Joel S. Karp, Ph.D.

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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
Office: 215-573-4998
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.
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Selected Publications

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.

Johnson L, Viswanath V, Doot R, Karp JS, Dubroff J: "Whole-Body Dynamic Nicotine Achetylcholinergic Receptor PET Imaging of Abstaining Smokers, A First in Human Study Using the PennPET Explorer" 2022 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging June 2022.

Dai B, Daube-Witherspoon ME, Karp JS: "Performance Evaluation of the PennPET Explorer With Expanded Axial Coverage" 2022 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging June 2022.

Hamill J, Karp JS, Surti S: "Evaluation of Energy-Based Scatter Compensation Methods in Clinical Whole-Body PET" 2022 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging June 2022.

Krishnamoorthy S, Morales E, Ashmanskas WJ, Werner ME, Matej S, Vent T, Choi CJ, Maidment ADA, Mankoff DA, Edmonds CE, Karp JS, Surti S: "Imaging Performance of a Dedicated BPET-DBT Scanner" 2022 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging June 2022.

Pantel AR, Mankoff DA, Karp JS: "Total-Body PET - Will it Change Science and Practice?" Journal of Nuclear Medicine 63(5): 646-648, May 2022.

Wei S, Joshi N, Salerno M, Ouellette D, Saleh L, Delorenzo C, Woody C, Schlyer D, Purschke ML, Pratte J-F, Junnarkar S, Budassi M, Cao T, Fried J, Karp JS, Vaska P: "PET Imaging of Leg Arteries for Determining the Input Function in PET/MRI Brain Studies Using a Compact, MRI-Compatible PET System" IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences 6(5): 583-591, May 2022.

Efthimiou N, Karp JS, Surti S: "Data-Driven, Energy-Based Method for Estimation of Scattered Events in Positron Emission Tomography" Physics in Medicine Biology 67(9), April 2022.

Lee H, Scheuermann JS, Young AJ, Doot RK, Daube-Witherspoon ME, Schubert EK, Fillare MA, Alexoff D, Karp JS, Kung HF, Pryma DA: "Preliminary Evaluation of 68Ga-P16-093, a PET Radiotracer Targeting Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen in Prostate Cancer" Molecular Imaging and Biology March 2022.

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