| HUGO DE JONG 2001 Graduate Student Award |
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de Jong (1973) received his M.Sc. degree in applied physics in 1997
from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. He recently
finished his Ph.D. dissertation on scatter correction for simultaneous
Dual-Isotope Single Photon Emission Computer Tomography (SPECT) images.
He carried out his research under supervision of Dr. Freek Beekman
in the lab for tomographic instrumentation and reconstruction, at
the University Medical Center Utrecht. Hugo (co-)authored ten journal
papers and published several proceeding papers and peer reviewed abstracts.
After receiving his Ph.D. he started working
at the clinical PET-center of the VU University Medical Center in
Amsterdam, were he is doing research on an experimental high resolution
PET scanner (HRRT, CTI) and, more in particular, on attenuation
and scatter correction for PET. Hugo's research comprises the development
of scatter models, scatter correction methods and the acceleration
and refinement of Monte Carlo simulation. Hugo de Jong and his colleagues
recently introduced extremely fast quasi Monte Carlo simulation
methods for scatter calculations in non-uniform media. The methods
are suitable for accurate (down-)scatter correction during reconstruction
of emission tomography images. In the past, Hugo de Jong has contributed
to projects on (i) MRI imaging, (ii) plasma physics (iii) nuclear
analysis techniques. He collaborates with several academic groups
world wide. From February until May 2000, he carried out part of
his research at the Bio-medical Engineering Group at the University
of North Carolina, under the supervision of Dr. Eric Frey. Hugo de Jong can be reached at the VU University Medical Center, Clinical PET-Center, De Boelelaan 1117, 1007 MB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Phone: +31-20-4444346; Fax: +31-20- 4444147; E-mail: hwam.jong@vumc.nl |
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Hugo de Jong
2001 Graduate Student Award |
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