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Curriculum Vitae
1 Personal Information
First name: Sascha
Surname: Moehrs (alternative spelling: Möhrs)
Email: sascha.moehrs@gmail.com
2 Academic Education
2.1 Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering (1999)
Degree course: European Electrical Engineering Studies;
Sascha Moehrs, PhD
Institutions: Six semesters at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, Germany and
two semesters at the University of Cagliari, Italy;
Thesis: “Software components for medical imaging using Java TM
technology”;
Original denomination of the german degree: “Diplom-Ingenieur(FH) der Elektrotechnik”.
2.2 Master of Science in Computational Engineering (2003)
Degree course: International Masters Programme in Computational Engineering;
Institution: Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany;
Thesis: “Bioelectric field simulation and visualisation: anisotropic conductivities for the
skull and brain white matter”;
Original denomination of the german degree: “Master of Science des Rechnergestützten
Ingenieurwesen”.
2.3 Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (2008)
PhD course: Applied Physics / Medical Physics;
Institution: University of Pisa, Department of Physics “Enrico Fermi”, Functional Imaging
and Instrumentation Group (FIIG), Pisa, Italy;
Thesis: “Modeling of pixelated and continuous crystals for high-resolution small animal
positron emission tomography”;
Original denomination of the italian degree: “Dottore di ricerca in fisica applicata indirizzo
fisica medica”.
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3 Research Interests
3.1 Medical Imaging
Analytic and iterative image reconstruction methods for transmission and emission tomography
(in particular for PET, SPECT and X-ray CT);
Scintillation detector design, modeling and optimisation (using Monte Carlo simulations);
Medical image processing and visualisation (in particular diffusion weighted images);
Multimodal (functional-) brain imaging using fMRI, EEG and MEG.
3.2 Scientific Computing
Finite element and finite difference methods for bioelectric field simulations;
(Algebraic-) Multigrid methods;
High performance- / parallel- / grid-computing.
3.3 Signal Processing
Audio coding (MP3, AAC, inverse decoding);
EEG signal analysis.
3.4 Medical Informatics
Medical information systems based on Internet technologies.
4 Editorial Activities
Member of the Editorial Board of ISRN Molecular Imaging;
Reviewer of Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics.
5 Awarded Scholarships
1998 Leonardo da Vinci scholarship from the European Union;
1999 Erasmus scholarship from the European Union;
2002 DAAD scholarship from the german academic exchange service;
2008 INFN postdoctoral scholarship from the italian national institute of nuclear physics.
6 Didactics
6.1 Teaching
“Iterative Methods for Tomographic Image Reconstruction”. University of Pisa, Summer
Term 2010.
“Tomographic Image Reconstruction Methods”. University of Pisa, Summer Term 2011.
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6.2 Supervised Thesis
Matteo Cechetti, “A factorized system model for iterative PET image reconstruction using
a Monte Carlo based detector resonse component”. Master Thesis in Physics, Department
of Physics, University of Pisa, Italy, 2012.
7 Work Experience
7.1 Trainee 1991 - 1994 (3 years)
Employer: Deutsche Telekom, Braunschweig, Germany;
Task: professional training as telecommunications electrician.
7.2 Orchestra Musician 1994 - 1995 (1 year)
Employer: Heeresmusikkorps 1, Hannover, Germany;
Task: German military service as orchestra musician (instrument: flute).
7.3 Visiting Student 1998 - 1999 (1 year, 6 months)
Host institution: Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia
(CRS4), BioMedical Group, Cagliari, Italy;
Tasks: Development of electronic patient record systems; medical image processing and
transmission.
7.4 Junior Researcher 1999 - 2001 (1 year, 6 months)
Employer: Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (CRS4),
BioMedical Group, Cagliari, Italy;
Tasks: Development of electronic patient record systems; EEG signal analysis; medical
image processing and transmission.
7.5 Research Assistant 2001 - 2002 (2 years part-time, 25%)
Employer: Fraunhofer Institute, Audio & Multimedia Group, Erlangen, Germany;
Task: Analysis of decompressed mp3 audio streams in particular the development of an
inverse decoder to enable lossless tandem encoding.
7.6 Visiting Research Scholar 2003 (6 months)
Host institution: University of Utah, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI),
Salt Lake City, USA;
Task: Development of finite element and finite difference algorithms to solve the inverse
EEG problem.
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7.7 Research Assistant 2003 (3 months)
Employer: Chair of System Simulation (LSS), Department of Computer Science, Friedrich-
Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany;
Task: Development of finite element and finite difference algorithms for anisotropic material
parameters.
7.8 Contract Researcher 2003 - 2008 (5 years)
Employer: University of Pisa, Department of Physics “Enrico Fermi”, Functional Imaging
and Instrumentation Group (FIIG), Pisa, Italy;
Tasks: Monte Carlo simulations for scintillation detector design, modeling and optimisation;
tomographic image reconstruction methods for PET and SPECT; multimodal functional
brain imaging using fMRI, MRI, DTI and EEG.
7.8.1 Visiting Scientific Collaborator 2006 (6 months)
Host institution: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Brussels,
Belgium;
Task: Development of fully 3D image reconstruction algorithms for small-animal positron
emission tomography.
7.9 Scientific Consultant 2008 - present (4 years, 1 month)
Host Institution: Functional Imaging and Instrumentation Group (FIIG), Pisa, Italy;
Tasks: System design and optimisation of reconstruction algorithms for various kinds of
medical imaging modalilites (PET, SPECT, CT, PEM, in-beam PET).
7.10 European Patent Examiner 2008 - present (4 years, 1 month)
Employer: European Patent Office (EPO), The Hague, Netherlands;
Task: Examination of patent applications related to medical imaging devices and methods
(X-ray CT, Ultrasound, MRI, PET, SPECT).
8 Invited Talks
8.1 “Modeling of pixelated and continuous crystals for high-resolution small-animal PET imaging”.
Seminar at the University of California, Irvine, USA, May 2007.
8.2 “Patent applications: the patent examiners and the researchers perspective”. Seminar at
Sardegna Ricerche, Pula, Italy, September 2009.
8.3 “Computational Issues in Medical Physics”. Seminar at CRS4, Pula, Italy, April 2011.
8.4 “Patents: an introduction and aspects relevant for researchers in medical technology”.
Refresher Course at the IEEE NSS/MIC Conference, Valencia, Spain, October 2011.
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9 Publications
h-index ≈ 10 (according to google scholar);
citations ≈ 275 (according to google scholar).
9.1 Journal Articles
9.1.1 Brelstaff G, Moehrs S, Anedda P, Tuveri M and Zanetti G. Internet Patient Records: new
techniques. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 3(1):92-109,
URL: http://www.jmir.org/2001/1/e8/, doi: 10.2196/jmir.3.1.e8, PMID: 11720950, 2001.
9.1.2 Motta A, Del Guerra A, Belcari N, Moehrs S, Panetta D, Righi S and Valentini D. Fast
3D-EM reconstruction using Planograms for stationary planar positron emission mammography
camera. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 29(8):587-596, 2005.
9.1.3 Moehrs S, Del Guerra A, Herbert D J and Mandelkern M A. A detector head design for
small-animal PET with silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). Physics in Medicine and Biology,
51(5):1113-1127, 2006.
9.1.4 Herbert D J, Moehrs S, D’Ascenzo N, Belcari N, Del Guerra A, Morsani F and Saveliev V.
The Silicon Photomultiplier for application to high-resolution Positron Emission Tomography.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 573(1-2):84-87,
2007.
9.1.5 Llosá G, Belcari N, Collazuol G, Del Guerra A, Marcatili S, Moehrs S, Piemonte C, Carpenter
T A, Hawkes R C, Lucas A J, Stevick J W. Solid state evolution. Nuclear Engineering
International, 52(641):18-20, 2007.
9.1.6 Attanasi F, Belcari N, Camarda M, Del Guerra A, Moehrs S, Rosso V, Vecchio S, Lanconelli
N, Cirrone G A P, Di Rosa F, Russo G. Experimental validation of the filtering
approach for dose monitoring in proton therapy at low energy. Physica Medica - European
Journal of Medical Physics, 24(2):102-106, 2008.
9.1.7 Llosá G, Battiston R, Belcari N, Boscardin M, Collazuol G, Corsi F, Dalla Betta G F,
Del Guerra A, Dinu N, Levi G, Marcatili S, Moehrs S, Marzocca C, Piemonte C, Pozza A.
Novel Silicon Photomultipliers for PET Applications. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science,
55(3):877 - 881, 2008.
9.1.8 Panetta D, Belcari N, Del Guerra A, Moehrs S. An optimization-based method for geometrical
calibration in cone beam CT without dedicated phantoms. Physics in Medicine
and Biology, 53(14):3841-3861, 2008.
9.1.9 Del Guerra A, Belcari N, Lloca LLacer G, Marcatili S, Moehrs S, Panetta D. Advanced radiation
measurement techniques in diagnostic radiology and molecular imaging. Radiation
Protection Dosimetry, 131(1):136 - 142, 2008.
9.1.10 Moehrs S, Defrise M, Belcari N, Del Guerra A, Bartoli A, Fabbri S, Zanetti G. Multi-ray
based system matrix generation for 3D PET reconstruction. Physics in Medicine and
Biology, 53(23):6925 - 6945, 2008.
9.1.11 Attanasi F, Belcari N, Del Guerra A, Enghardt W, Moehrs S, Parodi K, Rosso V, Vecchio
S. Comparison of two dedicated “in beam” PET systems via simultaneous imaging of
12 C-induced β + -activity. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 54(2):N29 - N35, 2009.
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9.1.12 Vecchio S, Attanasi F, Belcari N, Camarda M, Cirrone G A P, Cuttone G, Di Rosa F,
Lanconelli N, Moehrs S, Rosso V, Russo G, Del Guerra A. A PET prototype for “in-beam”
monitoring of proton therapy. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 56(1):51-56, 2009.
9.1.13 Del Guerra A, Belcari N, Bisogni M G, Lloca LLacer G, Marcatili S, Moehrs S. Advances in
position sensitive photodetectors for PET applications. Nuclear Instruments and Methods
in Physics Research Section A, 604(1-2):319-322, 2009.
9.1.14 Lloca LLacer G, Belcari N, Bisogni M G, Collazuol G, Marcatili S, Moehrs S, Morsani F,
Piemonte C, Del Guerra A. Energy and Timing Resolution Studies With Silicon Photomultipliers
(SiPMs) and 4-Pixel SiPM Matrices for PET. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear
Science, 56(3):543-548, 2009.
9.1.15 Attanasi F, Belcari N, Moehrs S, Rosso V, Vecchio S, Cirrone P G A, Cuttone G, Lojacono
P, Romano F, Lanconelli N, Del Guerra A. Characterization of an In-Beam PET
Prototype for Proton Therapy with Different Target Compositions. IEEE Transactions
on Nuclear Science, 57(3):1563-1569, 2010.
9.1.16 Bonifacio D A B, Belcari N, Moehrs S, Moralles M, Rosso V, Vecchio S, Del Guerra A. A
Time Efficient Optical Model for GATE Simulation of a LYSO Scintillation Matrix Used
in PET Applications. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 57(5):2483-2489, 2010.
9.1.17 Cornelio A, Gasperini F, Lo Meo S, Lanconelli N, Moehrs S, Marcatili S, Bisogni M G,
Del Guerra A. Comparison of different reconstruction methods for planar images in small
gamma cameras. Journal of Instrumentation, 6(1):C01030, 2011.
9.1.18 Sportelli G, Belcari N, Guerra P, Spinella F, Franchi G, Attanasi F, Moehrs S, Rosso V,
Santos A, Del Guerra A. Reprogrammable Acquisition Architecture for Dedicated Positron
Emission Tomography. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 58(3):695-702, 2011.
9.1.19 Guiducci L, Liistro T, Burchielli S, Panetta D, Bonora D, Di Cecco P, Bucci M, Moehrs S,
Del Guerra A, Salvadori P A, Iozzo P. Contribution of organ blood flow, intrinsic tissue
clearance and glycemia to the regulation of glucose utilization in obese and type 2 diabetic
rats: a PET study. Nutrition, metabolism and cardiovascular disease, 21(9):726-732, 2011.
9.2 Conference Proceedings Papers
9.2.1 Brelstaff G, Moehrs S, Anedda P, Tuveri M and Zanetti G. Electronic Patient Records
on the Java InfoBus. In PAJAVA 2000-Conference, ISBN: 1902426096, Manchaster, UK,
2000.
9.2.2 Moehrs S, Brelstaff G, Anedda P, Tuveri M and Zanetti G. Internet Patient Records:
new techniques. In MEDNET 2000: 5th World Congress on the Internet in Medicine,
ISBN: 1586031465, Brussels, Belgium, 2000.
9.2.3 Anedda P, Moehrs S, Brelstaff G, Tuveri M and Zanetti G. Cartella Clinica Elettronica
su Piattaforma Java InfoBus. In Workshop: Dagli oggetti agli agenti: tendenze evolutive
dei sistemi software, ISBN: 88-371-1195-9, Parma, Italy, 2000.
9.2.4 Moehrs S, Herre J and Geiger R. Analysing Decompressed Audio with the Inverse Decoder
- Towards an Operative Algorithm. In Audio Engineering Society: 112th Convention
Record, CDROM: aes19, Preprint Number 5576, Munich, Germany, 2002.
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9.2.5 Moehrs S, Belcari N, Del Guerra A, Herbert D J, Mandelkern M A, Motta A, and
Saveliev V. A Small-Animal PET Design Using SiPMs and Anger Logic with Intrinsic
DOI. In IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium / Medical Imaging Conference Record, M9-147,
6:3475-3479, DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1466635, CDROM: 04CH37604C, ISBN: 0-7803-
8701-5, Rome, Italy, 2004.
9.2.6 Moehrs S, Belmonte G, Biagi L, Cosottini M, Del Guerra A, Tosetti M. Bioelectric field
simulations on cartesian grids: accurate treatment of anisotropies, singularities and immersed
interfaces. In Brain Topography, Proceedings of the 17th Meeting of the International
Society for Brain Electromagnetic Topography (ISBET), DOI: 10.1007/s10548-
006-0016-8, ISSN(online):1573-6792, ISSN(print):0896-0267, Springer Netherlands, Chieti,
Italy, 2006.
9.2.7 Llosá G, Battiston R, Bisogni G, Collazuol G, Boscardin M, Corsi F, Dalla Betta G F,
Del Guerra A, Dinu N, Levi G, Marcatili S, Moehrs S, Marzocca C, Piemonte C, Pozza A,
Sbarra C, Quadrani L. Novel Silicon Photomultipliers for PET Application. In IEEE
Nuclear Science Symposium / Medical Imaging Conference Record, M06-88, 3:1875-1879,
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354259, CDROM: CH37832, ISBN: 1-4244-0560-2, San Diego,
USA, 2006.
9.2.8 Moehrs S, Defrise M, Belcari N, Del Guerra A. Multi-Ray based system matrix generation
for 3D PET reconstruction. In Proceedings of The 9th International Meeting on Fully
Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, pages 217-
220, Lindau, Germany, 2007.
9.2.9 Llosá G, Belcari N, Collazuol G, Del Guerra A, Marcatili S, Moehrs S, Piemonte C, Carpenter
T A, Hawkes R C, Lucas A J, Stevick J W. Novel Solid State Photomultipliers and
their application to very high resolution PET and Hybrid Systems. In Transactions of
the European Nuclear Conference, ISBN: 978-92-95064-03-4, Brussels, Belgium, September
2007.
9.2.10 Bartoli A, Belcari N, Fabbri S, Moehrs S, Del Guerra A. Characterization of the physical
performance of the new PET/SPECT small animal scanner YAP-(S)PET II. In European
Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Proceedings of the Annual
Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, 495, 34(Supplement2):S228,
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-007-0545-8, ISSN(online): 1619-7089, ISSN(print): 1619-7070, Copenhagen,
Denmark, 2007.
9.2.11 Vecchio S, Attanasi F, Belcari N, Camarda M, Cirrone G A P, Cuttone G, Del Guerra A,
Di Rosa F, Lanconelli N, Moehrs S, Rosso V, Russo G. A PET prototype for in-beam
monitoring of proton therapy. In IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium / Medical Imaging
Conference, N24-362, 2:1607-1611, DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4437306, Honolulu,
Hawaii, 2007.
9.2.12 Llosá G, Belcari N, Bisogni M G, Collazuol G, Del Guerra A, Marcatili S, Moehrs S,
Piemonte C. Silicon Photomultipliers and SiPM matrices as Photodetectors in Nuclear
Medicine. In IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium / Medical Imaging Conference, M14-4,
5:3220-3223, DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436825, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2007.
9.2.13 Llosá G, Belcari N, Bisogni M G, Del Guerra A, Marcatili S, Moehrs S, Oliver J F,
Rafecas M, Piemonte C. Nuevos detectores para imgenes mdicas multimodalidad. XXIX
Congreso de la Sociedad Espanola de Medicina Nuclear; Revista Espanola de Medicina
Nuclear (in print), Valencia, Spain, 2008.
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9.2.14 Del Guerra A, Attanasi F, Belcari N, Moehrs S, Rosso V, Vecchio S, Cirrone G A P,
Cuttone G, Lojacono P, Romano S, Lanconelli N. Characterization of an “In-Beam” PET
Prototype for Proton Therapy with Different Target Compositions. In IEEE Nuclear
Science Symposium / Medical Imaging Conference, N09-1 (invited), Dresden, Germany,
2008.
9.2.15 Bonifacio D A B, Belcari N, Moehrs S, Moralles M, Rosso V, Vecchio S, Del Guerra A. A
time efficient optical model for GATE simulation of a LYSO scintillation matrix used in
PET applications. In IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium / Medical Imaging Conference,
N25-102, 1468-1473, DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5402311, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2009.
9.2.16 Sportelli G, Attanasi F, Belcari N, Franchi G, Guerra P, Moehrs S, Rosso V, Santos A,
Spinella F, Vecchio S, Del Guerra A. A flexible acquisition system for modular dual
head Positron Emission Mammography. In IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium / Medical
Imaging Conference, M09-332, 3395-3398, DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401766, Orlando,
Florida, USA, 2009.
9.2.17 Belcari N, Attanasi F, Moehrs S, Rosso V, Santos A, Spinella F, Sportelli G, Del Guerra A.
A novel random counts estimation method for PET using a symmetrical delayed window
technique and random single event acquisition. In IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium /
Medical Imaging Conference, M13-90, 3611-3614, DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401833,
Orlando, Florida, USA, 2009.
9.2.18 Pennazio F, Barrio J, Bisogni M G, Cerello P, De Luca G, Del Guerra A, Lacasta C,
Llosá G, Magazzù G, Moehrs S, Peroni C, Wheadon R. Simulations of the 4DMPET SiPM-
Based PET Module. In IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium / Medical Imaging Conference,
M6-5, 2316-2320, Valencia, Spain, 2011.
9.3 Conference Abstracts
9.3.1 Brelstaff G, Moehrs S, Anedda P, Tuveri M and Zanetti G. Records Medici Elettronici:
nuove tecniche. In EuroSalute 2000: Applicazioni Informatiche e Telematiche in Medicina,
Milano, Italy, 2000.
9.3.2 Moehrs S, Motta A and Del Guerra A, A Statistical Image Reconstruction Method for PET
Using Planograms, In IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium / Medical Imaging Conference,
M2-205, Rome, Italy, 2004.
9.3.3 Belmonte G, Biagi L, Moehrs S, Pesaresi I, Bonanni E, Tosetti M, Cosottini M. On the
correlation between EEG and fMRI in epilepsy. In 10th EFOMP Congress (European
Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics), Pisa, Italy, 2007.
9.3.4 Bartoli A, Belcari N, Fabbri S, Panetta D, Moehrs S, Del Guerra A. Implementation of
YAP-(S)PET with high spatial resolution CT smallanimal scanner. Diagnostic Molecular
Imaging (DiMI)/ European Molecular Imaging Laboratories (EMIL) Annual Meeting,
Leuven, Belgium, 2008.
9.3.5 Attanasi F, Belcari N, Cirrone G A P, Cuttone G, Del Guerra A, Lanconelli N, Lojacono P,
Moehrs S, Romano F, Rosso V, Vecchio S. Caratterizzazione di un prototipo PET in beam
per la dosimetria in adroterapia. XCIV Annual National Congress of the Italian Physical
Society, Genova, Italy, 2008.
9.3.6 Moehrs S, Belcari N, Del Guerra A, Panetta D. Iterative image reconstruction techniques
in nuclear medicine. XCIV Annual National Congress of the Italian Physical Society,
Genova, Italy, 2008.
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9.4 Oral Presentations
9.4.1 Moehrs S, Brelstaff G, Anedda P, Tuveri M and Zanetti G. Internet Patient Records: new
techniques. MEDNET 2000: 5th World Congress on the Internet in Medicine, Brussels,
Belgium, 2000.
9.4.2 Moehrs S, Herre J and Geiger R. Analysing Decompressed Audio with the Inverse Decoder
- Towards an Operative Algorithm. 112th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society,
Munich, Germany, 2002.
9.4.3 Moehrs S, Defrise M, Belcari N, Del Guerra A. Multi-Ray based system matrix generation
for 3D PET reconstruction. The 9th International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional
Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Lindau, Germany, 2007.
9.4.4 Moehrs S, Belcari N, Del Guerra A, Panetta D. Iterative image reconstruction techniques
in nuclear medicine. XCIV Annual National Congress of the Italian Physical Society,
Genova, Italy, 2008.
9.5 Poster Presentations
9.5.1 Moehrs S, Motta A and Del Guerra A, A Statistical Image Reconstruction Method for
PET Using Planograms, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium / Medical Imaging Conference,
Rome, Italy, 2004.
9.5.2 Moehrs S, Belcari N, Del Guerra A, Herbert D J, Mandelkern M A, Motta A, and
Saveliev V. A Small-Animal PET Design Using SiPMs and Anger Logic with Intrinsic
DOI. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium / Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, 2004.
9.5.3 Moehrs S, Del Guerra A, Herbert D J, Mandelkern M A. A High Resolution Gamma
Camera for Small-Animal Positron Emission Tomography. IEEE EMBS International
Summer School on Biomedical Imaging, Berder, France, 2006.
9.5.4 Moehrs S, Belmonte G, Biagi L, Cosottini M, Del Guerra A, Tosetti M. Bioelectric field
simulations on cartesian grids: accurate treatment of anisotropies, singularities and immersed
interfaces. 17th Meeting of the International Society for Brain Electromagnetic
Topography (ISBET), Chieti, Italy, 2006.
9.6 Technical Reports
9.6.1 Attanasi F, Belcari N, Camarda M, Cirrone G A P, Cuttone G, Del Guerra A, Di Rosa F,
Lanconelli N, Moehrs S, Rosso V, Russo G, Vecchio S. Preliminary Results from an inbeam
PET system. LNS Activity Report 2007 (Istituto di Fisica Nucleare - Laboratori
Nazionali del Sud), http://www.lns.infn.it/, Catania, Italy, 2007.
9.6.2 Attanasi F, Belcari N, Cirrone G A P, Cuttone G, Del Guerra A, Lojacono P, Lanconelli N,
Moehrs S, Romano F, Rosso V, Vecchio S. An “in-beam PET” prototype for proton therapy:
preliminary results using targets of different composition. LNS Activity Report 2008
(Istituto di Fisica Nucleare - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud), http://www.lns.infn.it/, Catania,
Italy, 2008.
9.6.3 Attanasi F, Belcari N, Cirrone G A P, Cuttone G, Del Guerra A, Di Rosa F, Moehrs S,
Romano F, Rosso V. An “In-Beam PET” Prototype for Proton Therapy: The Experiments
on Inhomogeneous Phantoms. LNS Activity Report 2009 (Istituto di Fisica Nucleare -
Laboratori Nazionali del Sud), http://www.lns.infn.it/, Catania, Italy, 2009.
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9.6.4 Attanasi F, Belcari N, Cirrone G A P, Cuttone G, Del Guerra A, Moehrs S, Romano F, Sardina
D, Stancapiano C, Rosso V. An “In-Beam PET” Prototype for Proton Therapy: Preliminary
results on the accuracy of the activity distall fall off localization. LNS Activity Report
2010 (Istituto di Fisica Nucleare - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud), http://www.lns.infn.it/,
Catania, Italy, 2010.
9.7 Patent Applications
9.7.1 Del Guerra A, Panetta D, Belcari N, Moehrs S. Metodo per la calibrazione geometrica di
un’apparecchiatura per tomografia cone-beam e apparecchiatura che attua tale metodo.
IT-PI2007A000129, Italy, 2007.
10 Attended Summer Schools
Summer Academy of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Technical University
of Munich, topic: Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing, 2001, Sarntal, Italy;
European School of Medical Physics, topic: Medical Computing, 2004, Archamps, France;
CINECA Summer School, topic: Parallel Computing, 2005, Bologna, Italy;
IEEE EMBS International Summer School, topic: Biomedical Imaging, 2006, Berder,
France.
11 Language Skills
German: mother tongue;
English: fluent (CEFR level: C2);
Italian: fluent (CEFR level: C2);
French: fluent (CEFR level: C1);
Dutch: basics (CEFR level: A2).
12 Computer Skills
Programming languages: 10+ years experience with Fortran77/90, C, C++, and Java TM
;
Parallel programming: MPI, OpenMP;
Operating systems: Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows Systems;
Mathematical tools: 7+ years experience with Matlab, Maple;
Physics tools: 7+ years experience with Geant4 programming;
Graphics and scientific visualisation: OpenGL, OpenDX.
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13 Other Professional Skills
Intellectual property rights: in-depth knowledge of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
and the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
Pisa, July 1st, 2012
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