Joel S. Karp, Ph.D.
Professor of Radiologic Physics in Radiology
Administrator, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health Care Provider
Section Chief, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department of Radiology - Physics & Instrumentation Group
Sub-Core Director, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
PET/SPECT/CT, Small Animal Imaging Facility
Director, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Physics, Positron Emission Tomography Facility
Department: Radiology
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Radiology
Physics & Instrumentation Group
3620 Hamilton Walk
1st Floor John Morgan Building - Room #154
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6112
Department of Radiology
Physics & Instrumentation Group
3620 Hamilton Walk
1st Floor John Morgan Building - Room #154
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6112
Office: 215-573-4998
Fax: 215-573-3880
Fax: 215-573-3880
Education:
B.S. (Physics)
State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1975.
Ph.D. (Physics)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980.
Permanent linkB.S. (Physics)
State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1975.
Ph.D. (Physics)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980.
Selected Publications
Raj J, Millardet M, Krishnamoorthy S, Karp JS, Surti S, Matej S: "Recovery of the spatially-variant deformations in dual-panel PET reconstructions using deep-learning" Phys Med Biol 69, February 2024.Hamill JJ, Cabello J, Karp JS, Surti S: "Energy-Based Scatter Estimation in Clinical PET/CT" Medical Physics 51, January 2024.
Muller FM, Vervenne B, Maebe J, Karp JS, Vanhove C, Vandenberghe S: "Image Denoising low dose PET Mouse Imaging with Deep Learning; Validation study for Preclinical Imaging Applicability" Mol Imaging and Biol 26, October 2023.
Vandenberghe S, Muller FM, Withofs N, Dadgar M, Maebe J, Vervenne B, Abi Akl M, Xue S, Shi K, Sportelli G, Belcari N, Hustinx R, Vanhove C, Karp JS: "Walk-through flat panel total-body PET: a patient-centered design for high throughput imaging at lower cost using DOI-capable high-resolution monolithic detectors" Eur J Nucl Med and Mol Imag July 2023.
Surti S, Werner ME, Karp JS: "Evaluation of cost-effective system designs for long axial field-of-view PET scanners" Phys Med Biol 68, May 2023.
Dai B, Daube-Witherspoon ME, McDonald S, Werner ME, Parma MJ, Geagan MJ, Viswanath V, Karp JS: "Performance Evaluation of the PennPET Explorer with Expanded Axial Coverage" Phys Med Biol 68, April 2023.
Vandenberghe S, Karakatsanis NA, Abi Akl M, Maebe J, Surti S, Dierckx RA, Pryma DA, Nehmeh SA, Bouhali O, Karp JS: "The Potential of a medium-cost long axial FOV PET system for Nuclear Medicine Departments" European J Nucl Med and Mol Imaging 50, September 2022.
Daube-Witherspoon ME, Pantel AR, Pryma DA, Karp JS: "Total-body PET: A New Paradigm for Molecular Imaging" British J Radiol August 2022.
Daube-Witherspoon ME, Pantel AR, Pryma DA, Karp JS: "Total-Body PET: A New Paradigm for Molecular Imaging" British Journal of Radiology August 2022.
Liu Q, Liu H, Mirian N, Ren S, Viswanath V, Karp J, Surti S, Liu C: A Personalized Deep Learning Denoising Strategy for Low-Count PET Images" Physics in Medicine Biology 67(14), July 2022.