Profile Detail
Bruce Whiting, PhD
Research Associate ProfessorE-Mail:
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| Education | Carnegie Mellon University, BS Physics, 1972 Carnegie Mellon University, MS Physics, 1973 Carnegie Mellon University, MS Instrumentation, 1977 Carnegie Mellon University, PhD Physics, 1977 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | |
| Medical / Graduate School | Carnegie Mellon University, MS Carnegie Mellon University, MS Carnegie Mellon University, PhD |
| Residency | |
| Clinical / Post-doctoral Fellowship | |
| Current | American Physical Society (1977-present); SPIE (1992-present), conference co-chair Physics of Medical Imaging 2012-2014 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (1992-present) Optical Society of America, Senior Member (1997-present) IEEE ,Senior Member (1997-present); |
| Specialties & Programs |
CT Digital Imaging |
| Clinical Interest | CT imaging |
| Research Interest | Models of physics in CT acquisition CT reconstruction algorithms Radiation dose reduction |
| Selected Publications | Williamson, J. F., B. R. Whiting, J. Benac, R. J. Murphy, G. J. Blaine, J. A. O'Sullivan, D. G. Politte and D. L. Snyder, Prospects for quantitative computed tomography imaging in the presence of foreign metal bodies using statistical image reconstruction, Med. Phys. 29, pp 1-15, 2002 Whiting, B.R., P. Massoumzadeh, O. A. Earl, J. A. O'Sullivan, D. L. Snyder and J. F. Williamson (2006). "Properties of preprocessed sinogram data in x-ray computed tomography." Med. Phys. 33(9): 3290-3303 Snyder, D.L., J. A. O'Sullivan, R. J. Murphy, D. G. Politte, B. R. Whiting and J. F. Williamson, Image Reconstruction for transmission tomography when projection data are incomplete, Phy Med Biol, 2006. 51(21) p. 5603-19. Lasio, G.M., B.R. Whiting, J.F. Williamson, Statistical reconstruction for x-ray computed tomography using energy-integrating detectors, Phy Med Biol, 2007 52 p. 2246-2266 Gierada, D.S., T. K. Pilgram, B. R. Whiting, C. Hong, A. J. Bierhals, J. H. Kim and K. T. Bae, Comparison of standard- and low-radiation-dose CT for quantification of emphysema. AJR Am J Roentgenol, 2007. 188(1): p. 42-7. Don, S., B. R. Whiting, J. S. Ellinwood, D. H. Foos, K. A. Kronemer and R. A. Kraus, Neonatal chest computed radiography: image processing and optimal image display. AJR Am J Roentgenol, 2007. 188(4): p. 1138-44. Whiting, B. R., Holden, T.A., Brunsden, B.S., Finley, C.C., Skinner, M.W., Use of Computed Tomography Scans for Cochlear Implants, Journal of Digital Imaging, 2008. 21(3): p. 323-8. Massoumzadeh, P., S. Don, C.F. Hildebolt, K.T. Bae, B.R. Whiting, "Validation of CT Dose-reduction Simulation", Medical Physics, 2009. 36(1) p. 174-189 Gierada, D. S., A. J. Bierhals, C. K. Choong, S. T. Bartel, J. H. Ritter, N. A. Das, C. Hong, T. K. Pilgram, K. T. Bae, B. R. Whiting, J. C. Woods, J. C. Hogg, B. A. Lutey, R. J. Battafarano, J. D. Cooper, B. F. Meyers and G. A. Patterson, "Effects of CT section thickness and reconstruction kernel on emphysema quantification relationship to the magnitude of the CT emphysema index," Acad Radiol (2010) 17, 146-156. Evans, J. D. , D. G. Politte, B. R. Whiting, J. A. O'Sullivan and J. F. Williamson, "Noise-resolution tradeoffs in x-ray CT imaging: a comparison of Penalized Alternating Minimization and Filtered Backprojection algorithms," Medical Physics 38, 1444-1458 (2011). Don, S, R. MacDougall, K. Strauss, Q. T. Moore, M. J. Goske, M. Cohen, T. Herrmann, S. D. John, L. Noble, G. Morrison, L. Lehman and B. R. Whiting, "Image gently campaign back to basics initiative: ten steps to help manage radiation dose in pediatric digital radiography," American Journal of Roentgenology 200, W431-W436 (2013). Whiting, B.R., J. D. Evans, A. C. Dohatcu, J. F. Williamson and D. G. Politte, "Measurement of bow tie profiles in CT scanners using a real-time dosimeter," Medical physics 41, 101915 (2014). |
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| PubMed Publications | See a listing of publications on PubMed, a service of the National Library of medicine. |
