Roberts Prize for best paper published in 2012 - PMB

Physics in Medicine and Biology is one of my favorite journals and recently they have awarded the best paper published in 2012: Defrise M, Rezaei A, & Nuyts J (2012). Time-of-flight PET data determine the attenuation sinogram up to a constant. Physics in medicine and biology, 57 (4), 885-99 PMID: 22290428 

I have scan through this paper before, since it is actually a topic close to my work. Time-Of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography is one of the great trends of PET imaging and attenuation correction can be a struggle, specially for the new PET-MRI scanners, so the use of new information for attenuation correction will be important.

I have met the authors in conferences, two seniors Prof. Nuyts (researcher best known for Maximum a Posteriori reconstruction) and Prof. Defrise (researcher best known for Fourier Rebinning) and A. Rezaei is a young researcher with a promising career. Congratulations!


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Not Another Ranking...

This week, I found out about a new ranking: ScimagoIR. There are rankings for schools, universities, but this ranking is for research institutions, either hospitals, companies, universities or public institutes. I am not a great advocate for rankings, but at the same time it is always interesting to look at this data. Furthermore, the ranking can be seen by country and several parameters are showed: number of publications, percentage of publication with international collaborators, percentage of publications in top journals, scientific leadership, ... I found out that my institution is actually one of the leaders of the ranking!

Would you pay for Marilyn Monroe's Chest X-ray?

Yes, it is true, someone bought it! For 45,000 dollars. The estimated price was 1,200 dollars. Not really sure what you do with it: put it on the wall? I guess it qualifies as a collector´s item...

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Original story here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/7858340/Marilyn-Monroe-chest-X-rays-sell-for-45000.html and http://www.two-views.com/X-RAY/marilyn_monroe.html.