● Scientific research and technology innovations in X-ray/CT imaging and its applications to security inspection, industrial and medical fields.
Principal investigator of the following projects:
● 2018-present, Wide-coverage multi-energy CT imaging, Startup Funding for young scholar.
● 2018-present, Novel CT imaging for image guidance, Startup funding for new faculty
Key contributor to the following project.
● 2016-2018, Biology-guiding Radiotherapy, New product R&D, Reflexion Medical, CA, USA.
● 2013-2016, Revolution CT GSI Xtream, New product R&D, GE Healthcare, WI, USA.
● 2010-2013, Revolution CT, New technology R&D, GE Global Research, NY, USA.
● 2010-2013, Cardiac CT: advanced architectures and algorithms, NIH Grant, USA.
● 2008-2010, Efficient scatter correction, NIH Grant, USA.
Selected publications
● Xinbin Li, Hewei Gao, Zhiqiang Chen*, Li Zhang, Xiaohua Zhu, Shengping Wang, and Weijun Peng, “Diagnosis of breast cancer based on microcalcifications using grating-based phase contrast CT,” European Radiology, 28(9), pp. 3742-3750, 2018.
● Paul Fitzgerald*, Peter M. Edic, Hewei Gao, Yannan Jin, Jiao Wang, Ge Wang, Bruno De Man, “Quest for the Ultimate Cardiac CT Scanner,” Medical Physics, 44(9), pp. 4506-4524, 2017.
● Sen Wang, Hewei Gao, Li Zhang*, Dufan Wu, and Xiaofei Xu, “Quasimonochromatic imaging in x-ray CT via spectral deconvolution using photon-counting detectors,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, 60(6), pp. 2208-2223, 2017.
● Hewei Gao*, Lei Zhu, and Rebecca Fahrig, “Virtual Scatter Modulation for X-ray CT Scatter Correction Using Primary Modulator,” Journal of X-ray Science and Technology, 25(6), pp. 869-885, 2017.
● Paul Fitzgerald*, James Bennett, Jeffrey Carr, Peter M. Edic, Daniel Entrikin, Hewei Gao, Maria Iatrou, Yannan Jin, Baodong Liu, Ge Wang, Jiao Wang, Zhye Yin, Hengyong Yu, Kai Zeng, and Bruno De man, “Cardiac CT: A System Architecture Study,” Journal of X-ray Science and Technology, 24(1), pp. 43-65, 2016.
● Hewei Gao*, Li Zhang*, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuxiang Xing, Hui Xue, and Jianping Cheng, “Straight-Line-Trajectory-Based X-Ray Tomographic Imaging for Security Inspections: System Design, Image Reconstruction and Preliminary Results,” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 60(5), pp. 3955-3968, 2013.
● Rainer Grimmer, Rebecca Fahrig, Waldo Hinshaw, Hewei Gao, and Marc Kachelriess*, “Empirical Cupping Correction for CT Scanners with Primary Modulation (ECCP),” Medical Physics, 39(2), pp. 825-831, 2012.
● Tianye Niu, Mingshan Sun, Josh Star-Lack, Hewei Gao, Qiyong Fan, and Lei Zhu*, “Shading correction for on-board cone-beam CT in radiation therapy using planning MDCT images,” Medical Physics, 37(10), pp. 5395-5406, 2010.
● Hewei Gao*, Lei Zhu, and Rebecca Fahrig, “Modulator design for X-ray scatter correction using primary modulation: Material selection,” Medical Physics, 37(8), pp. 4029-4037, 2010.
● Hewei Gao*, Rebecca Fahrig, N. Robert Bennett, Mingshan Sun, Josh Star-Lack, and Lei Zhu, “Scatter correction method for X-ray CT using primary modulation: Phantom studies,” Medical Physics, 37(2), pp. 934-946, 2010.
● Hewei Gao*, Li Zhang*, Yuxiang Xing, Zhiqiang Chen, and Jianping Cheng, “An improved form of linogram algorithm for image reconstruction,” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 55(1), pp. 552-559, 2008.
● Hewei Gao*, Li Zhang, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuxiang Xing, Jianping Cheng, and Yigang Yang, “Application of X-ray CT to liquid security inspection: system analysis and beam hardening correction,” Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A, 579(1), pp. 395-399, 2007.
● Hewei Gao*, Li Zhang, Yuxiang Xing, Zhiqiang Chen, Jian Zhang, and Jianping Cheng, “Volumetric imaging from a multisegment straight-line-trajectory and a practical reconstruction algorithm,” Optical Engineering, 46(7), pp. 077004, 2007.
● Hewei Gao*, Li Zhang, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuxiang Xing, Jianping Cheng, and Zhihua Qi, “Direct filtered-backprojection-type reconstruction from a straight-line trajectory,” Optical Engineering, 46(5), pp. 057003, 2007.
● Hewei Gao*, Li Zhang*, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuxiang Xing, and Shuanglei Li, “Beam hardening correction for middle-energy industrial computerized tomography,” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 53(5), pp. 2796-2807, 2006.
All publications in my Google Scholar academic profile:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JOl6xOoAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN&oi=ao
