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Abhijit J. Chaudhari, Ph.D. 
Clinical/Research Interests
Dr Chaudhari's research focuses on the areas of medical imaging instrumentation (high resolution PET/CT, optical tomography and microscopy, opto-acoustic imaging) and medical image processing (image reconstruction and registration, segmentation, tomographic inverse problems). He is also interested in the applications of high resolution imaging technologies to arthritic, oncologic and cardiovascular diseases.
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Sacramento, CA 95817
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Education:
Los Angeles, California
Ph.D. 2007
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
M.S. 2007
California State University, Northridge
Northridge, California
M.S. 2002
University of Pune
Pune, India
B.E. 1999
Fellowships:
Davis/Sacramento, CA
2007-2010
Biomedical Engineering/Radiology
Professional Memberships:
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Society of Nuclear Medicine
Honors and Awards:
Society of Nuclear Medicine Young Professionals Committee, Third Prize in Basic Science, 2010
Society of Nuclear Medicine Computer and Instrumentation Council Young Investigator Award, Honorable Mention, 2010
Outstanding Research Award, UC Davis Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA, 2007
President’s Associates Outstanding Graduate Student Award, California State University, Northridge, CA, 2002
Select Recent Publications:
W. L. Monsky, A. Garza, I. Kim, S. Loh, T. Lin, C. Li, J. Fisher, P. Sandhu, V. Sidhar, A. J. Chaudhari, F. Lin, L.S. Deutsch, R.D. Badawi, Treatment Planning and Volumetric Response Assessment for Yttrium- 90 Radioembolization: Semiautomated Determination of Liver Volume and Volume of Tumor Necrosis in Patients with Hepatic Malignancy, Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiology, Online first, 1-13
A. Ferrero, J. K. Poon, A. J. Chaudhari, L. R. MacDonald and R. D. Badawi, Validation of scatter fraction estimation methods for PET - a computer simulation study, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Professional Technical Group on Nuclear Science
A. J. Chaudhari, S. L. Bowen, G. W. Burkett, N. J. Packard, F. Godinez, A. A. Joshi, S. M. Naguwa, D. K. Shelton, J. C. Hunter, J. M. Boone, M. H. Buonocore and R. D. Badawi, High resolution 18F-FDG- PET with MRI for monitoring response to treatment in Rheumatoid Arthritis, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 37(5), 1047
A. A. Joshi, A. J. Chaudhari, C. Li, J. Dutta, S. R. Cherry, D. W. Shattuck, A. W. Toga and R. M. Leahy, DigiWarp: a method for deformable mouse atlas warping to surface topographic data, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 55(20), 6197-6214
A. J. Chaudhari, A. A. Joshi, Y. Wu, R. M. Leahy, S. R. Cherry, and R. D. Badawi, Spatial distortion correction and crystal identication for MRI-compatible position-sensitive avalanche photodiode-based PET scanners, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Professional Technical Group on Nuclear Science, 56(3), 549-556.
S. L. Bowen, Y. Wu, A. J. Chaudhari, L. Fu, N. J. Packard, G. W. Burkett, K. Yang, K. K. Lindfors, D. K. Shelton, A. D. Borowsky, S. R. Martinez, J. Qi, J. M. Boone, S. R. Cherry, and R. D. Badawi, Initial Characterization of a Combined and Dedicated Breast PET/CT Scanner During Human Imaging, Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 50(9), 1401-8
A. J. Chaudhari, S. Ahn, R. Levenson, S. R. Cherry, and R. M. Leahy, Excitation spectroscopy in multispectral optical fluorescence tomography: methodology, feasibility, and computer simulation studies, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 54(15), 4687-4704
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