Helene Benveniste
Chair, Medical Department

Benveniste's Laboratory focuses on (1) exploring, characterizing and understanding diagnostic MR contrast parameters suitable to visualize neuro-pathology in neurodegenerative diseases; (2) investigate transgenic animal models were specific genes are modified to understand mechanism(s) and treatment of addiction and of drug-induced neurotoxicity using high resolution MR imaging, (3) advance technologies in molecular MR imaging

Phone: N/A
Email: Benveniste@bnl.gov
 

Peter R. Brink
Professor and Chair, Physiology & Biophysics

Research interests: Biophysical properties of gap junction properties.

Ph.D. - University of Illinois, 1976

Email: Peter.brink@sunysb.edu

Terry Button
Associate Professor

Terry Button is interested in the use of imaging modalities to direct and monitor therapeutic processes. This ranges from using computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance (MR) to evaluate the clinical efficacy of experimental therapy in model system to the use of MR to directly and dynamically evaluate the effects of cryotherapy, heat ablation, or hyperthermia. In addition, as a medical physicist, he is actively involved in radiological equipment performance analysis, design requirements, and health physics implications.

Ph.D. - State University of New York at Buffalo, 1989

Phone: (631) 444-3841
Email: Terry.Button@sunysb.edul
 

Fu-Pen Chiang
Leading Professor and Chair,
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Fu-Pen Chiang's research interest is in the development and application of various optical techniques such as moire, holographic interferometry and speckle interferometry for stress analysis, nondestructive evaluation and metrology. He has applied these techniques to the study of fracture, fatigue and damage of metallic, composite and biological materials and published some 200 papers on various topics. He was the recipient of the 1993 B.J. Lazan Award of the Society for Experimental Mechanics. His research has been supported by NSF, ONR, ARO for his "outstanding original technical contributions in optical metrology." He is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Mechanics, Optical Society of America and a member of many professional societies including, ASMF, ASEE, AAAS and ASTM. He served as Editor of Int. J. Optics of Lasers in Engineering, Associate Editor of J. of Experimental Mechanics and ASME J. of Engineering Materials and Technology. He served as Guest Editor for four special issues of J. Optical Engineering, and organized many international and national conferences.

Ph.D. - University of Florida, 1966
M.S. - University of Florida, 1963

Phone: (631) 632-8311
Email: fchiang@ccmail.sunysb.edu
 

Benjamin Chu
Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Chemistry

Synthesis, characterization and processing of biomaterials, molecular manipulation and self-assembly in biomimetic mineralization, DNA complexation for gene therapy.

Ph.D. - Cornell University, 1959

Phone: (631) 632-7928
Email: benjamin.chu@sunysb.edu
 

Ira S. Cohen
Professor

Research interests: Electrophysiology of the heart; synaptic physiology.

M.D., Ph.D. - New York University, 1974

Email: icohen@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

F. Avraham Dilmanian
Associate Professor

The focus of Avraham Dilmanian's work is on the use of X-ray beams from the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), Brookhaven National Laboratory, in radiation therapy and medical imaging. The radiotherapy program, microbeam radiation therapy (MRT), uses arrays of parallel, microplanar X-rays and has two remarkable effects on laboratory vertebrates. First, it does not damage normal tissues at doses where conventional, broad beams produce severe tissue damage. Second, MRT kills some types of malignant tumors by irradiation from a single angle, at doses that are safe to normal tissues. Dilmanian's imaging programs pivot around computed tomography using monoenergetic X-ray beams. In particular, he and his colleagues recently implemented a new X-ray imaging method, Diffraction-Enhance Imaging (DEI), in the CT mode, studying phantoms and small animals. In both MRT and the imag-ing methods, technical challenges after the feasibility studies at the NSLS would be to develop compact sources for implementing the methods in hospitals.

Ph.D. - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980

Phone: (631) 344-7696
Email: Dilmanian@bnl.gov
 

Yu-Shin Ding
Senior Scientist

Yu-Shin Ding is a Senior Scientist with Tenure at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). She is Head of Radiotracer Development in the Neuroscience and Medical Imaging Group. Her research interests are the development of new methodologies to synthesize short half-lived radiopharmaceuticals and applying them towards investigation of biochemical transformations and drug mechanisms in primates and human. She has developed many unique radiotracers, many involving multi-step sequences; for example, she developed C-11 labeled methylphenidate (Ritalin) allowing the first studies of this drug in the human brain, including studies in normal aging, drug abuse, Parkinson's Disease and ADHD. Her research has focused on the investigation of the functional significance of dopamine, nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, opiate receptor, adenosine receptor systems as well as studies of breast cancer and melanoma.

Ph.D. - SUNY at Stony Brook, 1987

Phone: (631) 344-4388
Email: ding@bnl.gov
 

Petar Djuric
Professor

Petar M. Djuric is primarily interested in the theory of signal processing and its applications to a wide range of engineering and scientific problems. Recently, his work in biomedical engineering has been related to the development of computational methods for prediction of cellular and intercellular processes modeled by biochemical reaction networks. Another field of interest is signal processing of data obtained by magnetic resonance spectroscopy with applications to quantification of neural stem cells. Djuric is a Senior Member of IEEE and is a Member of the American Statistical Association and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. He has been invited to lecture at many universities in the United States and overseas. He has also been Associate Editor of several journals and Guest Editor of special issues.

Ph.D. - University of Rhode Island, 1990

Phone: (631) 632-8423
Email: Petar.Djuric@sbee.sunysb.edu
URL: http://www.ee.sunysb.edu/~djuric/