Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography

ELISSA L. KRAMER is currently an adjunct Professor of Radiology at New York University, School of Medicine, New York. She retired in February 2007 from her clinical position where she served as Section Chief of Nuclear Medicine. She received her M.D. from New York University where she completed her residency in Radiology and her fellowship in Nuclear Medicine at New York University Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital Center, New York. Dr. Kramer has published on Nuclear Medicine imaging in the immunosuppressed patient and on the clinical application of SPECT. Her research interests are tumor imaging, including clinical FDG PET and SPECT, image fusion, and lymphoscintigraphy, both for lymphedema and sentinel node identification. JANE P. KO is Associate Professor of Radiology, Thoracic Imaging Section, New York University School of Medicine, and an Associate Attending at Tisch and Bellevue Hospitals at New York University Medical Center, New York. She received her M.D. from University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, and completed a fellowship in the Thoracic Section of the Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Ko’s major areas of clinical and research interest cover image analysis technology, chest CT, and lung cancer/chest malignancy. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Thoracic Imaging, and has published over 30 peer-reviewed and educational manuscripts and three book chapters. FABIO PONZO is Assistant Professor of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, Clinical Assistant Attending, Department of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Clinical Assistant Attending, Department of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Tisch Hospital/New York University Medical Center, Assistant Attending, Department of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Bellevue Hospital Medical Center, New York. Dr. Ponzo received his M.D. from the University of Rome, La Sapienza Medical School, Italy, and then served as an M.D. Officer for the Italian Air Force. He completed his residency in Nuclear Medicine from both the University of Rome, and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and his major area of interest is in Nuclear Medicine. KAREN MOURTZIKOS is Assistant Professor of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, Assistant Attending of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, New York University Hospitals Center, New York, and Assistant Attending of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Bellevue Hospital, New York. Dr. Mourtzikos received her M.D. from Albany Medical College, completed her residency in nuclear medicine from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and a fellowship in Clinical and Research PET and PET/CT, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.

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