Program

10:20-11:50 a.m. Thursday February 9, 2006          Flamingo Room		Medical Imaging and Image Processing II Chair: Michael Brandt — UT-Houston Health Science Center Co-chair: Osama Mawlawi — M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
	Design and Performance Characteristics of a Low-Cost High-Sensitivity Dedicated Animal PET Camera
		H. Baghaei, W-H. Wong, Y. Zhang, H. Li, Y. Wang, R. Ramirez, S. Kim, J.Liu and S. Liu — M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
	Partial Volume Correction of Lung Nodules Using PET/CT
		W.M. Bradley, T. Pan, R. Wendt III, J. Erasmus, R.A. White and O. Mawlawi — M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
	Correcting Respiratory Motion Artifacts in PET Imaging
		F. Qiao1, T. Pan2, J.W. Clark, Jr.1 and O.R. Mawlawi2 — 1Rice University and 2M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
	Breathing Air Flow Pattern Analysis in Thermal Imaging
		J. Fei and I.T. Pavlidis — University of Houston
	Multiscale Wavelet Classification and Despeckling Techniques for Ultrasonic Images
		Y.Yue1, M.M. Croitoru2, A. Bidani2, J.B. Zwischenberger3 and J.W Clark, Jr.1 — 1Rice University, 2UT Houston Medical School and 3UTMB, Galveston