IEEE NPSS Awards

These awards were given during the 2007 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference:
 

The 2007 Radiation Instrumentation Outstanding Achievement Award

Prof. Glenn F. Knoll,  University of Michigan, USA For contributions to the education of a generation of nuclear scientists and advancement of the science of radiation detection.

The 2007 NPSS Merit Award

Prof. Charles L. Melcher, University of Tennessee, USA For outstanding contributions to the field of scintillation materials, particularly for the invention, development, and commercialization of LSO scintillator and the resulting impact on positron emission tomography and nuclear medicine.

The 2007 Edward J. Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award

Dr. Ronald H Huesman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA For important contributions to quantitative reconstruction tomography and statistically sound kinetic modeling in three- dimensional medical emission imaging.

The 2007 Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award

Dr. William Paul Segars, Duke University, USA For contributions to the field of medical imaging through the development of innovative computerized simulation tools widely utilized by the research community.

2007 NPSS Student Paper Awards

Nuclear Science Symposium

Best Papers:	Michelle Leber, University of Washington, USA Paper N42-3, "Background Simulations and Detector Design for the KATRIN Experiment"
	Anton Lechner, Austrian University, Austria Paper N36-3, "Validation of Geant4 Backscattering Simulation Against Energy and Charge Albedo Measurements"
Runners-up:	Sara Vecchior, University of Pisa, Italy Paper N24-362, "A PET Prototype for 'In-Beam' Monitoring of Proton Therapy"
	Harold Rothfuss, University of Tennessee, USA Paper N24-196, "Scintillation Kinetics of YSO:Ce"

Medical Imaging Conference

 

Best Papers:	Johannes Fink, Institute of Physics, University of Bonn, Germany Paper M09-3, "CIX – a Simultaneously Counting and Integrating X-Ray Detector"
	Martin Judenhofer, University of Tübingen, Germany Paper M16-5, "Simultaneous Small Animal in Vivo PET//MR Imaging in a 7 Tesla Magnet: First Studies in Oncology and Cardiology"
Runners-up:	Peter Olcott, Stanford University, USA Paper M14-1, "Data acquisition system design for a 1 mm3 resolution PSAPD-based PET system"
	Huini Du, University of California, Davis, USA Paper M03-3, “A Novel Scintillation Detector Using Decay Time Differences for Continuous Depth-of-Interaction Information”

2007 NPSS Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grants

2007 Trainee Grants

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