Student theses and project reports supervised

  1. Goff, Michael J. and Scovell, Paul R.
    Rigid body infra-red motion tracking system.
    MPhys Fourth Year Laboratory Report, The University of Manchester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2007.

  2. Green, Richard J. and Harrison, Craig N.
    Quantification of positron emitters with phosphor imaging plates.
    MPhys Fourth Year Laboratory Reports, The University of Manchester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2008.

  3. Gorman, David and Noonan, Philip
    Performance improvements on the High Resolution Research Tomograph, HRRT.
    MPhys Fourth Year Laboratory Report, The University of Manchester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2009.

  4. Webster, Daniel
    NEMA defined performance measurements of positron emission tomography (PET) scanners.
    MPhys Fourth Year Laboratory Report, The University of Manchester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2010.

  5. Lewis, Joseph
    Performance measurements of positron emission tomographs.
    MPhys Fourth Year Laboratory Report, The University of Manchester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2010.

  6. Wang, Shaonan
    Quantitative analysis of dynamic PET/(R)-[11C]-verapamil data in epilepsy patients.
    PhD Thesis, The University of Manchester, School of Medicine, 2012.

  7. Charalambous, Vryonis
    Quantitative measurement of cerebral blood flow (CBF) with oxygen15 - labeled water and positron emission tomography (PET) on the High Resolution Research Tomograph (HRRT).
    MSc in Medical Imaging, The University of Manchester, School of Medicine, 2012.

  8. El-Shaweesh, Banan
    Measuring the accuracy of cortical tracer uptake in patients with brain atrophy including Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.
    MSc in Cognitive Brain Imaging, The University of Manchester, School of Psychological Sciences, 2012.

  9. Harris, Rachel
    Can [11C]PIB PET imaging be used as a dual biomarker for measuring amyloid and cerebral glucose metabolism in MCI subjects?
    MRes in Experimental Neuroscience, Imperial College London, 2013.

  10. Su, Zhangjie
    Translocator protein expression and microglial activation in gliomas.
    PhD Thesis, The University of Manchester, School of Medicine, 2013.

  11. Yeh, Hsin-Hsien (Skye)
    Utility and validation of the histone deacetylase (HDAC) substrate, [18F]FAHA, as a positron emission tomography (PET) imaging biomarker in non-human primates and HD transgenic mice for evaluation of neurodegenerative diseases and HDAC inhibitor treatment.
    PhD Thesis, The University of Manchester, School of Medicine, 2013.

  12. Evans, Richard Mark
    Modelling reduced radioactivity in amyloid PET imaging via sub-sampling of list-mode data to quantify the loss in image quality.
    MSc in Medical Imaging, The University of Manchester, School of Medicine, 2013.

  13. Noonan, Philip John
    An investigation into motion correction schemes for high resolution 3D PET and PET/CT.
    PhD Thesis, The University of Manchester, School of Medicine, 2014.

  14. Lewis, Joseph
    Quantification of dynamic FDG scans in high resolution PET imaging.
    The University of Manchester, School of Medicine, withdrawn from PhD programme in 2014.

  15. Pepple, Ibiwari
    Quantification methods for FDG-PET in neurodegenerative movement disorders.
    MSc in Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience, The University of Manchester, 2014.

  16. Lawson, David and Surma, Wolodymyr
    Investigating the accuracy of resampling of PET data when trying to mimic lower dose scanning.
    MPhys Fourth Year Laboratory Reports, The University of Manchester, School of Physics and Astronomy, 2015.

  17. Assiri, Rajeh
    Simplified analysis of HRRT brain PET data with [11C]DASB.
    MSc in Medical Imaging, The University of Manchester, School of Medicine, 2015.

  18. Holland, Glenn Paul
    Evaluation of [11C](R)-PK11195 and [11C]-DASB positron emission tomography brain scans in healthy controls.
    MPhil Thesis, The University of Manchester, School of Medicine, 2016.

  19. Holmes, Sophie
    Neuroinflammation in depression and schizophrenia, measured in vivo using positron emission tomography (PET).
    PhD Thesis, The University of Manchester, School of Medicine, 2016.

  20. Alharbi, Nehal
    [F-18]fluorothymidine PET assessment of response to MEK inhibition combined with radiotherapy in nonsmall cell lung cancer patients.
    MSc in Medical Imaging, The University of Manchester, School of Medicine, 2016.

  21. Sotiriou, Maria
    The analysis and cross-site comparison of [18F]FDOPA PET scans in schizophrenia.
    MSc in Medical Imaging, The University of Manchester, School of Medicine, 2016.

  22. Lillethorup, Thea Pinholt
    The analysis of pre-clinical brain PET imaging data.
    Visiting PhD student from Aarhus University (Denmark), 2016.

  23. Sridharan, Sujata
    Quantitative analysis of positron emission tomography (PET) with the second generation translocator protein (TSPO) ligand [18F]GE-180.
    PhD Thesis, The University of Manchester, School of Health Sciences, 2016.

  24. Guram, Rajvir Singh
    Quantitative analysis of brain amyloid images acquired with positron emission tomography (PET).
    Applied Personal Excellence Pathway (APEP) Project Report, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae (MB ChB) Year 3.
    The University of Manchester, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, 2017.

  25. Sanaei Nezhad, Faezeh
    Magnetic resonance spectroscopy as part of a comprehensive neuroimaging assessment tool.
    PhD Thesis, The University of Manchester, School of Health Sciences, 2018.

  26. Howe, Joseph
    Parametric mapping of brain amyloid data acquired with positron emission tomography (PET).
    Applied Personal Excellence Pathway (APEP) Project Report, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae (MB ChB) Year 3.
    The University of Manchester, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, 2018.

  27. Khorram (née Blecharczyk), Aleksandra
    Evaluation of different regions of interest and parametric mapping reference tissue methods for 11C-DASB kinetic modelling using data from a sibutramine occupancy study.
    MSc in Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience (NCCN), The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences, 2018.

  28. Rashid, Naeem
    PET kinetic modelling with 11C-DASB: Comparing plasma input function and reference tissue models.
    MSc in Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience (NCCN), The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences, 2018.

  29. Fan, Zhen
    Quantification of glial activation using positron emission tomography in neurodegenerative disease.
    PhD Thesis, Imperial College London, Department of Medicine, 2019.

  30. Hackett, Oscar
    Clinical imaging studies of neuroinflammation with [11C]-PK11195: A systematic review of PET scanning protocols.
    Applied Personal Excellence Pathway (APEP) Project Report, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae (MB ChB) Year 3.
    The University of Manchester, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, 2019.

  31. Islim, Aminah and Alfaifi, Bandar
    Characterisation of [11C]methionine kinetics in normal appearing and malignant brain tissue.
    MSc in Medical Imaging Science, The University of Manchester, School of Health Sciences, 2019.

  32. Agushi, Erjon
    Translocator protein and methionine PET imaging in glioma.
    PhD Thesis, The University of Manchester, School of Health Sciences, 2020.

  33. Michałowska, Malgorzata
    Cortical and striatal amyloid accumulation on 18F-flutemetamol PET in healthy old individuals.
    Research Master in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, University of Maastricht, 2020,
    (Research internship at the Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre, University of Manchester).

  34. Icer, Yusuf
    An investigation into the distribution of [11C](R)-PK11195 binding in the brain of normal subjects and into the relationship of the binding with age.
    MSc in Medical Imaging Science, The University of Manchester, School of Health Sciences, 2020.

  35. Zhang, Zhiyu
    Investigation into the lateralization of [11C](R)-PK11195 brain binding and its relationship with age.
    MSc in Medical Imaging Science, The University of Manchester, School of Health Sciences, 2020.

  36. Andrulyte, Ieva
    Mapping grey matter abnormalities in recent-onset and established schizophrenia: a cross-sectional voxel-based morphometry (VBM) study.
    MSc in Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience (NCCN), The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences, 2020.

  37. Wainwright, Katherine
    Source-based morphometry (SBM) analysis of grey matter volume in recent-onset and established schizophrenia patients.
    MSc in Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience (NCCN), The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences, 2020.

  38. Bochicchio, Daniela
    Measurement of protein synthesis rate and synaptic density by using [11C]leucine and [18F]UCB-H PET tracers respectively in a model for Alzheimer's disease, rat TgF344-AD.
    PhD Thesis, The University of Manchester, School of Health Sciences, 2021.

  39. Elliott, Adam
    A methodological analysis of 4 reference tissue input functions for [11C](R)-PK11195 positron emission tomography.
    Applied Personal Excellence Pathway (APEP) Project Report, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae (MB ChB) Year 3.
    The University of Manchester, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, 2021.

  40. Leng, Fangda
    Influence of amyloid deposition and neuroinflammation on brain connectivity and cognition in Alzheimer's disease spectrum: a multimodal imaging study.
    PhD Thesis, Imperial College London, Department of Brain Sciences, 2021.

  41. Lee, Choi Yee (Joyce)
    Definition of white matter brain regions and of the basal ganglia for the analysis of [11C](R)-PK11195 binding in people with schizophrenia and in normal subjects.
    MSc in Medical Imaging Science, The University of Manchester, School of Health Sciences, 2021.

  42. Asiri, Anwaar
    Definition of white matter brain regions and of the basal ganglia for the analysis of [11C](R)-PK11195 binding in people with schizophrenia and in normal subjects.
    MSc in Medical Imaging Science, The University of Manchester, School of Health Sciences, 2021.

  43. Ellis, Charles
    Evaluating the utility of the orientation dispersion index in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease.
    MSc in Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience (NCCN), The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences, 2021.

  44. Dane, Helen
    Evaluating the comparison and change in orientation dispersion index and standardised uptake value ratios in Alzheimer's disease: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study.
    MSc in Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience (NCCN), The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences, 2021.

  45. Starkie, Morgan
    An analysis of four reference tissue input functions in PET imaging of neuroinflammation in schizophrenia.
    Applied Personal Excellence Pathway (APEP) Project Report, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae (MB ChB) Year 3.
    The University of Manchester, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, 2022.

  46. Wei, Yiting
    Characterisation of [11C](R)-PK11195 binding in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) cross-sectional imaging data.
    PGDip in Medical Imaging Science, The University of Manchester, School of Health Sciences, 2022.

  47. Singh, Rohini
    Investigating glucose metabolism and cortical complexity in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.
    MSc in Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience (NCCN), The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences, 2022.

  48. Harding, Dan
    Comparison of glucose metabolism and cortical complexity with [18F]Flurodeoxyglucose PET and neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment.
    MSc in Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience (NCCN), The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences, 2022.

  49. Lomas, Daniel
    A quantitative analysis of PET data using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose to assess glucose metabolism and transport across the blood brain barrier in Alzheimer's Disease.
    Applied Personal Excellence Pathway (APEP) Project Report, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae (MB ChB) Year 3.
    The University of Manchester, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, 2023.

  50. Bao, Zheng
    Analysis of longitudinal imaging data analysis of [11C](R)-PK11195 combining etanercept and placebo treatment in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
    MSc in Medical Imaging Science, The University of Manchester, School of Health Sciences, 2023.

  51. Yong, Jiamin
    Characterisation of [11C](R)-PK11195 binding in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in comparison with healthy controls using cross-sectional data.
    MSc in Medical Imaging Science, The University of Manchester, School of Health Sciences, 2023.

  52. Nan, Mu
    Exploring the correlation between cortical microstructural complexity and glucose metabolism in Alzheimer's Disease: insights into pathology and memory decline.
    MSc in Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience (NCCN), The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences, 2023.

  53. Kothekar, Rahul
    Exploring the relationship between 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose standard uptake value ratio (FDG SUVR) and grey matter orientation dispersion index (GM ODI) in Alzheimer's Disease.
    MSc in Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience (NCCN), The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences, 2023.

  54. Jacobs, Beatrice
    Utilisation vs transportation: Alzheimer's Disease exhibits greater impairments in glucose metabolism than transport.
    Applied Personal Excellence Pathway (APEP) Project Report, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae (MB ChB) Year 3.
    The University of Manchester, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, 2024.

  55. MacFarlane, Hamish
    Characterisation of multiple systems atrophy using regional MRI and PET imaging.
    MSc in Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience (NCCN), The University of Manchester, School of Health Sciences, 2024.

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