Dr Julian Matthews Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
- Email: julian.matthews@manchester.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 0024
- Fax: +44 (0)161 275 0003
The University of Manchester
Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre
27 Palatine Road
Manchester
M20 3LJ
Research
Current research interests include:
- The application of PET imaging to drug development
- The development of less invasive and arduous scanning techniques whilst maintaining data quality
- Methodological development in improving signal to noise of PET data, including image reconstruction, kinetic modelling, and methods to optimise data acquisition.
Biography
Dr Julian Matthews studied mathematics before completing a Ph.D in automotive engineering at Warwick University . Since then he has more than 10 years experience in Positron Emission Tomography methodology at a number of academic (MRC cyclotron unit – Hammersmith, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre – Cambridge), and more recently at the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline. In January 2005, he returned to academia taking up his current post at the new Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre.
Selected publications
2012
- Comley, R., Cervenka, S., Palhagen, S., Panagiotidis, G., Matthews, J., Lai, R., Halldin, C., Farde, L., Nichols, T. & Whitcher, B (2012). A Comparison of Gray Matter Density in Restless Legs Syndrome Patients and Matched Controls Using Voxel-Based Morphometry. Journal of Neuroimaging, 22(1), 28-32. eScholarID:158512
- Walker, M., Feldmann, M., Matthews, J., Anton-Rodriguez, J., Wang, S., Koepp, M. & Asselin, M (2012). Optimization of methods for quantification of rCBF using high-resolution [ 15 O]H 2 O PET images. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 57(8), 2251. eScholarID:158510
2009
- Walker MD, Matthews JC, Asselin M-C, Saleem A, Dickinson C, Charnley N, Julyan PJ, Price PM, and Jones T. (2009). Optimization of the Injected Activity in Dynamic 3D PET: A Generalized Approach Using Patient-Specific NECs as Demonstrated by a Series of 15O-H2O Scans. The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 50(9), 1409-1417. eScholarID:16741 | DOI:10.2967/jnumed.109.062679