Dr. Ling Jian Meng, PhD

Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering

Ultra-high resolution imaging systems for biomedical/molecular imaging applications.
Novel imaging sensorbased on room temperature semiconductor detectors.

B.Sc. in Modern Physics (1995), University of Science and Technology of China, PRC
Ph.D. in Detector Physics (2001), University of Southampton, UK

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

National Institute of Health:

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

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.

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.

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.