Srinivasan Vedantham, PhD
Cancer Prevention and Control Program
Biography
Srinivasan Vedantham, PhD, earned his B.E. (Honors) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India and his MS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Akron. He then was a research engineer in the Radiological Physics laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and subsequently was a faculty at the Department of Radiology at Emory University. He joined the University of Arizona after serving as a faculty at the Department of Radiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and as an adjunct faculty in Biomedical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Cancer Focus
Dr. Vedantham’s research interests are in the design, development and clinical translation of novel x-ray imaging systems and imaging techniques with particular focus on oncological imaging. He along with his collaborators and colleagues had made major contributions to breast cancer imaging including small-field digital mammography for stereotactic core-biopsies, full-field digital mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis. Currently, he is working on developing advanced tomographic techniques and systems for breast imaging and its clinical translation. This design, development and clinical translation oriented research is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Selected Publications
S. Vedantham, Karellas, A., Vijayaraghavan, G. R., and Kopans, D. B., “Digital Breast Tomosynthesis: State of the Art.”, Radiology, vol. 277, no. 3, pp. 663-84, 2015. PMCID: PMC4666121 PMID: 26599926
S. Vedantham, Shi, L., Karellas, A., and O'Connell, A. M., “Dedicated breast CT: fibroglandular volume measurements in a diagnostic population.”, Med Phys, vol. 39, no. 12, pp. 7317-28, 2012. PMCID: PMC3524966 PMID: 23231281
I. Sechopoulos, Vedantham, S., Suryanarayanan, S., D'Orsi, C. J., and Karellas, A., “Monte Carlo and phantom study of the radiation dose to the body from dedicated CT of the breast.”, Radiology, vol. 247, no. 1, pp. 98-105, 2008. PMCID: PMC2430761 PMID: 18292479
S. Vedantham, Karellas, A., Suryanarayanan, S., Albagli, D., Han, S., Tkaczyk, E. J., Landberg, C. E., Opsahl-Ong, B., Granfors, P. R., Levis, I., D'Orsi, C. J., and Hendrick, R. E., “Full breast digital mammography with an amorphous silicon-based flat panel detector: physical characteristics of a clinical prototype.”, Med Phys, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 558-67, 2000. PMCID: PMC4280189 PMID: 10757607
S. Suryanarayanan, Karellas, A., Vedantham, S., Glick, S. J., D'Orsi, C. J., Baker, S. P., and Webber, R. L., “Comparison of tomosynthesis methods used with digital mammography.”, Acad Radiol, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 1085-97, 2000. PMID: 11131053