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79
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25077
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Otto Zhou is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within the fields of medicine and engineering, with a particular focus on medical imaging and biomedical engineering.

Their work covers main fields of study including:

  • Medicine
  • Engineering

Zhou's subfields of focus incorporate aspects of radiology and imaging technologies, including:

  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Oral Surgery

The scientist's main topics of research encompass:

  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging
  • Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging
  • Carbon Nanotubes in Composites
  • Dental Radiography and Imaging
  • Radiation Dose and Imaging
  • Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques

Notable recent publications by Otto Zhou include:

  • Evaluation of carbon nanotube x-ray source array for stationary head computed tomography, 2020, Medical Physics
  • Immune-Mediated Effects of Microplanar Radiotherapy with a Small Animal Irradiator, 2021, Cancers
  • Feasibility of dual-energy CBCT by spectral filtration of a dual-focus CNT x-ray source, 2022, PLoS ONE
  • The role of stationary intraoral tomosynthesis in reducing proximal overlap in bitewing radiography, 2020, Dentomaxillofacial Radiology
  • Evaluation of the feasibility of a multisource CBCT for maxillofacial imaging, 2023, Physics in Medicine and Biology

The venues where Otto Zhou has published frequently include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Medical Imaging 2020: Physics of Medical Imaging
  • Medical Imaging 2022: Physics of Medical Imaging
  • Physics in Medicine and Biology
  • Medical Physics

Frequent collaborators working with Zhou are:

  • Jianping Lü
  • Christina R. Inscoe
  • Yueh Z. Lee
  • Alex J. Billingsley
  • Derrek Spronk

Otto Zhou was awarded the title of Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Applications of Carbon Nanotubes

    Pulickel M. Ajayan;Otto Z. Zhou

  • Alignment of carbon nanotubes in a polymer matrix by mechanical stretching

    L. Jin;C. Bower;O. Zhou

  • New Phases of C60 Synthesized at High Pressure

    Y. Iwasa;T. Arima;R. M. Fleming;T. Siegrist

  • Plasma-induced alignment of carbon nanotubes

    Chris Bower;Wei Zhu;Sungho Jin;Otto Z Zhou

  • Large current density from carbon nanotube field emitters

    W. Zhu;C. Bower;O. Zhou;G. Kochanski

  • Nucleation and growth of carbon nanotubes by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition

    Chris Bower;Otto Zhou;Wei Zhu;D. J. Werder

  • Deformation of carbon nanotubes in nanotube–polymer composites

    C. Bower;R. Rosen;L. Jin;J. Han

  • Generation of continuous and pulsed diagnostic imaging x-ray radiation using a carbon-nanotube-based field-emission cathode

    G. Z. Yue;Q. Qiu;Bo Gao;Y. Cheng

  • Defects in carbon nanostructures.

    Otto Z Zhou;R. M. Fleming;D. W. Murphy;C. H. Chen

  • ELECTROCHEMICAL INTERCALATION OF SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES WITH LITHIUM

    B. Gao;A. Kleinhammes;X.P. Tang;C. Bower

  • Work functions and valence band states of pristine and Cs-intercalated single-walled carbon nanotube bundles

    Satoru Suzuki;Chris Bower;Yoshio Watanabe;Otto Zhou

  • Lithium intercalation into opened single-wall carbon nanotubes: storage capacity and electronic properties.

    H. Shimoda;B. Gao;X. P. Tang;A. Kleinhammes

  • Enhanced saturation lithium composition in ball-milled single-walled carbon nanotubes

    B. Gao;C. Bower;J. D. Lorentzen;L. Fleming

  • STRUCTURE AND BONDING IN ALKALI-METAL-DOPED C60

    Otto Z Zhou;John E. Fischer;Nicole Coustel;Stefan Kycia

  • Materials science of carbon nanotubes: fabrication, integration, and properties of macroscopic structures of carbon nanotubes.

    Otto Zhou;Hideo Shimoda;Bo Gao;Soojin Oh

  • Electron field emission from carbon nanotubes

    Yuan Cheng;Otto Zhou

  • Superconductivity at 40K in cesium doped C60

    Thomas Palstra;O. Zhou;Y. Iwasa;P.E. Sulewski

  • Fabrication and Properties of Composites of Poly(ethylene oxide) and Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes

    Huaizhi Geng;Rachel Rosen;Bo Zheng;Hideo Shimoda

  • Alloy Formation in Nanostructured Silicon

    Bo Gao;Saion Sinha;Saion Sinha;Les Fleming;Otto Z Zhou

  • Fabrication and electron field emission properties of carbon nanotube films by electrophoretic deposition

    Bo Gao;Guozhen Z. Yue;Qi Qiu;Yuan Cheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianping Lu
Jianping Lu University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jie Tang
Jie Tang National Institute for Materials Science
Lu Chang Qin
Lu Chang Qin University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John E. Fischer
John E. Fischer University of Pennsylvania
R. M. Fleming
R. M. Fleming Sandia National Laboratories
Robert C. Haddon
Robert C. Haddon University of California, Riverside
Jie Liu
Jie Liu Duke University
Matthew J. Rosseinsky
Matthew J. Rosseinsky University of Liverpool
Yoshihiro Iwasa
Yoshihiro Iwasa University of Tokyo
Sungho Jin
Sungho Jin University of California, San Diego

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