland
Andreas S. Schwarz, DESY, Germany
Carolyn E. Seifert, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Yiping Shao, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Lev Shekhtman, Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics, Russian Federation
Asher Shor, Soreq NRC, Israel
J. Kenneth Shultis, Kansas State University, USA
Eric Smith, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Graham C Smith, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Helmuth Spieler, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, USA
Michael R Squillante, Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., USA
David Squire, DTRA, USA
Maya Stavrianakou, CERN, Switzerland
Roberto Stroili, INFN Padova, Italy
David Strom, Department of physics, USA
Lothar W. J. Strueder, MPI - Semiconductor Lab, Germany
Bjarne Stugu, Univ. Bergen, Norway
Takayuki Sumiyoshi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Bernd Surrow, MIT, USA
Suleman Surti, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Piotr Szupryczynski, University of Tennessee, USA
Piotr Szymanski, Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies Otwock-Swierk, Poland
Hiroyasu Tajima, SLAC, USA
Tadyuki Takahashi, ISAS/JAXA, Japan
Hui Tan, XIA LLC, USA
Manobu Tanaka, KEK IPNS, Japan
Al C. Thompson, LBL, USA
Craig S Tindall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Maxim P. Titov, CEA Saclay, DAPNIA, France
Andrew Todd-Pokropek, University College London, United Kingdom
Martin P Tornai, Duke University Medical Center, USA
Francois Touchard, University of Aix-Marseille II & CPPM/CNRS/IN2P3, France
Andreia M A Trindade, LIP - Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas, Portugal
Jan Troska, CERN, Switzerland
Michela C.A. Uslenghi, INAF/Iasf-Milano, Italy
John D Valentine, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Vladivoj Valkovic, Institute Ruder Boskovic, Croatia
Erik Vallazza, INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Italy
Richard Van Berg, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Harry van der Graaf, NIKHEF, Netherlands
Walter K Van Doninck, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Belgium, France
Juan José Vaquero, Unidad de Medicina y Cirugía Experimental, Hospital GU Gregorio Marañón, Spain
Gary S Varner, Univ. of Hawaii, USA
Paul Vaska, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Rob Veenhof, IST Portugal and CERN, Switzerland
Jaap J Velthuis, Bristol University, United Kingdom
Dimitris Visvikis, U650 INSERM, France
Klaus W Wacker, University of Dortmund, Germany
Douglas J Wagenaar, Gamma Medica-Ideas, Inc., USA
Wolfgang Waltenberger, Hephy Vienna, Austria
Glen A Warren, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Gordon T. Watts, University of Washington, USA
Andrew G Weisenberger, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, USA
Andy P White, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Richard Wigmans, Texas Tech University, USA
Richard Wilkinson, California Institute of Technology, USA
Crispin Williams, INFN Bologna, Italy
Kenneth H Wong, Georgetown University, USA
Mitchell Woodring, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Craig L Woody, Brookhaven National Lab, USA
Claudia-Elisabeth Wulz, Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Austria
Seiichi Yamamoto, Kobe City College of Technology, Japan
Julia V. Yarba, Fermilab, USA
John Young, Savannah River National Laboratory, USA
Bo Yu, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Christos Zamantzas, CERN, Switzerland
Guido F Zavattini, University of Ferrara, Italy,
Liyuan Zhang, California Institute of Technology, USA
Zhong Zhong, BNL, USA
Ren-yuan Zhu, California Institute of Technology, USA
Peter Zielinski, DTRA, USA
Robert E Zimmerman, Harvard Medical Sch Brigham & Women’s H. Radiology, USA

Medical Imaging Conference (MIC)

ASSISTANT CHAIRS

Arion F. Chatziioannou, UCLA Crump Institute, USA
Yong Du, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Xin He, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Sung-Cheng (Henry) Huang, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, USA
Arman Rahmim, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Christiaan Schiepers, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, USA
Katsuyuki Taguchi, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Yuchuan Wang, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Jingyan Xu, Johns Hopkins University, USA

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Hiroyuki Kudo, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Michel Defrise, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Ronald J. Jaszczak, Duke University Medical Center, USA
Xiaochuan Pan, The University of Chicago, USA
Stephen C. Moore, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, USA
Charles W. Stearns, GE Healthcare, USA
Jeff Fessler, The University of Michigan, USA
Michael A. King, Univ of Mass Med School, USA
Robert S. Miyaoka, University of Washington, USA
Tom K. Lewellen, University of Washington, USA
Ramsey D. Badawi, UC Davis Medical Center, USA
Lars R. Furenlid, University of Arizona, USA
Frederic Noo, University of Utah Dept of Radiology, USA
Gengsheng Lawrence Zeng, University of Utah, USA
Bruce Hasegawa, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Howard C. Gifford, Univ Mass Medical School, USA
John N. Aarsvold, Emory Universtiy & Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, USA
Jinyi Qi, University of California, Davis, USA
William W. Moses, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Marie Foley Kijewski, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Freek J. Beekman, University Medical Center, Netherlands
Ronald H. Huesman, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, USA
Anna M. Celler, Department of Radiology University of British Columbia, Canada
Katsuyuki Taguchi, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Simon R. Cherry, University of California-Davis, USA
Steven R. Meikle, University of Sydney, Australia
Marc Kachelriess, Institute of Medical Physics (IMP), Germany
Grant T. Gullberg, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Irene Buvat, U678 INSERM, France
Jiang Hsieh, GE Healthcare, USA
Craig S. Levin, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Brian F. Hutton, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, UCL, London, USA
Bernard Bendriem, Siemens Molecular Imaging, USA
Margaret E. Daube-Witherspoon, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dan J. Kadrmas, University of Utah, USA
Sibylle I. Ziegler, Nuklearmedizin Klinikum rechts der Isar der TU München, Germany
Joel S. Karp, University of Pennsylvania, USA

REVIEWERS

John N. Aarsvold, Emory Universtiy & Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, USA
Stephen S. Adler, TelaCode, LLC, USA
Pablo Aguiar, Universitat de Barcelona. Espanya, Spain
Adam M. Alessio, University of Washington, USA
Evren Asma, General Electric Global Research, USA
Ramsey D. Badawi, UC Davis Medical Center, USA
Bing Bai, Siemens Molecular Imaging, USA
Chuanyong Bai, Digirad Corporation, USA
Girish Bal, GE Global Research, USA
Brad Barber, University of Arizona, USA
Freek J. Beekman, University Medical Center, USA
Bernard Bendriem, Siemens Molecular Imaging, USA
M’hamed Bentourkia, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Christian Bohm, University of Stockholm, Department of Physics, Sweden
Jovan G. Brankov, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Yoram Bresler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Aaron B. Brill, Vanderbilt University, USA
Arnold Burger, Fisk University, USA
Irene Buvat, U678 INSERM, France
Charles L. Byrne, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Massimo L. Caccia, Università dell’Insubria, Italy
Jonathan P. J. Carney, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Richard E. Carson, Yale University, USA
James A. Case, Cardiovascular Imaging Technologies, USA
Michael E. Casey, Siemens Medical Solutions, USA
Anna Cavallini, Department of Physics University of Bologna, Italy
Anna M. Celler, Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Canada
Arion F. Chatziioannou, UCLA Crump Institute, USA
Stephane Chauvie, Santa Croce e Carle Hospital, Italy
Chin-Tu Chen, The University of Chicago, USA
Simon R. Cherry, University of California-Davis, USA
Garry Chinn, Stanford School of Medicine, USA
Finn Christensen, Danish National Space Center, Denmark
Rolf Clackdoyle, Laboratoire Hubert Curien, CNRS, St. Etienne, France
Neal Clinthorne, University of Michigan, USA
James G. Colsher, GE Healthcare, USA
Claude Comtat, Frederic Joliot Hospital Facility, French Atomic Energy Commission, France
Maurizio Conti, Siemens, USA
John A. Correia, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA
Albert Cot, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Magnus Dahlbom, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, USA
Yves D’Asseler, MEDISIP-UGent, Belgium
Margaret E. Daube-Witherspoon, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Mohammad Dawood, University of Münster, Germany
Hugo W.A.M. de Jong, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
Bruno De Man, GE Research, USA
Michel Defrise, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Robert deKemp, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Canada
Alberto del Guerra, University of Pisa, Italy
Stephen E. Derenzo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Philippe Després, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Canada
Yuni K. Dewaraja, University of Michigan, USA
Frank P. DiFilippo, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA
Avraham Dilmanian, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Yong Du, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, USA
Georges N. El Fakhri, Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, USA
John C. Engdahl, Bradley University, USA
Ralf Engels, FZ-Juelich, Germany, Germany
Lars A. Eriksson, Siemens Medical Solutions, Molecular Imaging, USA
Kjell Erlandsson, University College London, United Kingdom
Tracy Faber, Emory University, USA
Troy H. Farncombe, Hamilton Health Sciences / McMaster University, Canada
Jeff Fessler, The University of Michigan, USA
Angela M. K. Foudray, Stanford University, USA
Richard Freifelder, University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Radiology, USA
Eric C. Frey, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Tobias Funk, UCSF, USA
Lars R. Furenlid, University of Arizona, USA
Daniel Gagnon, Philips Medical Systems Inc., USA
Brandon D. Gallas, FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health, USA
Howard C. Gifford, Univ Mass Medical School, USA
David R. Gilland, University of Florida, USA
Karen L. Gilland, Johns Hopkins Medical Insitutes, USA
Gene R. Gindi, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA
Shaun S. Gleason, Siemens Medical Solutions, Inc., USA
Stephen J. Glick, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
Andrew L. Goertzen, University of Manitoba, Canada
Heinz Graafsma, DESY, Germany
Michael V. Green, Molecular Imaging Program/NIH, USA
Grant T. Gullberg, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Frezghi Habte, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Robert L. Harrison, University of Washington, Germany
Bruce Hasegawa, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Tomoyuki Hasegawa, Allied Health Sciences, Kitasato University, Japan
Xin He, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Zhong He, The University of Michigan, USA
Hans Herzog, Institute of Medicine, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Richard D. Hichwa, University of Iowa, USA
Jiang Hsieh, GE Healthcare, USA
Sung-Cheng (Henry) Huang, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, USA
Jennifer S. Huber, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
Ronald H. Huesman, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, USA
James W. Hugg, GE Global Research, USA
Brian F. Hutton, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, UCL, London, United Kingdom
Joseph R. Incandela, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Marijana Ivanovic, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Jan S. Iwanczyk, Photon Imaging, Inc., USA
Ralph B. James, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Martin Janecek, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Floris P. Jansen, GE Research, USA
Ronald J. Jaszczak, Duke University Medical Center, USA
Marc Kachelriess, Institute of Medical Physics (IMP), Germany
Dan J. Kadrmas, University of Utah, USA
Chien-Min Kao, The University of Chicago, USA
Joel S. Karp, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Marie Foley Kijewski, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Paul E. Kinahan, University of Washington, USA
Michael A. King, Univ of Mass Med School, USA
Hiroyuki Kudo, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Patrick Jean La Riviere, Dept. of Radiology, The University of Chicago, USA
Richard Laforest, Washington University, School of Medicine, USA
David S. Lalush, North Carolina State University, USA
Richard C. Lanza, MIT, USA
Carole Lartizien, CREATIS- CNRS UMR5220, France
Patrick J.L. Le Du, CEA, Saclay, France
James W. LeBlanc, GE Research, USA
Roger Lecomte, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Paul R. Lecoq, CERN, Switzerland
Craig S. Levin, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Tom K. Lewellen, University of Washington, USA
Robert M. Lewitt, Univ of Pennsylvania, Dept of Radiology, USA
Lihong Li, City University of New York, USA
Jerome Z. Liang, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Michael Ljungberg, Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Sweden
Jens Ludwig, Freiburg University, Germany
Lawrence R. MacDonald, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Mark T. Madsen, University of Iowa, USA
Paul K. Marsden, King’s College London, England, United Kingdom
Samuel Matej, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Kenneth L. Matthews II, Louisiana State University, USA
Steven R. Meikle, University of Sydney, Australia
Chuck Melcher, University of Tennessee, USA
Scott D. Metzler, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Gregory S. Mitchell, UC Davis, USA
Robert S. Miyaoka, University of Washington, USA
Stephen C. Moore, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, USA
Christian Morel, CPPM, Aix-Marseille II University, France
William W. Moses, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Marek Moszynski, Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Poland
Nobutoku Motomura, Toshiba Medical Systems, Japan
Gerd Muehllehner, retired, USA
Hideo Murayama, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Japan
Raymond F. Muzic, Jr., Case Western Reserve University, USA
Vivek V. Nagarkar, RMD, Inc., USA
Deepa Narayanan, Naviscan PET Systems, Inc, USA
Frederic Noo, University of Utah, Dept of Radiology, USA
Robert E. Nutt, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, USA
Johan L.J. Nuyts, K.U.Leuven, Belgium, Belgium
Bill O’Brien-Penney, University of Chicago, USA
Michael K. O’Connor, Mayo Clinic, USA
Koichi Ogawa, Hosei University, Faculty of Engineering, Japan
Graeme J. O’Keefe, Centre for PET, Austin Health, Australia
Arne M. Paans, University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands
Xiaochuan Pan, The University of Chicago, USA
Roberto Pani, University of Rome, Italy
Sang-June Park, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Todd E. Peterson, Vanderbilt University, USA
Maria Grazia Pia, INFN Genova, Italy, Italy
Bernd J. Pichler, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Uwe K. Pietrzyk, Institute of Medicine - FZ Juelich, Germany
Stanislav Pospisil, Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
P. Hendrik Pretorius, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
Jinyi Qi, University of California, Davis, USA
Magdalena Rafecas, Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) /Universidad de Valencia, Spain
Arman Rahmim, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Francisco Javier Ramírez-Jiménez, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico
Raymond Raylman, Dept of Radiology/West Virginia University, USA
Andrew J. Reader, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Bryan W. Reutter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Anatoly B. Rosenfeld, Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Australia
Steven G. Ross, GE Healthcare, USA
Gary J. Royle, University College London, United Kingdom
Paolo Russo, Università di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, & INFN Napoli, Italy
Janet R. Saffer, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
Takashi Sasaki, KEK, Japan
Dennis R. Schaart, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Christiaan Schiepers, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, USA
David J. Schlyer, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Nils U. Schramm, Research Center Juelich, Germany
William P. Segars, Duke University, USA
Tony Seibert, UC Davis, USA
Carolyn E. Seifert, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Lingxiong Shao, Philips Medical Systems, USA
Yiping Shao, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Asher Shor, Soreq NRC, Israel
Michael D. Silver, TMRU, USA
Arkadiusz Sitek, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Anne M. Smith, Siemens Preclinical Solutions, USA
Mark F. Smith, University of Maryland Medical School, USA
Edward J. Soares, Holy Cross College, USA
Vesna Sossi, University of British Columbia, Canada
Terry J. Spinks, Imanet, General Electric, United Kingdom
Michael R. Squillante, Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., USA
Maya Stavrianakou, CERN, Switzerland
Charles W. Stearns, GE Healthcare, USA
Sven-Erik Strand, Lund University, Sweden, Sweden
Suleman Surti, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Katsuyuki Taguchi, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Yuan-Chuan Tai, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Richard Taschereau, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Charles R. Tenney, Fresno State University, USA
Kris Thielemans, Senior Researcher, Hammersmith Imanet, United Kingdom
Andrew Todd-Pokropek, University College London, United Kingdom
Martin P. Tornai, Duke University Medical Center, USA
David W. Townsend, Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Benjamin M. W. Tsui, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Timothy G. Turkington, Duke University Medical Center, USA
Stefaan Vandenberghe, Ghent University, Belgium
Juan José Vaquero, Unidad de Medicina y Cirugía Experimental, Hospital GU Gregorio Marañón, Spain
Paul Vaska, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Dimitris Visvikis, U650 INSERM, France
Douglas J. Wagenaar, Gamma Medica-Ideas, Inc., USA
Yuchuan Wang, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, USA
Charles C. Watson, Siemens Medical Solutions Molecular Imaging, USA
Simone Weber, Central Institute for Electronics, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Irving N. Weinberg, Fast Imaging Company, USA
Andrew G. Weisenberger, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, USA
Andy Welch, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Glenn Wells, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Canada
Kevin Wells, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Miles N. Wernick, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Mark B. Williams, University of Virginia, USA
Kenneth H. Wong, Georgetown University, USA
Craig L. Woody, Brookhaven National Lab, USA
Hsiao-Ming Wu, Dept. of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology/University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Jingyan Xu, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Seiichi Yamamoto, Kobe City College of Technology, Japan
Rutao Yao, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Habib Zaidi, Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland
Guido F. Zavattini, University of Ferrara, Italy
Gengsheng Lawrence Zeng, University of Utah, USA
Sibylle I. Ziegler, Nuklearmedizin Klinikum rechts der Isar der TU München, Germany
Karl Ziemons, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH / Central Institute for Electronics, Germany
Robert E. Zimmerman, Harvard Medical Sch Brigham & Women’s H Radiology, USA
George Zubal, Institute for NeuroDegenerative Disorders, USA

Asian-Pacific Program Committee

Benjamin M. W. Tsui
Ren-Yuan Zhu
Eric C. Frey
Craig Woody
Uwe Bratzler

Conference Information and Promotion (CIP) Committee

Ingrid-Maria Gregor, DESY, Germany (CIP Chair)
Rachel Avramidou, NTUA and CERN, Greece
Johannes M. Bauer, University of Mississippi, USA
Christian Bohm, University of Stockholm, Sweden
Uwe Bratzler, CERN and TMU, Switzerland
Sudeep Chatterij, University of Delhi and CERN, India
Riccardo de Asmundis, INFN Napoli, Italy
Alberto Del Guerra, INFN Pisa, Italy
Pierre Delpierre, IN2P3, France
Jean-Pierre Dufey, CERN, Switzerland
Ralf Engels, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Christer Fröjdh, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden
Chikara Fukunaga, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Evangelos Gazis, NTU Athens, Greece
Roger Gearhart, SLAC, USA
Erik Heijne, CERN, Switzerland
Christoph Ilgner, CERN and University of Dortmund, Switzerland
Pier Giorgio Innocenti, CERN, Switzerland
Hiroyuki Iwasaki, KEK, Japan
Susanne Kuehn, University of Freiburg, Germany
Takahiko Kondo, KEK, Japan
Patrick Le Du, CEA Saclay, France
Dariusz Makowski, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Dora Merelli, CEA Saclay, France
Teddy Milenov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Klaus Mueller, FZ Juelich (emerit.), Germany
Janina Oestling, C-RAD Imaging AB, Sweden
Stanislav Pospisil, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Jean-François Pratte, BNL, USA
Francisco Javier Ramírez Jiménez, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico
Anatoly Rosenfeld, University of Wollongong, Australia
Christina Sanders, LLNL, USA
Agnieszka Syntfeld-Kazuch, Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Poland
Hui Tan, X-Ray Instrumentation Associates, USA
Maxim Titov, CEA Saclay, France
Francesca Toglia, Univ. Napoli, Italy
Matthew S. Twomey, University of Washington, USA
George Tzanakos, University of Athens, Greece
Juan José Vaquero, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Spain
Ping Yeh, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Alexander Zaitsev, Institute for High Energy Physics Protvino, Russia