UB Research Presentation Wins Top Prize At Symposium

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A research presentation describing a new medical-imaging technique developed and evaluated by a team of UB researchers that could lead to improved diagnostic imaging using lower doses of radiation has won the top prize at the SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging.

It is the second year in a row a UB team has won the prestigious Blue Ribbon Award in a competition that included 50 poster presentations submitted by top medical-imaging researchers from industry and academia.

The UB research team compared the quality of images obtained using a cesium iodide (CsI) image receptor with those obtained using an amorphous selenium (a-Se) image receptor.

The comparison was based on the image contrast, contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) and figure of merit (FOM) with or without region of interest (ROI) filters.

Parinaz Massoumzadeh, who received a doctorate in radiation physics from UB this spring, was primary author of the study. She is a resident of Edwardsville, Ill.

Others members of the research team were Stephen Rudin, Ph.D., co-director of the Toshiba Stroke Research Center and director of the UB Division of Radiation Physics, and Daniel R. Bednarek, Ph.D.

Rudin also is a professor in the Department of Radiology and clinical research professor in the departments of Neurosurgery and Physiology and Biophysics, both in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

He is a resident of Williamsville.

Bednarek, who lives in Cheektowaga, is associate professor of radiology and research associate professor of neurosurgery and physiology and biophysics.