Telephone: (631) 344-2752
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e-mail: woody@bnl.gov

Particle Detectors, Electronics, Instrumentation for Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging

Research Interests

Research interests are primarily in the area of particle detectors and instrumentation for high energy and nuclear physics and medical imaging. This includes various types of scintillating crystals (LSO, BaF2, CsI, PbWO4) and other types of scintillation detectors, optical readout devices (APDs, PMTs etc) and their associated electronics, laser systems, and gas detectors (in particular, Gas Electron Multipliers - GEMs) for particle tracking and imaging applications. Other primary research interests are in relativistic heavy ion physics with the PHENIX Experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven

Education & Concurrent Positions

B.A. Johns Hopkins University 1973
M.A. Johns Hopkins University 1974
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University 1978

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University (SLAC) 1978-1979, Assistant Physicist, Brookhaven National Lab 1979 - 1981, Associate Physicist, Brookhaven National Lab 1981 - 1983, Physicist - Brookhaven National Lab 1983 - 2001, Senior Physicist - Brookhaven National Lab 2001 - present, Group Leader, BNL PHENIX Group 2001- present, American Physical Society Fellow - 2002

Selected Publications

The RatCAP Conscious Small Animal PET Tomograph,
C.Woody, V.Dzhordzhadze, R.Fontaine, S.Junnakar, A.Kandasamy, A.Kriplani, S.Krishnamoorthy, R.Lecomte, P.O’Connor, C.Page, J.-F.Pratte, M.Purschke, V.Radeka, I.Rampil, D.Schlyer, S.Shokouhi, S.Southekal, S.Stoll, P.Vaska, A.Villanueva, B.Yu; Conference Record Proceedings, paper JRM1-6, 2004 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imging Conference, Rome, Italy, Oct 16-27, 2004.

RatCAP: A Small,Head-Mouted PET Tomograph for Imaging the Brain of an Awake Rat,
C.Woody, A.Kriplani, P.O'Connor, J-F.Pratte, V.Radeka, S.Rescia, D.Schlyer, S.Shokouhi, S.Stoll, P.Vaska, A.Villaneuva, N.Volkow, B.Yu; Nucl. Inst. Meth. A527 1/2, pp. 166-170 2004.  

RatCAP: Miniaturized Head-Mounted PET for Conscious Rodent Brain Imaging,
P.Vaska, C.L.Woody, D.J.Schlyer, S.Shokouhi, S.P.Stoll, J-F.Pratte, P.O'Connor, S.Junnarkar, S.Rescia, B.Yu, M.Purschke, A.Kandasamy, A.Villanueva, A.Kriplani, V.Radeka, N.Volkow, R.Lecomte, R.Fontaine; IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.,Vol.51 ,No. 5, pp. 2718 – 2722, 2004.

Front-end Electronincs for the RatCAP Mobile Animal PET Scanner,
J-F.Pratte, G.De Geronimo, S.Junnarkar, P.O'Connor, B.Yu; S.Robert, V.Radeka, C.Woody, S.Stoll, P.Vaska, A.Kandasamy, R.Lecomte, R.Fontaine; IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 51, No.4, pp. 1318-1323, 2004.

A Non-invasive LSO-APD Blood Radioactivity Monitor for PET Imaging Studies,
S.Shokouhi, S.P.Stoll, A.Villaneuva, P.Vaska, D.Schlyer, C.Woody, B.Yu, P.O'Connor, J-F.Pratte, V.Radeka, N.Volkow, J.S.Fowler; IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol.50, pp. 1447-1461, 2003.  

Light Output Measurements of LSO Single Crystals and 4x8 Arrays; Comparision of Experiment with Monte Carlo Simulations,
A. Kriplani, S.P.Stoll, D.Schlyer, S.Shokouhi, P.Vaska, A.Villanueva, C.L.Woody; Conference Record Proceedings, paper M14-183, 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imging Conference, Portland, OR, Oct. 19-25, 2003

A Study of Beta Scintillation Microprobes,
C.L.Woody, S.P.Stoll,D,J,Schlyer, M Gerasimov, P.Vaska, S.Shokouhi, N.Volkow, J.S.Fowler, S.L.Dewey; IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 49, No.5, pp. 2208-2212, 2002