Scientific Personnel

Brief Bio

Anastasios (Tasos) Gaitanis holds a degree in Biomedical Engineering Technology from the TEI of Athens and a postgraduate degree (MSc) in Medical Physics from the University of Surrey, UK. He also holds a doctoral degree (PhD) in Medical Physics from the University of Patras, Greece. The title of his doctoral thesis is "Development of stopping rules for the MLEM and OSEM algorithms used in PET image reconstruction". As a researcher he has worked in Greek and international research programs and has taught courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Previously, he held the position of the Head of the Biomedical Technology Department of BRFAA. Since May 2014 he is Research Scientist in laboratory of preclinical imaging PET/CT of BRFAA .

Dr Tasos Gaitanis working in the field of medical tomographic imaging since 2003. In the beginning, he dealt with computed tomography (CT) dedicated on breast imaging. His involvement with Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging is since 2005. His doctoral thesis focused on developing of stopping rules for the iterative algorithms used in PET image reconstruction. Currently, apart from the PET image reconstruction, deals with computational intelligence systems in PET, as well as issues of quantification in PET imaging.

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Selected Publications

C Vlachopoulos, I Koutagias, et al, “Lymphoma Severity and Type are Associated with Aortic FDG Uptake by 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging”, JACC: CardiOncology, Vol 2, Issue 5, December 2020, 758-770.

C Tsoukalas, S Geninatti-Crish, A. Gaitanis, et al, “Tumor Targeting via Sialic Acid: [68Ga]DOTA-en-pba as a New Tool for Molecular Imaging of Cancer with PET”, Mol. Imag. Biol, 20(5) 2018, 798-807.

Gaitanis A, Kastis G, Vlastou E, Bouziotis P, Verginis P, Anagnostopoulos CD, “Investigation of image reconstruction parameters of the Mediso NanoScan PC small-animal PET/CT scanner for two different positron emitters under NEMA NU 4-2008 standards”. Mol. Imag. Biol 19(4), 2017, 550-559.

G. Kastis, D. Kyriakopoulou, A. Gaitanis, Y. Fernandez, B. F. Hutton & A. S. Fokas, “Evaluation of the Spline Reconstruction Technique for PET”, Medical Physics 41(4), (2014), 042501-1 – 042501-18.

C. Tsoumpas & A. Gaitanis, “Modeling and Simulation of 4D PET-CT and PET-MR Images”, PET Clinics, 8 (2013), 95-110.

A. Gaitanis, G. Kontaxakis, G. Spyrou, et al, “PET image reconstruction: A stopping rule for the MLEM algorithm based on properties of the updating coefficients”, Computerized Medical Imaging & Graphics 34 (2010), 131-141.

A. Gaitanis, G. Kontaxakis, G. Spyrou, et al, “Studying the properties of the updating coefficients in the OSEM algorithm for iterative image reconstruction in PET”, Computer Programs and Methods in Biomedicine Vol. 99, No 3, (2010), 219-229.

P. Gonias, N. Bertsekas, N. Karakatsanis, G. Saatsakis, A. Gaitanis, et. al, “ Validation of a GATE model for the simulation of the Siemens PET/CT Biograph 6 scanner”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 571, 263-266, 2007.

A. Gaitanis, G. Kontaxakis, G. Spyrou, G. Panayiotakis & G. Tzanakos, “ Towards a Stopping Rule for the OSEM Algorithm for Iterative Image Reconstruction in PET”, ”, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium – Medical Imaging Conference 2008, Conference Record pp. 5138-5142, October 19-25, Dresden, Germany.

A. Gaitanis, G. Kontaxakis, G. Spyrou, G. Panayiotakis & G. Tzanakos, “Log-likelihood-based rule for image quality monitoring in the MLEM-based image reconstruction for PET”, ”, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium – Medical Imaging Conference 2009, Conference Record pp. 3262-3268, October 25-31, Orlando, USA

G. Kastis, A. Gaitanis, Y. Fernandez, G. Kontaxakis & A. Fokas, “Evaluation of a Spline Reconstruction Technique: Comparison with FBP, MLEM and OSEM”, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium – Medical Imaging Conference 2010, Conference Records pp. 3282-3287, October 30 – November 6, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

G. Kastis, A. Gaitanis & A. Fokas, “Evaluation of a Spline Reconstruction Technique for SPECT: Comparison with FBP and OSEM”, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium – Medical Imaging Conference 2011, Conference Records pp. 3950-3954, October 23 – 29, Valencia, Spain.

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