Srinivasan Vedantham, PhD
Biography
Srinivasan Vedantham, PhD, 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. He is also a board-certified diagnostic medical physicist and was elected Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
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 have 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 and clinically translating advanced tomographic techniques and systems for breast imaging. His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health.