The R. Kent Nagle Lecture Series
November 1, 2001
F.A. Grünbaum explores the topic "Mathematics in Medical Imaging: the Present
and the Future"
Audience: The talk is open and intended for the general public.
Except for parking (see below), it is free.
Date: November 1, 2001
Time: Thursday evening 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Place: University Lecture Hall (ULH), at USF-Tampa (For a map of
the campus, click here.)
Parking: Parking permits can be obtained for $2 each from the Visitor's
Center off the University entrance on Leroy Collins Drive; a limited number of free
permits may be obtained in advance by contacting the Math Dept. by October 1. There
is also free satellite parking with shuttle rides to the lecture hall.
F.A. Grünbaum
Mathematics in Medical Imaging:
the Present and the Future
F.A. Grünbaum
A description of the talk: The advent of Computerized Tomography
(CAT) and other techniques like Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has had a profound
impact in diagnostic medicine and is starting to play an important role in an interventionist
mode for the early treatment of strokes, aneurysms, etc. I will try to describe
some of the succesful applications of mathematics, physics and engineering that
have made this possible and I will look into some of the developments that lie ahead.
The intended areas of applications for these new modalities are repeated mammographies
and monitoring in a neonatal clinic. There are problems in mathematics and physics
that need to be overcome before one can get these products into a hospital and I
want to give a basic description of some of these challenges.
A description of the speaker: F. Alberto Grünbaum is a Professor
of Mathematics at UC Berkeley. A graduate of The Rockefeller University, NYC, he
has taught at NYU and Caltech, and has been a visiting scientist at the IBM Watson
Research Center in NY. He is interested in the interaction between new mathematical
developments and a host of imaging problems in areas including medical imaging,
geophysics, radar detection, etc. He has served as Chair of the Math. Dept. and
as Director of the Center for Pure and Applied Math., both at Berkeley. He has been
a Miller Professor, and is presently the Editor of the journal Inverse Problems,
a publication of the Institute of Physics in England. He is a corresponding member
of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Cordoba, Argentina.