Education:

University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada
Bachelor of Science, Biology
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

Columbia University, New York, NY
Master of Science, Electrical Engineering

Duke University, Durham, NC
Doctor of Philosophy, Biomedical Engineering, 2006

Research Focus: Design, development, and characterization of a novel X-ray computed tomography system for dedicated breast imaging

Refereed Publications:

RL McKinley, MP Tornai, E Samei, ML Bradshaw, “Development of an optimal X-ray beam for dual-mode emission and transmission mammotomography,” Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 527:102-109, 2003.

RL McKinley, MP Tornai, E Samei, ML Bradshaw, “Simulation study of a quasi-monochromatic beam for X-ray computed mammotomography,” Med. Phys., 31(4):800-813, 2004.

CN Brzyzmialkiewicz, MP Tornai, RL McKinley, JE Bowsher, “Evaluation of Fully 3D Emission Mammotomography with a Compact Cadmium Zinc Telluride Detector,” Trans. Med. Imag. 24(7): 868-877, 2005.

RL McKinley, MP Tornai, E Samei, ML Bradshaw, “Initial study of quasi-monochromatic beam performance for X-ray computed mammotomography,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.  52(5): 1243-1250, 2005.

RL McKinley, MP Tornai, CN Brzymialkiewicz, E Samei, JE Bowsher, “Analysis of a novel offset cone-beam computed mammotomography imaging system for attenuation correction of SPECT in a proposed dual modality dedicated breast mammotomography system”, Physica Medica (In Press), 2005.