Ronald J Jaszczak, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Medical Physics Program and Biomedical Engineering  


Ronald J Jaszczak
Contact Info:
Office Location:  161D Bryan Res Building
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Web Page: http://medicalphysics.duke.edu/faculty.html

Education:

Ph.D., University of Florida, 1968
Specialties:

Photonics
Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. R Ter-Antonyan, RJ Jaszczak, KL Greer, JE Bowsher, SD Metzler, RE Coleman, Combination of Converging Collimators for High-Sensitivity Brain SPECT., Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine (August, 2009)  [abs].
  2. J Zhang, J Ma, S Zhou, JL Hubbs, TZ Wong, RJ Folz, ES Evans, RJ Jaszczak, R Clough, LB Marks, Radiation-Induced Reductions in Regional Lung Perfusion: 0.1-12 Year Data from a Prospective Clinical Study., International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics (July, 2009)  [abs].
  3. SD Metzler, S Vemulapalli, RJ Jaszczak, G Akabani, BB Chin, Feasibility of Whole-Body Functional Mouse Imaging Using Helical Pinhole SPECT., Molecular imaging and biology : MIB : the official publication of the Academy of Molecular Imaging (June, 2009)  [abs].
  4. R Ter-Antonyan, RJ Jaszczak, JE Bowsher, KL Greer, SD Metzler, Quantitative Evaluation of Half-Cone-Beam Scan Paths in Triple-Camera Brain SPECT., IEEE transactions on nuclear science, vol. 55 no. 5 (October, 2008), pp. 2518-2526  [abs].
  5. BB Chin, SD Metzler, A Lemaire, A Curcio, S Vemulapalli, KL Greer, NA Petry, TG Turkington, RE Coleman, H Rockman, RJ Jaszczak, Left ventricular functional assessment in mice: feasibility of high spatial and temporal resolution ECG-gated blood pool SPECT., Radiology, United States, vol. 245 no. 2 (November, 2007), pp. 440-8  [abs].
  6. S Vemulapalli, SD Metzler, G Akabani, NA Petry, NJ Niehaus, X Liu, NH Patil, KL Greer, RJ Jaszczak, RE Coleman, C Dong, PJ Goldschmidt-Clermont, BB Chin, Cell therapy in murine atherosclerosis: in vivo imaging with high-resolution helical SPECT., Radiology, United States, vol. 242 no. 1 (January, 2007), pp. 198-207  [abs].
  7. R Ter-Antonyan, RJ Jaszczak, JE Bowsher, KL Greer, SD Metzler, Brain SPECT Simulation Using Half-Cone-Beam Collimation and Single-Revolution Helical-Path Acquisition., IEEE transactions on nuclear science, vol. 54 no. 3 (2007), pp. 475-479  [abs].
  8. Metzler SD, Jaszczak RJ, Greer KL, Bowsher JE. Angular-dependent axial-shift correction for pinhole SPECT. IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, 2007 Feb;54(1):124-129. .
  9. SD Metzler, R Accorsi, JR Novak, AS Ayan, RJ Jaszczak, On-axis sensitivity and resolution of a slit-slat collimator., Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, United States, vol. 47 no. 11 (November, 2006), pp. 1884-90  [abs].
  10. RJ Jaszczak, The early years of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT): an anthology of selected reminiscences., Physics in medicine and biology, England, vol. 51 no. 13 (July, 2006), pp. R99-115  [abs].
  11. Bobkov KV, Bowsher JE, Greer KL, Jaszczak RJ, Braun KE, Lee TJ. Phantom assessment of new acquisition geometries for breast pinhole SPECT imaging. IEEE Trans Nuc Sci, 2006 Jun;53(3):1162-1167. .
  12. Bowsher JE, DeLong DM, Turkington TG, Jaszczak RJ. Aligning emission tomography and MRI images by optimizing the emission-tomography image reconstruction objective function. IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, 2006 Jun;53(3):1248-1258. .
  13. Metzler SD, Jaszczak RJ. Simultaneous multi-head calibration for pinhole SPECT. IEEE Trans Nucl Sci. 2006 Feb;53(1):113-120. .
  14. SD Metzler, RJ Jaszczak, NH Patil, S Vemulapalli, G Akabani, BB Chin, Molecular imaging of small animals with a triple-head SPECT system using pinhole collimation., IEEE transactions on medical imaging, United States, vol. 24 no. 7 (July, 2005), pp. 853-62  [abs].
  15. SD Metzler, KL Greer, RJ Jaszczak, Determination of mechanical and electronic shifts for pinhole SPECT using a single point source., IEEE transactions on medical imaging, United States, vol. 24 no. 3 (March, 2005), pp. 361-70  [abs].
  16. Metzler SD, Greer KL, Bobkov K, Jaszczak RJ. Laser alignment system for helical pinhole SPECT. IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, 2004 Jun;51(3):603-610. .
  17. 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].
  18. Archer CN, Tornai MP, Bowsher JE, Metzler SD, Pieper BC, Jaszczak RJ. Implementation and initial characterization of acquisition orbits with a dedicated emission mammotomograph. IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, 2003 Jun;50(3):413-420. .
  19. Metzler SD, Bowsher JE, Jaszczak RJ. Geometrical similarities of the Orlov and Tuy sampling criteria and a numerical algorithm for assessing sampling completeness. IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, 2003 Oct;50(5):1550-1555. .
  20. Metzler SD, Greer KL, Jaszczak RJ. Helical pinhole SPECT for small-animal imaging: A method for addressing sampling completeness. IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, 2003 Oct;50(5):1575-1583. .
  21. Tornai MP, Bowsher JE, Archer CN, Peter J, Jaszczak RJ, MacDonald LR, Patt BE, Iwanczyk JS. A 3D gantry single photon emission tomograph with hemispherical coverage for dedicated breast imaging. Nuc Instr Meth Phys Res Sec A. 2003 Jan;497(1):157-167. .
  22. PA Lind, LB Marks, D Hollis, M Fan, SM Zhou, MT Munley, TD Shafman, RJ Jaszczak, RE Coleman, Receiver operating characteristic curves to assess predictors of radiation-induced symptomatic lung injury., International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, United States, vol. 54 no. 2 (October, 2002), pp. 340-7  [abs].
  23. SD Metzler, JE Bowsher, KL Greer, RJ Jaszczak, Analytic determination of the pinhole collimator's point-spread function and RMS resolution with penetration., IEEE transactions on medical imaging, United States, vol. 21 no. 8 (August, 2002), pp. 878-87  [abs].
  24. 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].
  25. RT Woel, MT Munley, D Hollis, M Fan, G Bentel, MS Anscher, T Shafman, RE Coleman, RJ Jaszczak, LB Marks, The time course of radiation therapy-induced reductions in regional perfusion: a prospective study with >5 years of follow-up., International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, United States, vol. 52 no. 1 (January, 2002), pp. 58-67  [abs].
  26. SD Metzler, JE Bowsher, MF Smith, RJ Jaszczak, Analytic determination of pinhole collimator sensitivity with penetration., IEEE transactions on medical imaging, United States, vol. 20 no. 8 (August, 2001), pp. 730-41  [abs].
  27. KJ LaCroix, BM Tsui, EC Frey, RJ Jaszczak, Receiver operating characteristic evaluation of iterative reconstruction with attenuation correction in 99mTc-sestamibi myocardial SPECT images., Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, UNITED STATES, vol. 41 no. 3 (March, 2000), pp. 502-13  [abs].
  28. C Scarfone, RJ Jaszczak, DR Gilland, KL Greer, MT Munley, LB Marks, RE Coleman, Quantitative pulmonary single photon emission computed tomography for radiotherapy applications., Medical physics, UNITED STATES, vol. 26 no. 8 (August, 1999), pp. 1579-88  [abs].
  29. 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 .
  30. MT Munley, LB Marks, C Scarfone, GS Sibley, EF Patz, TG Turkington, RJ Jaszczak, DR Gilland, MS Anscher, RE Coleman, Multimodality nuclear medicine imaging in three-dimensional radiation treatment planning for lung cancer: challenges and prospects., Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands), IRELAND, vol. 23 no. 2 (February, 1999), pp. 105-14  [abs].
  31. C Scarfone, RJ Jaszczak, J Li, MS Soo, MF Smith, KL Greer, RE Coleman, Breast tumour imaging using incomplete circular orbit pinhole SPET: a phantom study., Nuclear medicine communications, ENGLAND, vol. 18 no. 11 (November, 1997), pp. 1077-86  [abs].
  32. J Li, RJ Jaszczak, KL Greer, DR Gilland, DM DeLong, RE Coleman, Evaluation of SPECT quantification of radiopharmaceutical distribution in canine myocardium., Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, UNITED STATES, vol. 36 no. 2 (February, 1995), pp. 278-86  [abs].
  33. DR Gilland, RJ Jaszczak, TG Turkington, KL Greer, RE Coleman, Volume and activity quantitation with iodine-123 SPECT., Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, UNITED STATES, vol. 35 no. 10 (October, 1994), pp. 1707-13  [abs].
  34. RJ Jaszczak, DR Gilland, MW Hanson, S Jang, KL Greer, RE Coleman, Fast transmission CT for determining attenuation maps using a collimated line source, rotatable air-copper-lead attenuators and fan-beam collimation., Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, UNITED STATES, vol. 34 no. 9 (September, 1993), pp. 1577-86  [abs].
  35. RJ Jaszczak, J Li, H Wang, RE Coleman, Three-dimensional SPECT reconstruction of combined cone beam and parallel beam data., Physics in medicine and biology, ENGLAND, vol. 37 no. 3 (March, 1992), pp. 535-48  [abs].
  36. RJ Jaszczak, KL Greer, RE Coleman, SPECT using a specially designed cone beam collimator., Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, UNITED STATES, vol. 29 no. 8 (August, 1988), pp. 1398-405  [abs].
  37. RJ Jaszczak, RE Coleman, Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). Principles and instrumentation., Investigative radiology, UNITED STATES, vol. 20 no. 9 (December, 1985), pp. 897-910  [abs].
  38. RJ Jaszczak, KL Greer, CE Floyd, CC Harris, RE Coleman, Improved SPECT quantification using compensation for scattered photons., Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, UNITED STATES, vol. 25 no. 8 (August, 1984), pp. 893-900  [abs].
  39. RJ Jaszczak, Physical characteristics of SPECT systems, September, 1982., Journal of computer assisted tomography, UNITED STATES, vol. 6 no. 6 (December, 1982), pp. 1205-15 .
  40. RJ Jaszczak, FR Whitehead, CB Lim, RE Coleman, Lesion detection with single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) compared with conventional imaging., Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, UNITED STATES, vol. 23 no. 2 (February, 1982), pp. 97-102  [abs].
  41. RJ Jaszczak, LT Chang, NA Stein, FE Moore, Whole-body single-photon emission computed tomography using dual, large-field-of-view scintillation cameras., Physics in medicine and biology, ENGLAND, vol. 24 no. 6 (November, 1979), pp. 1123-43  [abs].
  42. RJ Jaszczak, PH Murphy, D Huard, JA Burdine, Radionuclide emission computed tomography of the head with 99mCc and a scintillation camera., Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, UNITED STATES, vol. 18 no. 4 (April, 1977), pp. 373-80  [abs].
  43. RJ Jaszczak, Line spread response for a scintillation camera and movable filter plate system., Physics in medicine and biology, ENGLAND, vol. 19 no. 3 (May, 1974), pp. 362-72 .
  44. RJ Jaszczak, Increased resolving power from scintillation cameras using electronic signal processing and a movable filter plate., Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, UNITED STATES, vol. 14 no. 1 (January, 1973), pp. 14-20 .
  45. RJ Jaszczak, CE Floyd, SH Manglos, KL Greer, RE Coleman, Cone beam collimation for single photon emission computed tomography: analysis, simulation, and image reconstruction using filtered backprojection., Medical physics, UNITED STATES, vol. 13 no. 4 , pp. 484-9  [abs].