Peter Esser, PhD

  • Professor Emeritus of Clinical Radiology (Physics) (in Environmental Health Sciences) and Special Lecturer in the Department of Radiology and in the Department of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics
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Overview

Dr. Peter D. Esser is a past president of the American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine and a member of the Nuclear Accreditation Committee of the American College of Radiology. Dr. Esser is a board certified medical physicist with extensive experience in Nuclear Medicine and PET. With research interests that emphasize image enhancement techniques, he has edited four books and coauthored numerous papers.

Academic Appointments

  • Professor Emeritus of Clinical Radiology (Physics) (in Environmental Health Sciences) and Special Lecturer in the Department of Radiology and in the Department of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics

Administrative Titles

  • Chief Physicist, Columbia Kreitchman PET Center

Gender

  • Male

Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

  • BA, 1961 Brown University
  • MS, 1964 Adelphi University
  • PhD, 1971 Adelphi University (with Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Committees, Societies, Councils

American Association of Physicists in Medicine

American College of Nuclear Medicine

American College of Radiology

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Institute for Clinical PET

Society of Nuclear Medicine

Research

Selected Publications

Kenneth A. Miles , Helen Young, Sandra L. Chica, Peter D. Esser Quantitative Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography: The Need For System Calibration European Radiology 2005

Henkin RE, et al Nuclear Medicine, 2nd edition Mosby in Press

Elsa Angelini, Y. Jin, P. Esser, R. Van Heertum, Andrew Laine Fusion of Brushlet And Wavelet Denoising Methods For Nuclear Images 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2004

J. Kalifa, AF Laine, P.D. Esser Regularization in Tomographic Reconstruction Using Thresholding Estimators IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 22(3) 351-359 2003