Richard E. Carson Named Recipient of Kuhl-Lassen Lecture Award for Research in Brain Imaging

Richard E. Carson, professor of diagnostic radiology and biomedical engineering and co-director of the PET Center at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., is the recipient of the Kuhl-Lassen Lecture Award for Research in Brain Imaging. This award, presented by SNM's Brain Imaging Council, annually honors a scientist who has made significant contributions to the field of functional brain imaging using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and PET. Carson addressed "Quantitative Neuroreceptor Imaging With PET: Madness in the Methods or Method to the Madness."


Before coming to Yale, Carson served as senior scientist, 2004-05, and chief of the modeling and physics section, 1998-05, both with the PET department with the National Institutes of Health. He was a staff scientist with NIH's nuclear medicine/PET department from 1987-98 and a staff fellow with its nuclear medicine department from 1983-87. He received his doctorate from the Department of Biomathematics, School of Medicine, at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his bachelor's degree in applied mathematics/biology from Brown University.

Carson's research uses PET as a tool to noninvasively measure a wide range of in vivo physiology in human beings and laboratory animals, focusing on the development and applications of new tracer kinetic modeling methods and algorithms and on research in PET image reconstruction and image quantification. A primary focus of his biological applications is the measurement of dynamic changes in neurotransmitters.

Marcelo F. Di Carli Receives Herrmann Blumgart Award

The society's Cardiovascular Council recognized Marcelo F. Di Carli, chief of nuclear medicine and director of noninvasive cardiovascular imaging at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass., with the Herrmann Blumgart Award for his pioneering work in cardiovascular radionuclide imaging and services. Di Carli is also an associate professor of radiology and medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Di Carli's research interests include PET, myocardial blood flow and metabolism and cardiac autonomic function. He received his medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and served his residency in internal medicine at the Institute Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Favaloro Foundation, Buenos Aires. The Blumgart recipient held a fellowship in cardiovascular disease with the Institute of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Favaloro Foundation, Buenos Aires, and a research fellowship in cardiovascular nuclear medicine and a clinical fellowship in nuclear medicine with the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine.

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