Professor and Affiliate Faculty in Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
- Image-guided radiation therapy
- Image registration for patient positioning (2D/3D and 3D/3D) and treatment planning (4D computed tomography)
- Deformable, similarity measures, and optimization algorithms for image registration
- Imaging theory: measurement and computation of MTF, DQE
- Detector development: development of prototype high DQE imaging detectors for medical imaging and industrial/homeland security
- Linear accelerator quality assurance using electronic portal imaging devices and digital image processing
Education
| 1988 | PhD (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics) | University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada |
| 1985 | MS (Mathematics) | University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada |
| 1983 | BS (Physics) | Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Professional Appointments
| 2005-present | Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida |
| 1999-2005 | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida |
| 1999-2005 | Adjunct Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Memphis |
| 1998-2005 | Medical Physicist, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital |
| 1998-2005 | Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Tennessee |
| 1996-2005 | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Tennessee |
| 1996-1998 | Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee |
| 1993-1998 | Medical Physicist, UT Medical Group, Inc. |
| 1991-1993 | Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University |
| 1991-1993 | Medical Physicist, Cancer Treatment & Research Foundation |
Professional Memberships
| 2005-present | Florida Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine |
| 1993-present | Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine |
| 1992-present | American Association of Physicists in Medicine |
| 1992-present | Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists |
Awards and Honors
| 2009 | Selected as one of the top 10 finalists in Young Investigator Symposium at the 51st Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine |
| 2004 | Summer Mentorship Award, Undergraduate Student Project, American Association of Physicists in Medicine |
| 2002 | Best Paper Award for “Verification of multileaf collimator leaf positions using an electronic portal imaging device,” Southeast Association of American Physicists in Medicine, |
Patents
- Samant S, Gopal A, Inventors; University of Florida; “Method and Apparatus for X-Ray Radiographic Imaging.”; U.S. patent application serial no. 12/996,718, filed on December 7, 2010. Published application no. US-2011-0110490-A1; May 12 2011.
- Samant S, Laughter J, Jain J, Inventors; St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; “Multilayered Board Comprising Folded Flexible Circuits and Method of Manufacture”; published US Patent 6,483,713 B2; 2002.
Publications
Dr. Samant’s publications can be found at the following public database: My NCBI Bibliography (Sanjiv S. Samant, PhD).
