Personal Data
Name: Di Domenico Giovanni
Citizenship: Italian
Birth: Giulianova (TE), October 20, 1962
Address: University of Ferrara, Department of Physics, Building C via Saragat 1,
44121 Ferrara Italy
Phone: +39 0532 974223
Fax: +39 0532 974211
e-mail: didomenico@fe.infn.it
Current Position
1999 to date: Medical Physics Researcher at the Matemathics, Physics and Natural Sciences Faculty, University of Ferrara
Education
1991 Degree in Physics at the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Dissertation: “Sistema Automatizzato per misure di spettroscopia Raman e sue applicazioni allo studio dell’Azobenzene” Advisor: Prof. Giancarlo Gorini.
1992-1995 Ph.D Student, Nuclear Medicine Ph.D. School, Department of Physics, University of Ferrara – Italy.
1997-1998 Post-doc position at the Department of Physics, University of Ferrara.
Courses & Workshops
1993 “Digital Networks and Communications in Nuclear Medicine”, The Mintcher Institute, Toronto, Canada, 4-5 June.
1994 “Radiation transport calculation using the EGS4 Monte Carlo system”, Capri, Italy, 28 June – 1 July.
1995 “La Fisica applicata alla Medicina Nucleare”, Scuola Superiore di Fisica Biomedica, Centro di Cultura Scientifica “Alessandro Volta”, Villa Olmo, 27 November – 1 December.
1997 “2nd workshop on Electron and Photon Transport Theory applied to Radiation
Dose calculation ”, The Lawrence H. Lanzl Institute of Medical Physics,
Seattle, Washington, USA, June 2-5.
2001 First summer school on Computer Graphics, CINECA Italy, 18-29 June.
Research interests
Small animal imaging, development of position sensitive detectors for medical applications, algorithms for medical imaging processing, tomographic reconstructions in PET, SPECT and CT.
Fabry-Perot Cavity, Cotton-Mouton effect in gases, vacuum birefringence in rotating magnetic field.
Contributions to research projects
European-funded Projects
2009 to date: “LABSYNC: Laboratory Compact Light Sources” Seventh Research
Framework Programme
Italian Ministry-funded projects
Prin 2006: “Studio di effetti sistematici dovuti agli specchi in un ellissometro ad
alta sensibilità basato su una cavità Fabry-Perot”.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Cantatore Giovanni, University of Trieste
Prin 2000: “Sviluppo di rivelatori sensibili alla posizione ad alta risoluzione
spaziale per applicazioni PET”.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Alberto Del Guerra, University of Pisa
Cofin 1998: “Tomografia integrata (SPECT-TAC) per lo studio del cancro della
mammella”.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Alberto Del Guerra, University of Pisa
Ferrara University-funded Projects
2008: “Tecniche di imaging avanzato con radiazioni ionizzanti”.
2007: “Recupero della qualità dell’immagine in sistemi di imaging con radiazioni
ionizzanti”.
2007: “Imaging Molecolare e Terapia Radiometabolica in Campo Oncologico”
2006: “Sviluppo di un tomografo ibrido emissione/trasmissione per applicazioni
biomedicali”
2004/05: “Nuove tecniche diagnostiche con radiazioni ionizzanti in medicina”
Professional Affiliations
2002 to date: IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
2001/05: Society of Nuclear Medicine
Name: Di Domenico Giovanni
Citizenship: Italian
Birth: Giulianova (TE), October 20, 1962
Address: University of Ferrara, Department of Physics, Building C via Saragat 1,
44121 Ferrara Italy
Phone: +39 0532 974223
Fax: +39 0532 974211
e-mail: didomenico@fe.infn.it
Current Position
1999 to date: Medical Physics Researcher at the Matemathics, Physics and Natural Sciences Faculty, University of Ferrara
Education
1991 Degree in Physics at the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Dissertation: “Sistema Automatizzato per misure di spettroscopia Raman e sue applicazioni allo studio dell’Azobenzene” Advisor: Prof. Giancarlo Gorini.
1992-1995 Ph.D Student, Nuclear Medicine Ph.D. School, Department of Physics, University of Ferrara – Italy.
1997-1998 Post-doc position at the Department of Physics, University of Ferrara.
Courses & Workshops
1993 “Digital Networks and Communications in Nuclear Medicine”, The Mintcher Institute, Toronto, Canada, 4-5 June.
1994 “Radiation transport calculation using the EGS4 Monte Carlo system”, Capri, Italy, 28 June – 1 July.
1995 “La Fisica applicata alla Medicina Nucleare”, Scuola Superiore di Fisica Biomedica, Centro di Cultura Scientifica “Alessandro Volta”, Villa Olmo, 27 November – 1 December.
1997 “2nd workshop on Electron and Photon Transport Theory applied to Radiation
Dose calculation ”, The Lawrence H. Lanzl Institute of Medical Physics,
Seattle, Washington, USA, June 2-5.
2001 First summer school on Computer Graphics, CINECA Italy, 18-29 June.
Research interests
Small animal imaging, development of position sensitive detectors for medical applications, algorithms for medical imaging processing, tomographic reconstructions in PET, SPECT and CT.
Fabry-Perot Cavity, Cotton-Mouton effect in gases, vacuum birefringence in rotating magnetic field.
Contributions to research projects
European-funded Projects
2009 to date: “LABSYNC: Laboratory Compact Light Sources” Seventh Research
Framework Programme
Italian Ministry-funded projects
Prin 2006: “Studio di effetti sistematici dovuti agli specchi in un ellissometro ad
alta sensibilità basato su una cavità Fabry-Perot”.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Cantatore Giovanni, University of Trieste
Prin 2000: “Sviluppo di rivelatori sensibili alla posizione ad alta risoluzione
spaziale per applicazioni PET”.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Alberto Del Guerra, University of Pisa
Cofin 1998: “Tomografia integrata (SPECT-TAC) per lo studio del cancro della
mammella”.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Alberto Del Guerra, University of Pisa
Ferrara University-funded Projects
2008: “Tecniche di imaging avanzato con radiazioni ionizzanti”.
2007: “Recupero della qualità dell’immagine in sistemi di imaging con radiazioni
ionizzanti”.
2007: “Imaging Molecolare e Terapia Radiometabolica in Campo Oncologico”
2006: “Sviluppo di un tomografo ibrido emissione/trasmissione per applicazioni
biomedicali”
2004/05: “Nuove tecniche diagnostiche con radiazioni ionizzanti in medicina”
Professional Affiliations
2002 to date: IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
2001/05: Society of Nuclear Medicine
