Habib Zaidi

Habib Zaidi is Senior Physicist and Head of the PET Instrumentation and Neuroimaging Laboratory at Geneva University Hospital. He received the Ph.D. degree and habilitation (P.D) in medical physics from Geneva University. His academic accomplishments in the area of quantitative PET imaging have been well recognized by the Medical School of Geneva University, which elected him to become faculty member. Dr. Zaidi is actively involved in developing imaging solutions for cutting-edge interdisciplinary biomedical research and clinical diagnosis in addition to lecturing undergraduate and postgraduate courses on medical physics and medical imaging. His research centres on modelling nuclear medical imaging systems using the Monte Carlo method, dosimetry, image correction, reconstruction, and quantification techniques in emission tomography as well as statistical image analysis and novel design of high-resolution PET scanners. He was guest editor for two special issues dedicated to medical image segmentation and PET instrumentation and novel quantitative techniques and serves as member of the editorial board or scientific reviewer for leading journals in medical physics, nuclear medicine, and scientific computing. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and Vice Chair of the professional relations committee of the IOMP. He is a recipient of many awards and distinctions among which the prestigious 2003 Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award given by the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee of the IEEE and the 2004 Mark Tetalman Memorial Award given by the Society of Nuclear Medicine. Dr. Zaidi has been an invited speaker of many keynote lectures at an international level, has authored over 160 publications, including high-ranking peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters, and is the editor of two textbooks on therapeutic applications of Monte Carlo calculations in nuclear medicine and quantitative analysis in nuclear medicine imaging.

Biography Updated on 14 June 2007

Personal Home Page

http://pinlab.hcuge.ch/

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Quantitative analysis of template-based attenuation compensation in 3D brain PET
    Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 28–38, 2007
  2. Is radionuclide transmission scanning obsolete for dual-modality PET/CT systems?
    European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 815–818, 2007
  3. Novel Quantitative Techniques for Assessing Regional and Global Function and Structure Based on Modern Imaging Modalities: Implications for Normal Variation, Aging and Diseased States
    Seminars in Nuclear Medicine, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 223–239, 2007
  4. Strategies for attenuation compensation in neurological PET studies
    NeuroImage, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 518–541, 2007
  5. Novel approach to stationary transmission scanning using Compton scattered radiation
    Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 52, no. 15, pp. 4615–4632, 2007
  6. 18F-choline and/or 11C-acetate positron emission tomography: detection of residual or progressive subclinical disease at very low prostate-specific antigen values (<1�ng/mL) after radical prostatectomy
    BJU International, vol. 99, no. 6, pp. 1415–1420, 2007
  7. Fully automated segmentation of oncological PET volumes using a combined multiscale and statistical model
    Medical Physics, vol. 34, no. 2, p. 722, 2007
  8. Impact of X-ray tube settings and metallic leads on neurological PET imaging when using CT-based attenuation correction
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 571, no. 1-2, pp. 411–414, 2007
  9. Simultaneous PET/MR will replace PET/CT as the molecular multimodality imaging platform of choice
    Medical Physics, vol. 34, no. 5, p. 1525, 2007
  10. The Mathematical Foundations of 3D Compton Scatter Emission Imaging
    International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, vol. 2007, Article ID 92780, 11 pages, 2007
  11. Computed tomography-based attenuation correction in neurological positron emission tomography: evaluation of the effect of the X-ray tube voltage on quantitative analysis
    Nuclear Medicine Communications, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 339–346, 2006
  12. The New Challenges of Brain PET Imaging Technology
    Current Medical Imaging Reviews, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 3–13, 2006
  13. An Event Driven Read-Out System for a Novel PET Scanner With Compton Enhanced 3-D Gamma Reconstruction
    IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 1156–1161, 2006
  14. Medical image segmentation: Quo Vadis
    Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 84, no. 2-3, pp. 63–65, 2006
  15. Comparative assessment of statistical brain MR image segmentation algorithms and their impact on partial volume correction in PET
    NeuroImage, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 1591–1607, 2006
  16. Assessment of 18F-FDG-Leukocyte Imaging to Monitor Rejection After Pancreatic Islet Transplantation
    Transplantation Proceedings, vol. 38, no. 9, pp. 3033–3034, 2006
  17. Optimization of the effective light attenuation length of YAP:Ce and LYSO:Ce crystals for a novel geometrical PET concept
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 564, no. 1, pp. 506–514, 2006
  18. Assessment of errors caused by X-ray scatter and use of contrast medium when using CT-based attenuation correction in PET
    European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, vol. 33, no. 11, pp. 1301–1313, 2006
  19. 11C-acetate PET in the early evaluation of prostate cancer recurrence
    European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 185–196, 2006
  20. Functional segmentation of dynamic nuclear images by cross-?B-energy operator
    Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 84, no. 2-3, pp. 146–152, 2006
  21. Atlas-guided non-uniform attenuation correction in cerebral 3D PET imaging
    NeuroImage, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 278–286, 2005
  22. Development and validation of MCNP4C-based Monte Carlo simulator for fan- and cone-beam x-ray CT
    Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 50, no. 20, pp. 4863–4885, 2005
  23. Positron-Emission Tomography Imaging of Early Events after Transplantation of Islets of Langerhans
    Transplantation, vol. 79, no. 3, pp. 353–355, 2005
  24. Novel design of a parallax free Compton enhanced PET scanner
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 525, no. 1-2, pp. 268–274, 2004
  25. Correction for image degrading factors is essential for accurate quantification of brain function using PET
    Medical Physics, vol. 31, no. 3, p. 423, 2004
  26. Monte Carlo simulation of x-ray spectra in diagnostic radiology and mammography using MCNP4C
    Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 49, no. 21, pp. 4897–4917, 2004
  27. Feasibility of a novel design of high resolution parallax-free Compton enhanced PET scanner dedicated to brain research
    Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 49, no. 12, pp. 2547–2562, 2004
  28. Scatter modelling and compensation in emission tomography
    European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 761–782, 2004
  29. Attenuation compensation in cerebral 3D PET: effect of the attenuation map on absolute and relative quantitation
    European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 52–63, 2004
  30. Assessment of the impact of model-based scatter correction on [18F]-FDG 3D brain PET in healthy subjects using statistical parametric mapping
    NeuroImage, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 1848–1856, 2003
  31. Magnetic resonance imaging-guided attenuation and scatter corrections in three-dimensional brain positron emission tomography
    Medical Physics, vol. 30, no. 5, p. 937, 2003
  32. Which attenuation coefficient to use in combined attenuation and scatter corrections for quantitative brain SPET?
    European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, vol. 29, no. 7, pp. 967–969, 2002
  33. Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 47, no. 7, pp. 1143–1160, 2002
  34. Nuclear Medicine Communications, vol. 22, no. 11, pp. 1181–1184, 2001
  35. Development of new mixed Lux(RE3+)1-xAP:Ce scintillators (RE3+=Y3+ or Gd3+):comparison with other Ce-doped or intrinsic scintillating crystals
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 443, no. 2-3, pp. 331–341, 2000
  36. Comparative evaluation of scatter correction techniques in 3D positron emission tomography
    European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, vol. 27, no. 12, pp. 1813–1826, 2000
  37. Addendum to “Relevance of accurate Monte Carlo modeling in nuclear medical imaging” [Med. Phys. 26, 574–608 (1999)]
    Medical Physics, vol. 27, no. 4, p. 816, 2000
  38. Comparative evaluation of photon cross-section libraries for materials of interest in PET Monte Carlo simulations
    IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 2722–2735, 2000
  39. Assessment of different computational models for generation of x-ray spectra in diagnostic radiology and mammography
    Medical Physics, vol. 32, no. 6, p. 1660, 1999
  40. An object-oriented Monte Carlo simulator for 3D cylindrical positron tomographs
    Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 133–145, 1999
  41. Relevance of accurate Monte Carlo modeling in nuclear medical imaging
    Medical Physics, vol. 26, no. 4, p. 574, 1999
  42. Implementation of an environment for Monte Carlo simulation of fully 3-D positron tomography on a high-performance parallel platform
    Parallel Computing, vol. 24, no. 9-10, pp. 1523–1536, 1998