Request for collaboration

[Dr. Douglas K. Benn]

Anybody interested?

Douglas Benn


Hans van Oostrom wrote:

> I've received this request from Dr. Xu for collaboration.  You can respond
> directly to him.
> Thanks.  Hans.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Xu [mailto:xug2 at rpi.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 9:52 AM
> To: Hans van Oostrom
> Subject: Re: Biomedical Engineering Seminar
>
> Dear Dr. Oostrom,
>
> I am not replying your e-mail to recommend speakers, Rather, I am wondering
> if you could suggest a potential collaborator in the Brian Institute who
> has an interest in using a whole-body (including a very fine head/brain
> substructures) model that we developed using medical images from the
> Visible Human Project.  Under an NSF/CAREER award, we are using this model,
> perhaps the finest of its kind in the world, to compute ionizing radiation
> doses from therapy or other medical procedures.  I'd like to find out how
> can this model be used for brain studies. Can you be so kind to suggest a
> contact  or forward this e-mail to people in the Brain Institute? I already
> Know Wes Bolch from the nuclear eng department, but I thought you might
> know more people there as you are running an impressive biomedical
> seminar..Thanks a lot!
>
> Regards,
>
> George
>
> **********************************************************
> X. George Xu, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor and Institute Radiation Safety Officer
> Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics Programs
> Department of Environmental and Energy Engineering
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
> NES Building, Tibbits Ave.
> Troy, NY 12180
>
> E-mail: xug2 at rpi.edu
> Homepage: http://www.rpi.edu/~xug2
> Tel: 518-276-4014
> Fax: 518-276-4832
> *************************************

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Dr. Douglas K. Benn,
Associate Professor & Director of Oral Diagnostic Systems,
Dept. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery & Diagnostic Sciences,
University of Florida College of Dentistry,
Box 100414,
Gainesville, FL 32610-0414,
USA.

Tel: (352) 392 2505.
Fax: (352) 392 2507
Email: benn at dental.ufl.edu
Website: http://www.dental.ufl.edu/benncv.htm