Ontario Consortium for Cardiac Imaging

Ian A. Cunningham, Ph.D., F.C.C.P.M. [RRI]
Professor, Departments of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Western Ontario
Imaging Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute
100 Perth Drive, London, ON N6A 5K8
Telephone: 519-685-8500 X34130; Fax: 519-663-3900
Email: icunning @ imaging.robarts.ca
URL: Robarts Research Institute

Professor of Radiology since obtaining Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in 1987.
Peer-reviewed funding from: Medical Research Council of Canada; The Whitaker Foundation (US); US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Breast Cancer Research Program; and The Sterling-Winthrop Imaging Research Institute.
Associate Editor of Medical Physics.
Winner of six first or second-place "best paper of the year" awards in medical physics in Canada and the US during the past 10 years.
Consultant in medical imaging physics to numerous international companies and universities.
Leader in the development of ECG gated cardiac CT.
Leader in the development of coherent-scatter CT for material-specific imaging as demonstrated by the introduction of this new method and publication of the first images.
Leader in the development of new theories for understanding image quality and x-ray system performance as demonstrated by the publication of 14 papers including an invited review paper, four book chapters, and numerous workshops and tutorials in Canada and the US.
40 papers, 29 invited addresses and 90 abstracts published in the past 10 years.