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  • 2013 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to quantitative imaging of positron emission tomography

Overview

Joel S. Karp is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields related to Medicine and Physics and Astronomy, with significant contributions in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Radiation, Biomedical Engineering, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's main topics of study include Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications, Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research.

Joel S. Karp's recent published papers include:

  • State of the art in total body PET, 2020, EJNMMI Physics
  • Total Body PET: Why, How, What for?, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences
  • Update on latest advances in time-of-flight PET, 2020, Physica Medica
  • Benefit of Improved Performance with State-of-the Art Digital PET/CT for Lesion Detection in Oncology, 2020, Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • Quantitative PET in the 2020s: a roadmap, 2020, Physics in Medicine and Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Joel S. Karp include:

  • Suleman Surti
  • Austin R. Pantel
  • Margaret E. Daube-Witherspoon
  • Varsha Viswanath
  • David A. Mankoff

The most common publication venues for Joel S. Karp's work are:

  • Physics in Medicine and Biology
  • IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences
  • Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • PET Clinics

In recognition of their contributions, Joel S. Karp was named an IEEE Fellow in 2013 for contributions to quantitative imaging of positron emission tomography.

Best Publications

  • Performance of Philips Gemini TF PET/CT Scanner with Special Consideration for Its Time-of-Flight Imaging Capabilities

    Suleman Surti;Austin Kuhn;Matthew E Werner;Amy E Perkins

  • Total-Body PET: Maximizing Sensitivity to Create New Opportunities for Clinical Research and Patient Care.

    Simon R. Cherry;Terry Jones;Joel S. Karp;Jinyi Qi

  • Benefit of Time-of-Flight in PET: Experimental and Clinical Results

    Joel S. Karp;Suleman Surti;Margaret E. Daube-Witherspoon;Gerd Muehllehner

  • Recent developments in time-of-flight PET

    Stefaan Vandenberghe;Ekaterina Mikhaylova;Ester D'Hoe;Pieter Mollet

  • PET Performance Measurements Using the NEMA NU 2-2001 Standard

    Margaret E. Daube-Witherspoon;Joel S. Karp;Michael E. Casey;Frank P DiFilippo

  • Quantitative imaging of iodine-124 with PET

    Keith S. Pentlow;Martin C. Graham;Richard M. Lambrecht;Farhad Daghighian

  • Improvement in Lesion Detection with Whole-Body Oncologic Time-of-Flight PET

    Georges El Fakhri;Suleman Surti;Cathryn M. Trott;Joshua Scheuermann

  • Performance standards in positron emission tomography.

    Joel S. Karp;Margaret E. Daube-Witherspoon;Edward J. Hoffman;Thomas K. Lewellen

  • PennPET Explorer: Design and Preliminary Performance of a Whole-Body Imager

    Joel S. Karp;Varsha Viswanath;Michael J. Geagan;Gerd Muehllehner

  • Optimization of a fully 3D single scatter simulation algorithm for 3D PET

    Roberto Accorsi;Lars-Eric Adam;Matthew E Werner;Joel S Karp

  • Advances in time-of-flight PET.

    Suleman Surti;Joel S. Karp

  • PennPET Explorer: Human Imaging on a Whole-Body Imager

    Austin R. Pantel;Varsha Viswanath;Margaret E. Daube-Witherspoon;Jacob G. Dubroff

  • Qualification of PET Scanners for Use in Multicenter Cancer Clinical Trials: The American College of Radiology Imaging Network Experience

    Joshua S. Scheuermann;Janet R. Saffer;Joel S. Karp;Anthony M. Levering

  • Three-dimensional image reconstruction for PET by multi-slice rebinning and axial image filtering

    R M Lewitt;G Muehllehner;J S Karp

  • Application of the row action maximum likelihood algorithm with spherical basis functions to clinical PET imaging

    M.E. Daube-Witherspoon;S. Matej;J.S. Karp;R.M. Lewitt

  • Design of a lanthanum bromide detector for time-of-flight PET

    A. Kuhn;S. Surti;J.S. Karp;P.S. Raby

  • Constrained Fourier space method for compensation of missing data in emission computed tomography

    J.S. Karp;G. Muehllehner;R.M. Lewitt

  • Performance evaluation of the MOLECUBES β-CUBE-a high spatial resolution and high sensitivity small animal PET scanner utilizing monolithic LYSO scintillation detectors

    Srilalan Krishnamoorthy;Eric Blankemeyer;Pieter Mollet;Suleman Surti

  • Noninvasive detection of tumor hypoxia using the 2-nitroimidazole [18F]EF1.

    S. M. Evans;A. V. Kachur;C. Y. Shiue;Roland Hustinx

  • Imaging performance of a-PET: a small animal PET camera

    S. Surti;J.S. Karp;A.E. Perkins;C.A. Cardi

  • Triple energy window scatter correction technique in PET

    Lingxiong Shao;R. Freifelder;J.S. Karp

  • Total Body PET: Why, How, What for?

    Suleman Surti;Austin R. Pantel;Joel S. Karp

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerd Muehllehner
Gerd Muehllehner University of Pennsylvania
Paul E. Kinahan
Paul E. Kinahan University of Washington
Abass Alavi
Abass Alavi University of Pennsylvania
David A. Mankoff
David A. Mankoff University of Pennsylvania
Stefaan Vandenberghe
Stefaan Vandenberghe Ghent University
Hank F. Kung
Hank F. Kung University of Pennsylvania
Michael E. Casey
Michael E. Casey Siemens (United States)
Barry A. Siegel
Barry A. Siegel Washington University in St. Louis
N. S. Lockyer
N. S. Lockyer University of Pennsylvania
Georges El Fakhri
Georges El Fakhri Harvard University

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