Paul E. Kinahan, Ph.D.


B.A.Sc. Engineering Physics, University of British Columbia, 1985
M.A.Sc. Engineering Physics, University of British Columbia, 1988
Ph.D. Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1994
Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, 1994-2000
Associate Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2000-2001
Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Washington, 2001-present
Adjunct Associate Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington, 2002-present

Selected Publications


Cheng PM, Kinahan PE, Comtat C, Kim J-S, Lartizien C, and Lewellen TK, Effect of scan duration on lesion detectability in PET oncology imaging. In: 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Arlington, VA, April 15-18, 2004. vol. (to appear), 2004. PDF

Lartizien C, Kinahan PE, and Comtat C, Volumetric Model and Human Observer Comparisons of Tumor Detection for Whole-Body PET. Academic Radiology, vol. 11, pp. 637-648, 2004. PDF

Brasse D, Kinahan PE, Clackdoyle R, Comtat C, Defrise M, and Townsend DW, Fast Fully 3D Image Reconstruction in PET Using Planograms. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 23, pp. 413-425, 2004. PDF

Lartizien C, Kinahan PE, and Comtat C, A Lesion Detection Observer Study Comparing 2D Versus Fully-3D Whole-Body PET Imaging Protocols. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, vol. 45, pp. 714-723, 2004. PDF

Bai C, Kinahan PE, Brasse D, Comtat C, Townsend D, Meltzer CC, Villemagne V, Charron M, and Defrise M, Effects of attenuation on tumor detection in wholebody PET oncology imaging. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, vol. 44, pp. 1855-1861, 2003. PDF

Kim J-S, Kinahan PE, Lartizien C, Comtat C, and Lewellen TK, Performance comparisons of planar and volumetric observers for lesion detection in PET scanning. In: SPIE Medical Imaging 2003, San Diego, CA, Feb. 17-20th, 2003. vol. 5034, pp. 89-99, 2003. PDF

Kinahan PE, Hasegawa BH, and Beyer T. X-ray Based Attenuation Correction for PET/CT Scanners. Seminars in Nuclear Medicine vol. 33, pp 166-179, 2003. PDF

Comtat C, Kinahan PE, Fessler JA, Beyer T, Townsend DW, Defrise M, and Michel C. Clinically Feasible Reconstruction of 3D Whole-Body PET/CT Data Using Blurred Anatomical Labels. Physics in Medicine and Biology vol 47, 1-20, 2002. PDF

Beyer T, Townsend DW, Brun A, Kinahan PE, Charron M, Roddy R, Israel J, Jerin J, Young J, Byars L, and Nutt R. A combined PET/CT scanner for clinical oncology. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, vol. 41, 1369-1379, 2000. PDF

Kinahan PE, Townsend DW, Beyer T, and Sashin D. Attenuation correction for a combined 3D PET/CT scanner. Medical Physics. vol. 25, 2046-2053, 1998. PDF

Comtat C, Kinahan PE, Defrise M, Michel C, and Townsend DW. Fast reconstruction of 3D PET data with accurate statistical modeling. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. vol. 45, 1083-1089, 1998. PDF

Defrise M, Kinahan PE, Townsend DW, Michel C, Sibomana M, and Newport DF. Exact and approximate rebinning algorithms for 3-D PET data. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. vol. 16, 145-158, 1997. PDF

Kinahan PE and Rogers JG. Analytic 3D image reconstruction using all detected events. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. vol. 36, 964-968, 1989. PDF

Selected Invited Presentations


"Image Reconstruction for Small Animal PET". Academy of Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting. Orlando FL. March 29, 2004. PDF

"How Select a PET or PET/CT Scanner". Department of Nuclear Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC. November 4, 2003. PDF

"Whole-body Imaging with 3D PET". National Institute of Radiological Sciences. Chiba, Japan. 15-25 November 2000. PDF

"3D PET Reconstruction." Symposium: "Future Directions in Nuclear Medicine Physics and Engineering Research". University of Chicago, March 19-21 1999. PDF