Srinivasan Vedantham, PhD, DABR, FAAPM
Dr. Vedantham, along with his collaborators and colleagues, had made major contributions to breast cancer imaging, including small-field digital mammography for stereotactic core-biopsies, full-field digital mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis. He is working on developing advanced tomographic techniques and systems for breast imaging and its clinical translation. This design, development and clinical translation-oriented research is funded by the National Institutes of Health. He is also conducting research in interventional imaging with a focus on the development of advanced detector technology.
Dr. Vedantham is a member of several professional organizations: the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the International Society for Optics and Photonics. He was elected as a Fellow by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. Dr. Vedantham joined the University of Arizona after serving as a faculty member at the Department of Radiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and as an adjunct faculty member in biomedical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Degrees
- PhD: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2002
- MS: The University of Akron, 1997
- BE (Honors): Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India, 1992
design, development and clinical translation of novel X-ray imaging systems, imaging techniques with particular focus on oncological and interventional imaging