<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false"><li>PhD student Ekaterina Shanina from UC Davis wins Physics in Medicine & Biology Early Career Researcher Award for her research on a novel brain phantom for PET.</li><li>Shanina's study was selected as the best paper in the journal's Early Career Researcher Focus Collection 2024, aimed at promoting the work of emerging researchers in the medical physics field.</li><li>Her award-winning paper introduces the PICASSO phantom for PET, allowing for realistic neuroimaging studies with high quantitative accuracy, particularly beneficial for evaluating high-resolution brain PET scanners.</li><li>The PICASSO phantom overcomes limitations of traditional PET phantoms by using activity painting technique, offering a more flexible and efficient way to model various activity distributions in the brain for PET imaging.</li></ul>

PhD student Ekaterina Shanina wins Early Career Researcher Award for PET phantom study

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