Martin P Tornai, Associate Professor of Radiology, Medical Physics Program (Primary Appt.) and Biomedical Engineering  


Martin P Tornai
Contact Info:
Office Location:  Research Park Building 2, Rm 118
Email Address:   send me a message
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/web/mmil/People/Martin.htm

Office Hours:

By appt.
Education:

PhD, UCLA School of Medcine, 1997
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1997
Specialties:

Medical Imaging
Areas of Interest:

Medical Imaging

Duties:

Duke IRB Committee Member Medical Physics Admissions Committee Medical Physics Internship Coordinator
Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. DJ Crotty, RL McKinley, MP Tornai, Experimental spectral measurements of heavy K-edge filtered beams for x-ray computed mammotomography., Physics in medicine and biology, England, vol. 52 no. 3 (February, 2007), pp. 603-16  [abs].
  2. CN Brzymialkiewicz, MP Tornai, RL McKinley, SJ Cutler, JE Bowsher, Performance of dedicated emission mammotomography for various breast shapes and sizes., Physics in medicine and biology, England, vol. 51 no. 19 (October, 2006), pp. 5051-64  [abs].
  3. CN Brzymialkiewicz, MP Tornai, RL McKinley, JE Bowsher, Evaluation of fully 3-D emission mammotomography with a compact cadmium zinc telluride detector., IEEE transactions on medical imaging, United States, vol. 24 no. 7 (July, 2005), pp. 868-77  [abs].
  4. E Samei, JT Dobbins, JY Lo, MP Tornai, A framework for optimising the radiographic technique in digital X-ray imaging., Radiation protection dosimetry, England, vol. 114 no. 1-3 (2005), pp. 220-9  [abs].
  5. RL McKinley, MP Tornai, E Samei, ML Bradshaw, Simulation study of a quasi-monochromatic beam for x-ray computed mammotomography., Medical physics, United States, vol. 31 no. 4 (April, 2004), pp. 800-13  [abs].
  6. MP Tornai, JE Bowsher, RJ Jaszczak, BC Pieper, KL Greer, PH Hardenbergh, RE Coleman, Mammotomography with pinhole incomplete circular orbit SPECT., Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, United States, vol. 44 no. 4 (April, 2003), pp. 583-93  [abs].
  7. MP Tornai, BE Patt, JS Iwanczyk, CR Tull, LR MacDonald, EJ Hoffman, A novel silicon array designed for intraoperative charged particle imaging., Medical physics, United States, vol. 29 no. 11 (November, 2002), pp. 2529-40  [abs].
  8. JE Bowsher, MP Tornai, J Peter, DE González Trotter, A Krol, DR Gilland, RJ Jaszczak, Modeling the axial extension of a transmission line source within iterative reconstruction via multiple transmission sources., IEEE transactions on medical imaging, United States, vol. 21 no. 3 (March, 2002), pp. 200-15  [abs].
  9. A Krol, JE Bowsher, SH Manglos, DH Feiglin, MP Tornai, FD Thomas, An EM algorithm for estimating SPECT emission and transmission parameters from emissions data only., IEEE transactions on medical imaging, United States, vol. 20 no. 3 (March, 2001), pp. 218-32  [abs].
  10. J Peter, MP Tornai, RJ Jaszczek, Analytical versus voxelized phantom representation for Monte Carlo simulation in radiological imaging., IEEE transactions on medical imaging, UNITED STATES, vol. 19 no. 5 (May, 2000), pp. 556-64  [abs].
  11. EJ Hoffman, MP Tornai, M Janecek, BE Patt, JS Iwanczyk, Intraoperative probes and imaging probes., European journal of nuclear medicine, GERMANY, vol. 26 no. 8 (August, 1999), pp. 913-35  [abs].
  12. MP Tornai, RJ Jaszczak, TG Turkington, RE Coleman, Small-animal PET: advent of a new era of PET research., Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, UNITED STATES, vol. 40 no. 7 (July, 1999), pp. 1176-9 .
  13. MP Tornai, CS Levin, LR MacDonald, CH Holdsworth, EJ Hoffman. 1998. "A Miniature Phoswich Detector for Gamma-Ray Localization and Beta Imaging." IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS-45(3):1166-1173. .
  14. MP Tornai, BE Patt, JS Iwanczyk, CS Levin, EJ Hoffman. 1997. "Discrete Scintillator Coupled Mercuric Iodide Photdetector Arrays for Breast Imaging." IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS-44(3): 1127-1133. .
  15. MP Tornai, LR MacDonald, CS Levin, S Siegel, EJ Hoffman. 1996. "Design Considerations and Inital Performance of a 1.2 cm^2 Beta Imaging Intra-Operative Probe." IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS-43(4):2326-2335. .