Hiya! My name is Zipai Wang, a second year PhD student at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University.
Providing better healthcare to the public has been my goal since I was 16 years old. At that age, I was admitted to the hospital due to the EB virus infection. While being treated at the emergency department, I witnessed how the lung cancer took away a mid-aged patient beside my bed. I vividly remember the feeling of helplessness as I witnessed him tortured by the cancer. The empathy I feel towards him, and millions of others becomes my intrinsic motivation for paving my path into the medical physics research field, with the essential wish to improve our ability to fight cancer diseases.
Collaborate with Dr. Goldan at the department of Radiology, Stony Brook Medicine, I am carrying out numbers of research projects aimed to develop the next generation of PET imaging system based on our Prism-PET detector modules. The projects I am working on includes
- Iterative image reconstruction strategy with integrated DOI information
- Component based normalization model of non-cylindrical PET scanner
- List-mode level attenuation and head motion correction