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Paul E. Kinahan, Ph.D.

Paul E. Kinahan, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Radiology, Adjunct Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering
  • Director of PET/CT Physics
UW Campus Mail Box 357987

Seattle, WA 98195
Email: kinahan@u.washington.edu
Phone: (206) 543-0236

Websites:

Education:

  1. BASc 1985 University of British Columbia (Engineering Physics)
  2. MASc 1988 University of British Columbia (Engineering Physics)
  3. PhD 1994 University of Pennsylvania (Bioengineering)

Biography:

Paul Kinahan is a member of the UW Imaging Research Laboratory [http://www.rad.washington.edu/research/our-research/groups/irl]. He was part of the group that built the first prototype combined PET/CT scanner and has also contributed to the current class of data processing image reconstruction algorithms used in PET/CT oncology imaging. He moved to the University of Washington in 2001 where he continues his research in PET/CT imaging. He has served on committees for the RSNA, AAPM, SNM, NIH, and IEEE, and is on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions Nuclear Science: Nuclear Medicine Imaging Science where he was also Editor. He currently chair of the joint AAPM/SNM Quantitative Imaging Initiative PET/CT committee.