Primary Research Area:

Biomedical Engineering including Biomedical Imaging, Image Processing and Analysis, Medical Imaging

Communications and Signal Processing including Image Analysis

Research Interests:

Research interests include development of tomographic imaging systems using nuclear medicine, X-ray, and optical methods; dynamic cardiac imaging in PET and SPECT; tomographic reconstruction from nonparallel geometries; molecular imaging.

Education:

BS in Electrical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem,PA
MS in Electrical Engineering, NC State University, Raleigh, NC
PhD in Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Recent Publications:

1. Lalush, D. S., M. K. Jatko, and W. P. Segars, “An observer study methodology for evaluating detection of motion abnormalities in gated myocardial perfusion SPECT,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 52, pp. 480-485, 2005.
2. Lalush, D. S., “Characterization, modeling, and simulation of mouse microarray images,” in Methods of Microarray Data Analysis III, (Eds, S. Lin and K. Johnson), Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston, 2003.
3. Lalush, D. S., and A. J. DiMeo, “A Monte Carlo investigation of dual-planar circular-orbit cone-beam SPECT,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 47, pp. 4357-4370, 2002.
4. Lalush, D. S., and A. J. DiMeo, “An observer study evaluating dual-planar circular-orbit cone-beam brain SPECT,” Journal of Nuclear Medicine, vol. 43, pp. 1578-1583, 2002.
5. Lalush, D. S. and B. M. W. Tsui, “Performance of ordered subset reconstruction algorithms under conditions of extreme attenuation and truncation in cardiac SPECT,” Journal of Nuclear Medicine, vol. 41, pp. 737-744, 2000.

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