Associate Professor of Radiology David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles CA
Director, Biomedical Physics Graduate Program UCLA Biomedical Physics Chair, MESA Project Helical CT Subcommittee of the CT Imaging Committee Committee Member on CT Image Quality and Radiation Dose International Commission on Radiological Units & Measurement (ICRU)
2002-2004
Graduate Faculty Advisor UCLA Biomedical Physics
1998
ABR Certification: Diagnostic Radiological Physics
1994-2001
Assistant Professor of Radiology UCLA Radiological Sciences
1993-1994
Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Thoracic Radiology UCLA Radiological Sciences
1993
Doctor of Philosophy, Biomedical Physics UCLA Medical School, Los Angeles CA
1985-1988
Instructor: Electrical Engineering Pennsylvania State University University Park PA
1984-1985
Project Engineer North Carolina Alternative Energy Corp. Res. Tri. Park, NC
1981-1984
Assistant Engineer American Electric Power Service Corp. Columbus OH
1980
Master of Science,Electrical Engineering Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh PA
Research Interests
Dr. McNitt-Gray's research interests involve investigations into X-ray computed tomography (CT) imaging with the goal of maximizing the information that can be extracted from the resulting image data. These activities include research into:
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the physics of CT image acquisition including estimating radiation dose and assessing image quality
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image processing techniques to analyze and extract information from the CT image data, including computer aided detection and diagnosis (CAD)
Monte Carlo Based Patient Radiation Dose from CT
The long-term goal of this research is to
create methods to an accurately estimate radiation dose to patients undergoing CT scanning. We propose a Monte Carlo-based modeling approach that overcomes the limitations of previous methods by accurately modeling MultiDetector CT source characteristics, the effects of different scan parameters and realistic patient models of different sizes, ages and genders.
This project represents collaboration between investigators at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Tx and the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Certificate of Merit for Education Exhibits: Report of CT Dose Indices Derived from Measurements Made on all Multi-Detector Row CT Scanners Used in the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST)
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Cody, D., Cagnon, C., Larke, F., McNitt-Gray, M., Kruger, R., Flynn, M. et al
Abstract
RSNA 2007
2006
SPIE Cum Laude Award for the Best Poster in the Special Session on Computer-Aided Diagnosis The Influence of CT Dose and Reconstruction Parameters on Automated Detection of Small Pulmonary Nodules
R. Ochs, E. Angel, K. L. Boedeker, I. Petkovska, C. Panknin, J. G. Goldin, D. R. Aberle, M. F. McNitt-Gray, M. S. Brown
SPIE Medical Imaging Conference
2003
Certificate of Merit: Education Exhibits The Lung Image Database Consortium: Fundamental Issues for the Creation of a Resource for the Image Processing Research Community.
McNitt-Gray, M., Armato, S., McLennan, G., Meyer, C., Yankelevitz, D., Croft, B. Abstract
Radiological Society of North America
