Martin P. Tornai

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Associate Professor (primary appt: Radiology, Medical Physics Program (Primary Appt.))

Contact Information:
Education:

PhDUCLA School of Medcine1997
Ph.D.University of California at Los Angeles1997
B.S.Cornell University1989

Specialties:

Medical Imaging

Representative Publications: (More Publications)
    • DJ Crotty, RL McKinley, MP Tornai, Experimental spectral measurements of heavy K-edge filtered beams for x-ray computed mammotomography., Physics in medicine and biology, vol 52 no. 3 (2007), pp. 603-16 [doi] [abs].
    • CN Brzymialkiewicz, MP Tornai, RL McKinley, SJ Cutler, JE Bowsher, Performance of dedicated emission mammotomography for various breast shapes and sizes., Physics in medicine and biology, vol 51 no. 19 (2006), pp. 5051-64 [doi] [abs].
    • CN Brzymialkiewicz, MP Tornai, RL McKinley, JE Bowsher, Evaluation of fully 3-D emission mammotomography with a compact cadmium zinc telluride detector., IEEE transactions on medical imaging, vol 24 no. 7 (2005), pp. 868-77 [abs].
    • E Samei, JT Dobbins 3rd, JY Lo, MP Tornai, A framework for optimising the radiographic technique in digital X-ray imaging., Radiation protection dosimetry, vol 114 no. 1-3 (2005), pp. 220-9 [doi] [abs].
    • RL McKinley, MP Tornai, E Samei, ML Bradshaw, Simulation study of a quasi-monochromatic beam for x-ray computed mammotomography., Medical physics, vol 31 no. 4 (2004), pp. 800-13 [abs].
    • MP Tornai, JE Bowsher, RJ Jaszczak, BC Pieper, KL Greer, PH Hardenbergh, RE Coleman, Mammotomography with pinhole incomplete circular orbit SPECT., Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, vol 44 no. 4 (2003), pp. 583-93 [abs].
    • MP Tornai, BE Patt, JS Iwanczyk, CR Tull, LR MacDonald, EJ Hoffman, A novel silicon array designed for intraoperative charged particle imaging., Medical physics, vol 29 no. 11 (2002), pp. 2529-40 [abs].
    • JE Bowsher, MP Tornai, J Peter, DE González Trotter, A Krol, DR Gilland, RJ Jaszczak, Modeling the axial extension of a transmission line source within iterative reconstruction via multiple transmission sources., IEEE transactions on medical imaging, vol 21 no. 3 (2002), pp. 200-15 [doi] [abs].
    • A Krol, JE Bowsher, SH Manglos, DH Feiglin, MP Tornai, FD Thomas, An EM algorithm for estimating SPECT emission and transmission parameters from emissions data only., IEEE transactions on medical imaging, vol 20 no. 3 (2001), pp. 218-32 [doi] [abs].
    • J Peter, MP Tornai, RJ Jaszczek, Analytical versus voxelized phantom representation for Monte Carlo simulation in radiological imaging., IEEE transactions on medical imaging, vol 19 no. 5 (2000), pp. 556-64 [doi] [abs].
    • EJ Hoffman, MP Tornai, M Janecek, BE Patt, JS Iwanczyk, Intraoperative probes and imaging probes., European journal of nuclear medicine, vol 26 no. 8 (1999), pp. 913-35 [abs].
    • MP Tornai, RJ Jaszczak, TG Turkington, RE Coleman, Small-animal PET: advent of a new era of PET research., Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, vol 40 no. 7 (1999), pp. 1176-9.
    • , MP Tornai, CS Levin, LR MacDonald, CH Holdsworth, EJ Hoffman. 1998. "A Miniature Phoswich Detector for Gamma-Ray Localization and Beta Imaging." IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS-45(3):1166-1173. (1998).
    • , MP Tornai, BE Patt, JS Iwanczyk, CS Levin, EJ Hoffman. 1997. "Discrete Scintillator Coupled Mercuric Iodide Photdetector Arrays for Breast Imaging." IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS-44(3): 1127-1133. (1997).
    • , MP Tornai, LR MacDonald, CS Levin, S Siegel, EJ Hoffman. 1996. "Design Considerations and Inital Performance of a 1.2 cm^2 Beta Imaging Intra-Operative Probe." IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS-43(4):2326-2335. (1996).