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Dr. Katy Huff on StarTalk

Katy Huff, an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering, was recently a guest on Neil DeGrasse Tyson's StarTalk podcast discussing the present and future of nuclear energy.

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Ling-Jian Meng

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Ling-Jian Meng

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The Radiation Detection and Imaging Group under Professor Meng takes a systematic approach to develop advanced radiological imaging techniques that help to tackle some of the most challenging diseases that we are facing today, such as diabetes, brain cancer, cardiac diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases. The group develops and applys ultrahigh performance gamma ray imaging sensors for demanding SPECT and PET applications as well as studys advanced image formation techniques to improve the tradeoffs between spatial resolution and sensitivity.