To contact the developers please email enquiries@miakat.org
MIAKATTM was developed by Graham Searle & Roger Gunn
Graham
Searle is Principal PET Analyst at Imanova. He holds a Master’s degree in
mathematics and a PhD in mathematical modelling. He has been working in
the field of PET image analysis since 2006, and in that time has focused
on human neuroimaging, particularly in the context of drug development.
His previous work centred on the development of scientific software for
modelling applications, and this background enabled him to play the lead
role in the development of the MIAKAT software framework.
Roger
Gunn is Chief Scientific Officer and Head of Analysis at Imanova,
Professor of Molecular Neuroimaging in the Division of Brain Sciences at
Imperial College London and Visiting Professor in the Department of
Engineering at the University of Oxford. He is an applied mathematician
who has held positions in academia and industry in the UK and North
America. MIAKAT contains analytical techniques developed during his 20
year career in the field of PET Neuroimaging.With contributions from Christopher Coello, Cristian Salinas, Andri Tziortzi & Qi Guo
Christopher
Coello is a PET Analyst at Imanova since 2013. He is an Electrical
Engineer from Bordeaux INP with an additional Master’s Degree in Medical
Imaging from University Paris XI where he worked on SPECT/PET
reconstruction. His doctoral degree was spent studying dual-energy x-ray
imaging, in collaboration with INSA Lyon and CEA Grenoble. A
post-doctoral work on preclinical PET image analysis and kinetic
modelling of opioid receptor tracers at the University of Oslo
definitely convinced him that PET imaging was fun
Cristian
Salinas is an Associate Principal Research Scientist at Merck Research
Laboratories. He holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western
reserve University USA. He has been actively working in the field of PET
kinetic modeling since 2001. He is currently involved in the application
of optimal experimental design techniques applied to PET in order to
characterize non-trivial PK-PD relationships to support the development of
novel pharmaceutical therapies.
Andri
Tziortzi is a Physics Teacher and a Honorary Research Fellow at Imanova.
She holds Physics degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens and a Master’s degree in Medical Physics. She obtained her DPhil in
Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford. During her studies and
work at GSK she has been involved in the analysis of PET, CT, MRI and DTI
images in the context of drug development. Her previous work centred
primarily around the construction of structural and functional brain
atlases
Qi Guo is
a Senior Scientist at AbbVie. She received a DPhil in Biomedical
Engineering from University of Oxford, UK and Bachelor in Electronic
Engineering from Peking University China. She has been working in PET
imaging since 2006 with Oxford, Imperial College, King’s College London,
GSK and Imanova. Her previous work centered around the development of
mathematics for novel PET probes discovery and innovation in tracer
quantification methods with a particular focus on
imaging neuroinflammation in various diseases