MS, Experimental Nuclear Physics, Laval University, Quebec Canada 1991
BS, Physics, Laval University, Quebec Canada 1989

I am the co-Director of the Washington University Small Animal Imaging Laboratory which is composed of 3 small animal PET cameras and 1 small animal CT camera. This laboratory is the major component of the Washington University Small Animal Imaging Resource (WUSAIR, PI. J.Ackerman, Ph.D.) and the Siteman Cancer Center (SCC, PI: T.Eberlein M.D.). My research involves the developments of multi-modality small animal imaging instruments and techniques. Small animal imaging has become the main laboratory instrument in our institute and around the world for the development of new agents for diagnostic and therapy. The animal of choice for this development is often the mouse due to the wide availability of tansgenic animal models exhibiting the desired phenotype of specific diseases. New tracers are also developed with novel positron emitting nuclides with unfavorable decay characteristics for PET imaging. Suitable imaging techniques and adapted image reconstruction must be optimized for these nuclides in order to provide high quality images.