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H. Huesman is presently Emeritus Senior Scientist at the E.O. Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. He was born
and raised in San Francisco and received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering
in 1963 at the University of California at Berkeley. He spent four
years in and attained the rank of captain in the United States Marine
Corps, and then completed a Ph.D. in Physics in 1974 at the University
of California at Berkeley. His work in the field of medical imaging
began with development of reconstruction algorithms for tomography.
His areas of specialization have been data acquisition and data
analysis for PET with emphasis on quantitation and the propagation
of statistical uncertainty. Accurate modeling of the physical and
statistical aspects of data acquisition and the incorporation of
these details into parameter estimation have been a central theme
of his research. More recently he has studied the problems of gantry
motion in dynamic SPECT, respiratory motion in cardiac PET, and
motion when imaging awake animals.
Principal contributions are the published catalogue of reconstruction
tomography algorithms in use for 30 years; innovations in kinetic
data acquisition; team experiments in cosmic particle interaction
with human beings; and as one of the principals in the development
of the 280 crystal dynamic PET in 1976, the 2.6mm resolution 600
crystal PET in 1986, and the design of several advanced PET scanners
now under development. He has been active in the exchange of scientific
ideas through uninterrupted participation in the IEEE Nuclear Science
and Medical Imaging Conferences since 1975 and is a D.O.E. awardee
for Excellence in Technology Transfer. Dr. Huesman has been on conference
organizing committees, completed a four year term serving as a regular
member of the NIH study section in Diagnostic Radiology, served
on the IEEE NMISC, serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions
on Medical Imaging, is on the International Advisory Board of Physics
in Medicine & Biology, chaired 3D-2001 - The Sixth International
Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology
and Nuclear Medicine, and was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2002.
The Nominator was Thomas Budinger, MD.
Citation: For important contributions to quantitative
reconstruction tomography and statistically sound kinetic modeling
in three-dimensional medical emission imaging.
Ronald Huesman can be reached at t rhhuesman@lbl.gov
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