Terry M. Button, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Radiology
Dr. Terry Button is an Associate Professor of Radiology at Stony Brook University Medical Center, Director of the Medical Physics Track in Biomedical Engineering, and Director of Medical Imaging Technology program in the School of Health Technology and Management. He received his BS degree in Physics/Math from SUNY Cortland in 1975, MS in Nuclear Physics at N. Texas State University in 1978, and his PhD degree in Biophysics at SUNY Buffalo in 1989. Dr. Button was appointed Chair in the University Radiation Protection Committee, MRI Panel Chair in the American Board of Medical Physics, and Director of Radiological Sciences in the Health Sciences Department in the past year. Dr. Button's research work in the past has focused on Advanced Magnetic Resonance Mammography and Dynamic Infrared Imaging. His current research projects are infrared imaging, breast cancer detection, magnetic resonance and computer aided diagnosis (CAD).
Gene Gindi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Radiology and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Gene Gindi is an Associate Professor of Radiology and Electrical & Computing Engineering at Stony Brook University Medical Center. He received his BS degree in applied physics at Caltech. He continued his education at the University of Arizona attaining his M.S. and Ph.D in Optical Sciences. Dr. Gindi's research concentration is in SPECT technology (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography). His projects include fast reconstruction algorithms, lesion detection in SPECT by human and mathematical observers, propagation of model error in SPECT. He is also currently working on Tomosynthesis: construction of digital breast phantoms.
Haifang Li, Ph.D.
University Support Specialist
Dr. Li joined Stony Brook University in 1992 as a University Support Specialist. He attended the University of Science and Technology of China earning his bachelors of science in Chemistry. He continued his education at Stony Brook University earning his PhD in 1991. His current research projects include; MR spectroscopy studies of physiological conditions, DCE (dynamic contrast enhancement) studies on breast cancer detection and Dynamic IR imaging studies. Areas of Research Interest include DICOM and Computer Applications.
Jerome Z. Liang, Ph.D.
Professor
Dr. Liang is a Professor, in the Departments of Radiology, Physics & Astronomy, Computer Science, and BME at Stony Brook University. He is also part-time professor in the Department of Technical Physics, Peking University of China and a collaborator for the Medical Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
He attended Lanzhou University of China earning his B.S. degree in physics in 1982. He continued his education in City University of New York, NY attaining his PhD in physics in 1987. His current research projects include, developing Virtual Colonoscopy Technologies and developing Texture-Based Computer-aided Detection/Diagnosis. Other areas of research interest include Image Reconstruction, Processing and Visualization.
If you are interested in participating in research, please contact Aimee Minton at (631) 444-2471 or Veronica Geronimo at (631) 444-2409.
Wei Zhao Ph.D.
Professor
Dr. Wei Zhao is an Associate Professor of Radiology at Stony Brook University Medical Center. She attended Tsinghua University, in Beijing China and received her bachelors in Biomedical Engineering. She continued her education at the University of Toronto, Toronto Canada and received her Masters and Ph.D in Medical Biophysics. She joined Stony Brook University in 1999 and participates in various research activities. Her current projects include the development of flat-panel detectors with high gain for low dose x-ray imaging and computed tomography, the investigation of digital breast tomosynthesis with plat panel detectors for early detection of breast cancer, as well as the development of scintillators and avalanche photo detectors for x-ray and gamma ray imaging applications.
