Academic Staff and Affiliates
Research Students
Commercial Partners and Contractors
Medipix Collaboration

Academic Staff and Affiliates

Project Leaders

• Prof. Phil Butler    Scanner development and FRST project leader
• Dr. Anthony Butler    Lead imaging and application researcher

Project Team

ChMeds - Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Otago

UC - Univeristy of Canterbury

CDHB - Canterbury District Health Board

• Dr. Nigel Anderson    Radiology, ChMeds
• Prof. Mark Billinghurst    HIT Lab NZ, UC
• Prof. Phil Bones    Electrical & Computer Engineering, UC
• Dr. Tim Buckenham    Radiology, ChMeds
• Dr. Nick Cook    Medical Physics (CDHB) and Radiology, ChMeds
• Dr. Steven Gieseg    Biological Sciences, UC
• Dr. Raphael Grasset    Hit Lab NZ, UC
• Dr. Mike Hurrell    Radiology, ChMeds
• Dr. David Krofcheck    Physics , University of Auckland
• Dr. Stuart Lansley    Physics & Astronomy, UC
• Dr. Juergen Meyer    Physics & Astronomy, UC
• Angela Moore  Research Manager Bioengineering University of Otago
• Prof. Lou Reinisch     Physical & Earth Sciences, Jacksonville State University
• Dr. Peter Renaud    Mathematics & Statistics, UC
• Dr. Nanette Schleich     Medical Physics (CDHB)
• Dr. Nicola Scott    Molecular Biology, ChMeds
• Dr. Richard Watts    Physics & Astronomy, UC

Mechanical, Electronic and Software Design Team

• Dave van Leeuwen    Electrical & Computer Engineering, UC
• Geoffrey Graham    Physics & Astronomy, UC
• Stephen Hemmingsen    Physics & Astronomy, UC
• Ross Ritchie    Physics & Astronomy, UC

Research Students

Current Research Students

• Raja Aamir (Phil Butler) - IUCC Fellow, Pakistan
  Data analysis using PCA
• Rachel Cullens (Nigel Anderson, Anthony Butler) - to apply for Masters of Health Science, University of Otago
  X-ray spectroscopic imaging of breast lesions with the MARS Scanner
• Robert Doesburg (Phil Butler) - PhD Physics
  Inversion from MARS-CT data of spectrally distinct multi-angular two dimensional X-ray projections to estimate the spatial distribution and density of identified materials within a bounded physical body.
• Jethro Donaldson (Dave van Leeuwen Anthony Butler) - Summer Scholarship
  Energy calibration routines for Medipix
• Dylan Gifford (Steven Gieseg, Anthony Butler) - Summer Scholarship
  Inflammatory and oxidative markers in atherosclerotic plaques
• Jeremy Keown (Anthony Butler, Nicola Scott) - Summer Scholarship
  Imaging of diseased ApoE-/- genetic knockout mouse hearts using nanoparticles and reconstruction of the CT slices with the MARS-CT scanner
• Syen Nik (Juergen Meyer, Richard Watts) - Physics PhD
  Evaluating the benefits of spectroscopic imaging in discriminating biological materials
• Raphael Nolden (Phil Butler) - Summer Scholarship
  Imaging of diseased ApoE genetic knockout mouse hearts and reconstruction of the CT slices with the MARS-CT scanner
• Niels de Ruiter (Phil Butler, Raphael Grasset) - HitLabNZ
• Anas Sedayo (Phil Butler) - PhD Physics
• Hamish Silverwood (Phil Butler) - Phys493 Project
• Rachel Tappenden (Ian Coope) - PhD Mathematics
• Rafidah Zainon (Phil Butler, Steven Gieseg, Anthony Butler) - Med Phys PhD
  Study on atheroma plaque with MARS-CT scanner
• Mohammad Zeidan (Phil Butler) - Summer Scholarship
  Imaging of diseased ApoE genetic knockout mouse hearts and reconstruction of the CT sliceswith the MARS-CT scanner

Past Research Students

• Kyra Berg
  Pilot Study to Determine if MARS2-Spectroscopic-CT Scanner can Distinguish Fat from Liver, and can Distinguish Biological Concentrations of Iron and Calcium from Water
• Jochen Butzer
  MARS-CT: Biomedical Spectral X-ray Imaging with Medipix. Phase-contrast imaging of biological and bio-medicalsamples at the Institute for Synchrotron Radiation of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
• James Carr
  Workflow improvements and material discrimination with MARS2-CT
• Mike Clark (Phil Butler, Anthony Butler) - PHYS480 Project
  Reconstruction, Image processing improvements, and Review of Hounsfield Units
• Alice Chu (Phil Bones) - ECE 3 rd Pro Project
  Alignment and mechanical stability of the MARS-CT Scanner
• Guillaume Chassaing(Phil Bones, Anthony Butler) - Final year of Engineering degree at ISEN (Toulon, France) in Information Systems and Software Engineering; Internship in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Development of new applications for the MARS-CT scanner: 1) Imaging subtle differences in anatomy in NZ native beetles and 2) Imaging of the solder joints on PCBs.
• Jethro Donaldson - Phys390 Project Summer 08/09
  Low Level Software Interfaces for MARS-CT Scanners (libmars)
• Stephane Dufreneix (Phil Butler) - Physics Intern (20/04/09 to 17/07/09)
  Spectrum modifications in MARS CT scanner
• Steffi Girst (Phil Butler) - PHYS480 Project
  X-Ray dose with MARS-CT
• Richard Heinz (Juergen Meyer)
  Implementation of a Cone-Beam Reconstruction Algorithm in Matlab
• Andrew Johnson - Phys390 Project Summer 08/09
  Material visualization in Spectral x-ray CT
• Henry Liu - Radiology registrar
• Tracy Melzer
  Initial images of fetal hand
• Ning Pan - HitLabNZ intern
• Ihab Ramadan(David Krofcheck, Anthony Butler) - Bachelor of Technology (Hons) in Medical Physics & Imaging Technologies, BTech490 project
  Testing and characterising the CdTe detector in the photon counting Medipix chip
• Fred Ross
  Alignment Project
• Johnathan Selkirk
  Quad energy calibration
• Mark William
  Development of MARS2-Spectroscopic-CT Calibration, Operation and Image-Processing Code
• Hansjorg Zeller (Phil Butler) - PHYS480 Project
  Scattered x-rays in spectral CT

Commercial Partners and Contractors

• ILR
• Quarticom
• Nextspace
• MARS Research Showcase
• Fabtek
• MARS Bioimaging
• Shamrock Industries Ltd
• Veronese Design Ltd
• Draw 2-3D Ltd

Medipix Collaboration

• CERN
• The Medipix Home Page
• The Medipix2 Home Page
• The Medipix3 Home Page
• Medipix on Wikipedia