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Craig Levin
Craig Levin
Professor, Department of Radiology
Member, MIPS
Education:Ph.D., Yale University Physics, 1987-93 (full scholarship)
M.Phil., Yale University Physics, 1985-87 (full scholarship)
M.S. Yale University Physics, 1985-87 (full scholarship)
B.S. University of California, Los Angeles, Double Major: Physics and Mathematics, 1980-85
Address:300 Pasteur Drive, MC 5128
Alway Building, Room M-001
Stanford, CA 94305-5128
Phone:(650) 736-7211
Fax:(650) 724-1499
E-mail: cslevin@stanford.edu
Research Interests:Our research interests involve the development of novel instrumentation and software algorithms for in vivo imaging of molecular signals in humans and small laboratory animals. These new cameras efficiently image radiation emissions in the form of positrons, annihilation photons, gamma rays, and light from molecular probes developed to target molecular signals from deep within tissue of live subjects. The goals of the instrumentation projects are to push the sensitivity and spatial, spectral, and/or temporal resolutions as far as physically possible. The algorithm goals are to understand the physical system comprising the subject tissues, radiation transport, and imaging system, and to provide the best available image quality and quantitative accuracy. The work involves computer modeling, position sensitive sensors, readout electronics, data acquisition, image formation, image processing, and data/image analysis algorithms, and incorporating these innovations into practical imaging devices. The ultimate goal is to introduce these new imaging tools into studies of molecular mechanisms and treatments of disease within living subjects.
Current Labs:Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory (MIIL)
Recent Publications:
  • Levin CS, Habte F, Foudray AM, Zhang J, Chinn G. Impact of High Energy Resolution Detectors on the Performance of a PET System Dedicated to Breast Cancer Imaging. Physica Medica.; 21(): 28-34.

  • A. Vandenbroucke, A. M. K. Foudray, F. W. Y. Lau, P. D. Olcott, P. D. Reynolds, C. S. Levin. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record. Performance characterization of a new high resolution PET scintillation detector.2008; (): 3604-3608.

  • F. W. Y. Lau, A. Vandenbroucke, P. D. Reynolds, P. D. Olcott, M. A. Horowitz, C. S. Levin. Front-end electronics for a 1mm^3 resolution avalanche photodiode-based PET System with analog signal multiplexing. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record.2008; (): 3871-3874.

  • F. W. Y. Lau, C. Fang, P. D. Reynolds, P. D. Olcott, A. Vandenbroucke, V. C. Spanoudaki, F. Olutade, M. A. Horowitz, C. S. Levin. 1mm^3 resolution breast-dedicated PET system. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record.2008; (): 5619-5622.

  • Chinn G, Levin CS. PET image reconstruction with a Bayesian projector for multi-electronic collimation schemes. 2007 IEEE Nuc. Sci. Symp. Conf. Rec.2007; (): 2799-2802.

  • Foudray A and Levin CS. Bayesian Estimator for Angle Recovery: Event Classification and Reconstruction in Positron Emission Tomography. J. of Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods.2007; (): accepted.

  • Foudray AM, Habte F, Chinn G, Zhang J, Levin CS, Olcott PD. Optimization of a Cylindrical PET Breast Imaging System Comprised of Position Sensitive Avalanche Photodiodes Utilizing Monte Carlo Simulation. Physica Medica.2007; (): in press.

  • Habte F, Foudray AMK, Olcott PD, Levin CS. Effects of System Geometry and Other Physical Factors on Photon Sensitivity of High Resolution Positron Emission Tomography. Phys. in Med. and Biol..2007; 52(): 3753-3772.

  • Habte F, Olcott PD, Foudray AM, Levin CS, Zhang J, Chinn G. Simulation and Measurement of Gamma-Ray and Annihilation Photon Imaging Detectors. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci..2007; (): in press.

  • Habte F, Olcott PD, Levin CS. High Resolution, Light Multiplexed 3D Positioning Scintillation Detector for High Resolution PET. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.2007; (): submitted.

  • Habte F, Olcott PD, Levin CS, Foudray AM. Prototype Parallel Readout System for Position Sensitive PMT Based Gamma-Ray Imaging Systems. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci..2007; 54(1): 60-65.

  • Habte F, Pratx G, Olcott PD, Levin CS. New Geometry for a Whole Body PET System. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.2007; (): submitted.

  • Keren S, Gheysens O, Levin CS, Gambhir SS. Characterization of a Small Animal Time-Domain Fluorescence Tomography Imaging System. IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging.2007; (): Undergoing Revision.

  • Lau FWY, Olcott PD, Horowitz MA, Peng H, Levin CS. Noise analysis of LSO-PSAPD PET detector front-end multiplexing circuits. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record.2007; 5(): 3212-3219.

  • Lau FWY, Olcott PD, Levin CS. Data acquisition system design for a 1mm^3 resolution PSAPD-based PET system. presented at the Joint Molecular Imaging Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A..2007; (): .

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