{"id":40,"date":"2022-01-17T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/richarddansereau\/?p=40"},"modified":"2022-02-15T10:35:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T15:35:01","slug":"40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/richarddansereau\/2022\/40\/","title":{"rendered":"Zahra Ashouri Talouki defends her PhD thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-46 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/richarddansereau\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zahra-Fig2-240x227.png\" alt=\"Example PET image reconstructions\" width=\"240\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/richarddansereau\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zahra-Fig2-240x227.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/richarddansereau\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zahra-Fig2-400x379.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/richarddansereau\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zahra-Fig2-160x152.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/richarddansereau\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zahra-Fig2-768x728.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/richarddansereau\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zahra-Fig2-360x341.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/richarddansereau\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zahra-Fig2.png 1532w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70%;\">\n<h3>Zahra successfully defended her PhD thesis<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><b>Kernel-Based PET Image Reconstruction using Dynamic PET and MR Anatomical Information<br \/>\n<\/b><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In this thesis, we explored PET image reconstruction using kernel expectation maximization (KEM) using multiscale wavelet kernels, MR prior information, and feature-driven spatial weighting.\u00a0This work was co-supervised with\u00a0<a class=\"text-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawaheart.ca\/physician-researcher-profile\/dekemp-robert\">Dr. Robert deKemp<\/a>\u00a0and was done in\u00a0conjunction with\u00a0<a class=\"text-primary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawaheart.ca\/\">The University of Ottawa Heart Institute<\/a>. We also had great support from\u00a0<a class=\"text-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/bmegg.ucdavis.edu\/people\/guobao-wang\">Prof.\u00a0Guobao Wang<\/a>\u00a0at the University of California, Davis.<\/p>\n<p>Zahra now moves on to a post-doctoral position with\u00a0<a class=\"text-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/nrc.canada.ca\/en\/\">National Research Council Canada (NRC)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Zahra!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zahra successfully defended her PhD thesis Kernel-Based PET Image Reconstruction using Dynamic PET and MR Anatomical Information In this thesis, we explored PET image reconstruction using kernel expectation maximization (KEM) using multiscale wavelet kernels, MR prior information, and feature-driven spatial weighting.\u00a0This work was co-supervised with\u00a0Dr. Robert deKemp\u00a0and was done in\u00a0conjunction with\u00a0The University of Ottawa Heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Zahra Ashouri Talouki defends her PhD thesis - Prof. Richard M. 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