Alok Shankar Pookotte Alanchery, PhD
Assistant Professor
Radiology
Academic contact
Academic information
- Department: Radiology
Research interests
- Radiopharmaceutical Therapy and Dosimetry
- Nuclear Medicine and PET Imaging
- Radiation Dose and Protocol Optimization in Radiography
- Fluoroscopy and CT
About
Biography
I am a clinical assistant professor of Radiology and a diagnostic medical physicist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. My clinical work supports the safe and effective use of medical imaging across CT, fluoroscopy, radiography, mammography, ultrasound, and nuclear medicine, including equipment performance evaluations, protocol optimization, and dose monitoring. I also serve as faculty in the Imaging Physics Residency Program and the graduate medical physics program.
My research has progressed from imaging detector physics — high spatio-temporal resolution X-ray detectors, photon-counting detectors, and flat-panel detector design — to radiation dose and protocol optimization in CT and fluoroscopy, and most recently to quantitative SPECT (qSPECT) for radiopharmaceutical therapy dosimetry. My current work focuses on developing and optimizing a clinical qSPECT dosimetry workflow and optimization of image quality for newer radiophamaceuticals in PET Imaging.
Credentials
Education
- Residency - Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine Physics
- University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- PhD - Medical Physics
- University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, United States
- MS - Medical Physics
- University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, United States
- MS - Physics
- Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
- MSc - Physics
- University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- BSc - Physics
- University of Calicut, Calicut, India
Research
Research interests
- Radiopharmaceutical Therapy and Dosimetry
- Nuclear Medicine and PET Imaging
- Radiation Dose and Protocol Optimization in Radiography
- Fluoroscopy and CT
Credentials
- Board Certifications
- DABR (DMP, NMP)
- DABSNM (NMP & I)