Scott D. Metzler, PhD

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Research Professor of Radiology
CT Technology Chief, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Radiology
Graduate Group Affiliations

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John Morgan Building, Room 160B
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-573-6025
Education:
BS
Pennsylvania State University, 1992.
PhD
University of Pennsylvania, 1996.
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Description of Research Expertise

My expertise is the development, characterization, and use of instrumentation for emission tomography. In particular, I work on collimation for single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), with an emphasis on cardiac and high-resolution applications. I have developed detailed models of pinhole-aperture penetration by high energy gamma rays, a limiting aspect of high-resolution applications and both sensitivity and resolution models for slit-slat collimation, which is a hybrid cross of pinhole and parallel-beam collimation that can be used for small-organ imaging in clinical applications. In the laboratory, we use helical pinhole SPECT as a method for acquiring and reconstructing artifact-free images for whole-body small-animal applications.
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Last updated: 09/20/2023
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