David Brasse

D. Brasse is a physicist with a strong expertise in medical imaging. He was born on May 10, 1972. He received his Master’ Degree and Ph.D. in Medical Physics from the University of Paris V, France in 1999. He acquired a solid knowledge in medical imaging and more precisely in PET and PET/CT systems where he worked during three years at the University of Pittsburgh optimizing both reconstruction algorithms with Paul Kinahan and PET/CT protocols with David Townsend. The development of a fully 3D image reconstruction algorithm for PET systems using flat detectors with large axial field of view and the continuous bed motion acquisition during PET/CT exam are two examples of research topics for this period. Since 2002, he is in charge of the development of innovative instrumentations at the Institut Plusridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (UMR 7178, CNRS/IN2P3-ULP). Between 2007 and 2016, he was the scientist in charge of the ImaBio group of the Institute. The development of a multimodality imaging platform for in vivo studies on small animals was one of its main projects. It consists in combining CT/SPECT and PET system on the same gantry including state-of-the-art instrumentation and signal processing to fully take advantage of multimodality approaches. Since 2012, he became research director at CNRS and scientific manager for four years of the Cyrcé project, a cyclotron infrastructure dedicated to produce radioisotopes and to perform preclinical protontherapy studies. In 2014 David became research officer dedicated to life science programs within IN2P3 for a two years period. In 2016 He took in charge the national research group on modelization and instrumentation for biomedical applications for a two years period. He obtains several national grants and he is involved in several councils.