Assistant Professor
Nicholas Shkumat
Non-Clinical
DABR
Location
The Hospital for Sick Children
Address
555 University Ave, Toronto, Ontario Canada M4N 3M5
Research Interests
CT, Intervention/ Image-Guided Therapy, Nuclear Medicine
Appointment Status
Primary
Research Interests: CBCT in Interventional Radiology, Patient Radiation Dosimetry, Pediatric Reference Levels, PET Reconstruction, Task-Specific CT Technique Optimization
Research is focused on patient-specific dosimetry and medical physics applications in CT, IR, PET, and digital radiography/fluoroscopy. Examples include: the assessment of practice and creation of reference levels in pediatric IR to implement local/national/international standards, improving patient and task-specific acquisition techniques in pediatric CT, and the optimization of injected activity, count density and reconstruction methods in PET/CT.