Awards and Honors: June 28, 2007

Posted 12:21 PM, June 28, 2007, by jaruiz

(From left to right: Martin P. Sandler, MD, FACNP, (outgoing SNM President); Sven N. Reske, MD, (awardee); Andrew Quon, MD, (awardee); Tore Bach-Gansmo, MD, PhD, (awardee); and Heinrich R. Schelbert, MD, PhD, (editor-in-chief, The Journal of Nuclear Medicine)

Andrew Quon, MD, assistant professor of radiology and nuclear medicine; Sandy Napel, PhD, professor of radiology and co-director of the 3D Medical Imaging Laboratory; Chris Beaulieu, MD, PhD, professor of radiology; and Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, professor of radiology and bioengineering; director of the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford; and chief of the Nuclear Medicine Division, have been awarded the 2007 Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) Best Clinical Article for their paper entitled "'Flying Through' and 'Flying Around' a PET/CT Scan: Pilot Study and Development of 3D Integrated 18F-FDG PET/CT for Virtual Bronchoscopy and Colonoscopy" published in the July 2006 Journal of Nuclear Medicine. In their article, they present a new imaging and processing protocol that can visually remove the organs and highlight tumors and cancerous "hot spots" in 3D positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) images.