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93
Citations
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World Ranking
222
National Ranking
83

Simon R. Cherry publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Simon R. Cherry sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 422 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Simon R. Cherry D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Simon R. Cherry sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 93 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2016 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For development of nuclear emission imaging and magnetic resonance technologies for medical science.
  • 2009 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 2008 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to molecular imaging

Overview

Simon R. Cherry is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Physics and Astronomy, with substantial contributions in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Radiation, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. They also engage in Biomedical Engineering and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine subfields.

Their work addresses a variety of topics related to medical imaging and radiation technologies, including:

  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging
  • Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques

Simon R. Cherry has authored numerous papers across several scientific venues. Among the most frequent publication venues are:

  • Physics in Medicine and Biology
  • Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences

Recent significant papers include:

  • Performance Evaluation of the uEXPLORER Total-Body PET/CT Scanner Based on NEMA NU 2-2018 with Additional Tests to Characterize PET Scanners with a Long Axial Field of View (2020, Journal of Nuclear Medicine)
  • Subsecond total-body imaging using ultrasensitive positron emission tomography (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Fully Automated, Semantic Segmentation of Whole-Body18F-FDG PET/CT Images Based on Data-Centric Artificial Intelligence (2022, Journal of Nuclear Medicine)
  • Total-Body PET Multiparametric Imaging of Cancer Using a Voxelwise Strategy of Compartmental Modeling (2021, Journal of Nuclear Medicine)
  • Ultrafast timing enables reconstruction-free positron emission imaging (2021, Nature Photonics)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Ramsey D. Badawi
  • Benjamin A. Spencer
  • Yasser G. Abdelhafez
  • Lorenzo Nardo
  • Negar Omidvari

Throughout their career, Simon R. Cherry has been recognized with several awards and honors including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2016) for development of nuclear emission imaging and magnetic resonance technologies for medical science
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2016)
  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2016)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) (2009)
  • IEEE Fellow (2008) for contributions to molecular imaging

Best Publications

  • Rapid automated algorithm for aligning and reslicing PET images.

    Roger P. Woods;Simon R. Cherry;John C. Mazziotta

  • Automated Image Registration: I. General Methods and Intrasubject, Intramodality Validation

    Roger P. Woods;Scott T. Grafton;Colin J. Holmes;Simon R. Cherry

  • Automated image registration

    R. P. Woods;J. C. Mazziotta;S. R. Cherry

  • Simultaneous PET-MRI: a new approach for functional and morphological imaging

    Martin S. Judenhofer;Hans F. Wehrl;Danny F. Newport;Ciprian Catana

  • MicroPET: a high resolution PET scanner for imaging small animals

    S.R. Cherry;Y. Shao;R.W. Silverman;K. Meadors

  • High-resolution 3D Bayesian image reconstruction using the microPET small-animal scanner

    Jinyi Qi;Richard M Leahy;Simon R Cherry;Arion Chatziioannou

  • 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

  • First Human Imaging Studies with the EXPLORER Total-Body PET Scanner*

    Ramsey Derek Badawi;Hongcheng Shi;Pengcheng Hu;Shuguang Chen

  • Performance Test of an LSO-APD Detector in a 7-T MRI Scanner for Simultaneous PET/MRI

    Bernd J Pichler;Martin S Judenhofer;Martin S Judenhofer;Ciprian Catana;Jeffrey H Walton

  • In vivo molecular and genomic imaging: new challenges for imaging physics.

    Simon R Cherry

  • Simultaneous Acquisition of Multislice PET and MR Images: Initial Results with a MR-Compatible PET Scanner

    Ciprian Catana;Yibao Wu;Martin S. Judenhofer;Jinyi Qi

  • Imaging Transgene Expression with Radionuclide Imaging Technologies

    S. S. Gambhir;H. R. Herschman;Simon R Cherry;J. R. Barrio

  • Optical imaging of Cerenkov light generation from positron-emitting radiotracers

    R. Robertson;M. S. Germanos;C. Li;Gregory Mitchell

  • A smart and versatile theranostic nanomedicine platform based on nanoporphyrin

    Yuanpei Li;Tzu Yin Lin;Yan Luo;Yan Luo;Qiangqiang Liu;Qiangqiang Liu

  • Use of positron emission tomography in animal research.

    Simon R. Cherry;Sanjiv S. Gambhir

  • Performance evaluation of the microPET P4: a PET system dedicated to animal imaging.

    Y C Tai;A Chatziioannou;S Siegel;J Young

  • Fast gradient-based methods for Bayesian reconstruction of transmission and emission PET images

    E.U. Mumcuoglu;R. Leahy;S.R. Cherry;Zhenyu Zhou

  • Performance Evaluation of the uEXPLORER Total-Body PET/CT Scanner Based on NEMA NU 2-2018 with Additional Tests to Characterize PET Scanners with a Long Axial Field of View.

    Benjamin A. Spencer;Eric Berg;Jeffrey P. Schmall;Negar Omidvari

  • Hyperspectral and multispectral bioluminescence optical tomography for small animal imaging

    Abhijit J Chaudhari;Felix Darvas;James R Bading;Rex A Moats

  • Simultaneous in vivo positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging

    Ciprian Catana;Ciprian Catana;Daniel Procissi;Yibao Wu;Martin S. Judenhofer

  • Combining anatomy and function: the path to true image fusion

    David W. Townsend;Simon R. Cherry

  • MicroPET II: design, development and initial performance of an improved microPET scanner for small-animal imaging

    Yuan Chuan Tai;Arion F. Chatziioannou;Yongfeng Yang;Robert W. Silverman

  • Application of Silicon Photomultipliers to Positron Emission Tomography

    Emilie Roncali;Simon R. Cherry

  • Bayesian reconstruction of PET images: methodology and performance analysis.

    Erkan Ü Mumcuoglu;Erkan Ü Mumcuoglu;Richard M Leahy;Simon R Cherry

Frequent Co-Authors

Jinyi Qi
Jinyi Qi University of California, Davis
Michael E. Phelps
Michael E. Phelps University of California, Los Angeles
Richard M. Leahy
Richard M. Leahy University of Southern California
Sanjiv S. Gambhir
Sanjiv S. Gambhir Stanford University
Jorge R. Barrio
Jorge R. Barrio University of California, Los Angeles
Harvey R. Herschman
Harvey R. Herschman University of California, Los Angeles
John C. Mazziotta
John C. Mazziotta University of California, Los Angeles
Karen L. Bales
Karen L. Bales University of California, Davis
Roger P. Woods
Roger P. Woods University of California, Los Angeles
Kit S. Lam
Kit S. Lam University of California, Davis

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