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Ronald Harrop, Professor Emeritus, Computing Science


Area: Biomedical Computing

Home Page: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~harrop/

Biography

Education

Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Cambridge,1953
M.A. 1950
B.A. Mathematics 1946

Work History

Professor Emeritus in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University and Mathematics (now retired)
Adjunct Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Senior Research Scientist, University Hospital, UBC

Research Interests

(1) The use of positron emission tomography in the study of Alzheimer's disease and of certain other disorders. This involves cooperative work with a group of researchers at UBC who are concerned with an overall study of the diseases.
(2) Work associated with the design and prototype building of a volume imaging positron emission tomograph. This includes aspects of detector testing, data acquisition and processing, image reconstruction and display.
(3) Medical Informatics.

Selected Publications

  • A.Celler, T.Farcombe, R.Harrop and D.Lyster, Dynamic Heart-in-Thorax phantom for functional SPECT. IEEE Tranans.Nuc.Sci., vol.44, 1600-1605 (1997)
  • R.G.Wells, A.Celler and R.Harrop, Experimental validation of an analytical method of calculating SPECT projection data. IEEE Trans.Nuc.Sci., vol.44 1283-122290 (1997)
  • C.J.Dykstra, T.Bortfeld, J.Debus, A.Lomax, R.Harrop, W.Schlegel and G.Munkel, Characterization of dose distribution in radiation therapy plans. Radiotherapy and Oncology (Technical Note),vol.41, 281-284 (1996)
  • C.J.Dykstra, R.Harrop, A.M.Celler and M.S.Atkins, Quantitative 3D data extraction using contiguous volumes. 1996 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record 1822-1825 (1996)
  • A. Celler, A.Sitek and R.Harrop, Reconstruction of multiple line source attenuation maps. 1996 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record 1420-1424 (1996)


    • For an up-to-date and complete list of publications, please visit Ronald Harrop's home page