Education & Concurrent Positions

• B.S. University of California, Riverside, 1971
• Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 1976
• Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1976-1978
• Assistant Chemist, BNL, 1979-1981
• Associate Chemist, BNL, 1981
• Research Chemist, The Cyclotron Corporation, Berkeley, CA, 1981-1982
• Department Head, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1983-1985
• Chemist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1985-2003
• Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Engineering Department, SUNY, Stony Brook,2000-present
• Chemist with tenure, Chemistry and Medical Departments, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2003-present
• Senior Chemist with tenure, Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory 2007-present

Selected Publications

• Woody C., Schlyer D., Vaska P., Tomasi D., Solis-Najera S., Rooney W., Pratte J.F., Junnarkar S., Stoll S., Master Z., Purschke M., Park S.J., Southekal S., Kriplani A., Krishnamoorthy S., Maramraju S., O'Connor P. and Radeka V.
  Preliminary studies of a simultaneous PET/MRI scanner based on the RatCAP small animal tomograph.
  Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 571(1-2):102-105 (2007).
• Woody C., Vaska P. Schlyer D., Pratte J.F., Junnarkar S., Park S.J., Stoll S., Purschke M., Southekal S., Kriplani A., Krishnamoorthy S., Maramraju S., Lee D., Schiffer W., Dewey S., Neill J., Kandasamy A., O'Connor P., Radeka V., Fontaine R. and Lecomte R.
  Initial studies using the RatCAP conscious animal PET tomograph.
  Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 571(1-2):14-17 (2007).
• Shokouhi S., Vaska P., Schlyer D.J., Stoll S.P., Villanueva A. Jr., Kriplani A. and Woody C.L.
  System performance Simulations of the RatCAP awake rat brain scanner.
  IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 52 Issue 5 Part 1 :1305-1310 (2005).
• Woody C.L., Stoll S.P., Schlyer D.J., Shokouhi S., Gerasimov M.
  An Intracerebral Beta Microprobe for Studying Radiotracer Kinetics in Freely Moving Animals.
  IEEE Conference Proceedings, (2000).
• Firouzbakht M.L., Schlyer D.J., Ferrieri R.A., Wolf A.P. and Fowler J.S.
  Mechanism of Nitrogen-13 Labeled Ammonia Formation in a Cryogenic Water Target.
  Nuclear Medicine and Biology, 26(4):437-441 (1999).  PubMed
• Firouzbakht M.L. , Schlyer D.J., Gatley S.J. and Wolf A.P.
  A Cryogenic Solid Target for the Production of [ 18 F]Fluoride from Enriched [ 18 O]Carbon Dioxide.
  Int. J. Appl. Radiat. Isot., 44:1081-1084 (1993).

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