The United States Department of Energy and National Institutes of Health Collaboration: Medical Care Advances by Discovery in Radiation Detection
A National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science virtual workshop on shared general topics was held in July of 2021 and reported on in this publication in January of 2023. Following the inaugural 2021 joint meeting representatives from the DOE Office of Science and NIH met to discuss organizing a second joint workshop that would concentrate on radiation detection to bring together teams from both agencies and their grantee populations to stimulate collaboration and efficiency. To meet this scientific mission within the NIH and DOE radiation detection space, the organizers assembled workshop sessions covering the state-of-the-art in cameras, detectors, and sensors for radiation external and internal (diagnostic and therapeutic) to human, data acquisition and electronics, image reconstruction and processing, and the application of artificial intelligence. NIH and DOE are committed to continuing the process of convening a joint workshop every 12-24 months. This Special Report recaps the findings of this second workshop. Beyond showing only the innovations and areas of success, important gaps in our knowledge were defined and presented. We summarize by defining four areas of greatest opportunity and need that emerged from the unique, dynamic dialogue the in-person workshop provided the attendees.
Authors
- A.G. Weisenberger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8747-4879)
- Kepler Domurat‐Sousa
- C. Keppel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7516-8292)
- Georgia D. Tourassi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9418-9638)
- Jeffrey C. Buchsbaum (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8695-3448)
- Makoto Asai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8612-3789)
- Jacek Capala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7631-0310)
- Guang‐Hong Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2263-1028)
- Ceferino Obcemea
- Wei Zhao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6182-4746)
- K. Vetter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8271-903X)
- Allison H. Squires (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2417-1432)
- Larry L. Ruckman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0457-0644)
- Brian W. Pogue (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9887-670X)
- P. Guèye
- Ge Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2656-7705)
- M. E. Christy
- Babak Saboury
- Georges El Fakhri
Institutions
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (US)
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- Yale Cancer Center (US)
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (US)
- Yale University (US)
- University of Chicago (US)
- National Cancer Institute (US)
- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (US)
- Imaging Center (US)
- Stony Brook University (US)
- Michigan State University (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Medical Physics
- Published
- 2024-08-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.17333
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Particle Detector Development and Performance
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.66
Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Battelle
- UT-Battelle
- National Institutes of Health
- Office of Science
- National Cancer Institute
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
- Nuclear Physics
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility