RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Ultra-high resolution imaging systems for biomedical/molecular imaging applications.
- Novel imaging sensorbased on room temperature semiconductor detectors.
EDUCATION:
- B.Sc. in Modern Physics (1995), University of Science and Technology of China, PRC
- Ph.D. in Detector Physics (2001), University of Southampton, UK
ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD:
- Research Fellow, Department of Radiology and Department of Nuclear
Engineering and Radiological Sciences, July 2004 - present
- Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Nuclear Engineering and
Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, July 2004 - February, 2004
- Assistant Professor, Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and
Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006 - present
MAJOR CONSULTING ACTIVITIES — last five years
National Institute of Health:
National Institute of Health Consulting Acitivities List
- Special Emphasis Panel/Scientific Review Group 2005/10 ZRG1 SBIB-J (01)(S) meeting,
06/27/2005-06/28/2005
- Special Emphasis Panel/Scientific Review Group 2006/05 ZRG1 SBMI-F (10)(B) meeting,
02/28/2006.
- Special Emphasis Panel/Scientific Review Group 2006/10, scheduled on June 26-27-2006
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS — past two years
- L. J. Meng, N. H. Clinthorne, W. L. Rogers, "A Modified Uniform
Cramer-Rao Bound for Multiple Aperture Design", Medical Imaging,
IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 23 , pp 896 – 902, 2004.
- L. J. Meng and Z. He, "Estimate interaction timing in large volume HgI2 detector using cathode pulse waveforms", Nuclear Instruments and
Methods A vol. 545, pp 234-251, 2005.
- L. J. Meng and Z. He, "Exploring the Limiting Timing Resolution for
Large Volume CZT Detectors with Waveform Analysis", Nuclear Instruments and
Methods A, vol. 550, pp 435-445, 2005.
- L. J. Meng, "Design and Feasibility Study of a Single Photon Emission
Microscope System for Small Animal I-125 Imaging", to appear on IEEE
Trans. Nucl. Sci. 2006.
- L. J. Meng, Z. He, B. Alexander and J. Sandoval, "Spectroscopic
Performance of 1 cm thick HgI2 Detectors", to appear on IEEE Trans. Nucl.
Sci. 2006.
- L. J. Meng, "An Intensified EMCCD Camera for Low Energy Gamma Ray
Imaging Applications", accepted to appear on IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., 2006.
ARTICLES IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
- N. H. Clinthorne, L. J. Meng, "Optimality of the Post-smoothed, penalised
Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Imaging Reconstruction", presented at the 51st Annual
Meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 19-23, 2004.
- L. J. Meng and Z. He, "Timing Resolution of Large Volume HgI2 Detectors",
presented at 2004 IEEE NSS/MIC RTSD conference in Rome.
- Z. He and L. J. Meng, "Feasibility Study of 3-D CdZnTe Detectors for PET
Imaging", presented at 2004 IEEE NSS/MIC RTSD conference in Rome.
- Keitaro Hitomi, L. J. Meng and Z. He, "Evaluation of Pixellated HgI2 Detectors",
presented at 2004 IEEE NSS/MIC RTSD conference in Rome.
- L. J. Meng, "Design of a Single Photon Emission Microscope for Small Animal I-125
Imaging", presented at the 52nd SNM Annual Meeting at Toronto.
- L. J. Meng, Z. He, B. Alexander and J. Sandoval, "Spectroscopic Performance of 1 cm
thick HgI2 Detectors”, 2005 IEEE NSS/MIC Conference Record, Puerto Rico, 2005.
- Feng Zhang, Zhong He, L.J. Meng, "Prototype PET System Using Two 3-D Position
Sensitive CdZnTe Detectors", 2005 IEEE NSS/MIC Conference Record, Puerto Rico, 2005.
OTHER (patents, designed and marketed software, magazine articles, etc.)
- L J Meng, D. K. Wehe, W. L. Rogers, N. Clinthorne, "Method and
system for generating an image of the radiation density of a source of
photons located in an object", United States Patent #6,881,959.
- D. Ramsden, L J Meng, O. Ivanov, S. Ignatov, "Gamma-ray Spectrometry
", United States Patent #20060027754.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY:
- IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society member, 2000 - present