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European Institute of Molecular Imaging 
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D-48149 Münster
Germany

Personal Data

• School studies at Pakistani school and college Tripoli-Libya
• MSc in Computer Science from University of Dortmund, Dortmund-Germany
• PhD in Computer Science from University of Münster, Münster-Germany

Honours

• Young Investigator Award 2011 Third prize for best scientific research abstract by the SNM (Society of Nuclear Medicine).
• Georg-von-Hevesy Prize 2009 for best scientific research paper by the DGN (German Society of Nuclear Medicine).
• MedMath Young Researchers Award 2008 by the Friends of the University of Münster, Germany.
• Young Molecular Cardiovascular Imaging Award 2006 by the North Rhine Westphalia Academy of Sciences, Germany.
• Scholarship for 'Innovative Medical Research', 2004 by the University Hospital Münster. (Scholarship number SC 520302)

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• Member European Insitute for Molecular Imaging, Münster, Germany, since 2007.
• Member SFB 656 MoBil, research project of the German Research Society (DFG), since 2005.

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• Reviews for Journals: Proceedings of the IEEE; IEEE Trans Med Imaging; IEEE Trans Nucl Sci; Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imgaging; BMC Medical Imaging.
• Session Chair in Conferences: IEEE NSS/MIC 2010.
• Reviews for Conferences: IEEE NSS/MIC 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012; MICCAI 2008; CAIP 2009, 2010, 2011; CIARP 2009.

Publications

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 Books and Book Chapters

1. Mohammad Dawood, X. Jiang, KP. Schäfers: Correction Techniques in Emission Tomography , CRC Press, 2012.

 Papers

1. Mohammad Dawood, C. Brune, F. Büther, X. Jiang, M. Burger, O. Schober, M. Schäfers, KP. Schäfers: A Continuity Equation Based Optical Flow Method for Cardiac Motion Correction in 3D PET Data, Proceedings of the MICCAI 2010 LNCS, 2010; 6326:88-97
2. F. Büther, I. Ernst, Mohammad Dawood, P. Kraxner, M. Schäfers, O. Schober, KP. Schäfers: Detection of respiratory tumour motion using intrinsic listmode-driven gating in positron emission tomography, Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 2010; 37(12):2315-2327.
3. Mohammad Dawood, F. Büther, L. Stegger, X. Jiang, O. Schober, M. Schäfers, KP. Schäfers: Optimal number of respiratory gates in positron emission tomography: A cardiac patient study, Med Phys, 2009; 36(5):1775-1784.
4. F. Büther, Mohammad Dawood, L. Stegger, F. Wübbeling, M. Schäfers, O. Schober, KP. Schäfers: List Mode-Driven Cardiac and Respiratory Gating in Positron Emission Tomography, J Nucl Med, 2009; 50(5):674-81.
5. Mohammad Dawood, F. Büther, X. Jiang, and KP. Schäfers: Motion Correction on 3D PET/CT Images Using Advanced Optical Flow Algorithms, IEEE Trans Med Imaging, 2008; 27(8):1164-75.
6. Mohammad Dawood, T. Kösters, M. Fieseler, F. Büther, X. Jiang, F. Wübbeling and KP. Schäfers: Motion correction in respiratory gated cardiac PET/CT using multi-scale optical flow, Proceedings of the MICCAI 2008, LNCS, 2008; 5242:155-162.
7. Mohammad Dawood, M. Fieseler, X. Jiang, and KP. Schäfers: A Multi-Resolution Optical Flow Based Approach to Respiratory Motion Correction in 3D PET/CT Images, Proceedings of the ICMB 2007, LNCS, 2008; 4901:314-322.
8. Mohammad Dawood, F. Büther, N. Lang, O. Schober, and KP. Schäfers: Respiratory Gating in Positron Emission Tomography: A Quantitative Comparision of Different Gating Schemes, Med Phys, 2007; 34(7):3067-3076.
9. F. Büther, L. Stegger, Mohammad Dawood, F. Range, M. Schäfers, R. Fischbach, T. Wichter, O. Schober, and KP. Schäfers: Effective Methods to Correct Contrast Agent-Induced Errors in PET Quantification in Cardiac PET/CT, J Nucl Med, 2007; 48(7):1060-1068.
10. Mohammad Dawood, N. Lang, X. Jiang, and KP. Schäfers: Lung Motion Correction on Respiratory Gated 3D PET/CT Images, IEEE Trans Med Imaging, 2006; 25(4):476-485.
11. Mohammad Dawood, F. Büther, N. Lang, X. Jiang, and KP. Schäfers: Transforming Static CT in Gated PET/CT Studies to Multiple Respiratory Phases, Proceedings of the ICPR, 2006; 1:1026-1029.
12. N. Lang, Mohammad Dawood, F. Büther, O. Schober, M. Schäfers, and K. Schäfers: Organ Movement Reduction in PET/CT Using Dual-Gated Listmode Acquisition, Z Med Phys, 2006; 16(1):93-101.
13. KP Schäfers, Mohammad Dawood, N. Lang, F. Büther, M. Schäfers, and O. Schober: Motion Correction in PET/CT, Nuklearmedizin, 2005; 1:46-50.
14. Mohammad Dawood, X. Jiang, and KP. Schäfers: Reliable Dual-Band Based Contour Detection: A Double Dynamic Programming Based Approach, Proceedings of the ICIAR 2004, LNCS, 2005; 3212:544-551.

Conference Abstracts

1. Mohammad Dawood, C. Brune, F. Büther, M. Burger, M. Schäfers, K. P. Schäfers: A Mass Conservation Based Optical Flow Method for Combined Partial Volume and Cardiac Motion Correction in 3D PET, JNM, Vol. 52, 2011, page A -.
2. Mohammad Dawood, C. Brune, F. Büther, O. Schober, K. P. Schäfers: A Mass Conservation Based Optical Flow Method for Cardiac Motion Correction in 3D PET Data, Nuklearmedizin, Vol. 50, 2011, page A 26-27.
3. I. Ernst, F. Buether, Mohammad Dawood, C. Moustakis, H. Elsayed, T. Boelling, K. Schafers, N. Willich: Can List-mode Based Target Delineation Solve Problems of Tumor Movements in Stereotactic Radiotherapy? Results after the First 18 Months, Int Journal Rad Onc Bio Phy, Vol. 78, 2010, page S796.
4. D. Tenbrinck, Mohammad Dawood, F. Gigengack, M. Fieseler, X. Jiang, K. Schäfers:Motion correction in positron emission tomography considering partial volume effects in optical flow estimation, Proceedings 2010 7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, pages 1233-6, 2010.
5. Mohammad Dawood, F. Büther, M. Schäfers, O. Schober and KP. Schäfers: Generating 4D CT in Respiratory Gated 3D PET/CT Studies, JNM, Vol. 51, Supplement No 2, page 516, 2010.
6. Mohammad Dawood, F. Büther, O. Schober, M. Schäfers, K. P. Schäfers: Generating 4D CT in Respiratory Gated 3D PET/CT Studies, Nuklearmedizin, Vol. 49, 2010, page A 8.
7. I. Ernst, F. Buther, Mohammad Dawood, P. Kraxner, C. Moustakis, T. Bolling, O. Schober, K. Schafers, N. Willich: ET/CT for movement detection in high precision radiotherapy, Strahlentherapie und Onkologie, Vol. 185, page: 35-36, 2009.
8. Mohammad Dawood, F. Büther, M. Schäfers, O. Schober and KP. Schäfers: How many gates? The effect of the number of gates on respiratory gated PET data, JNM, Vol. 50, Supplement No 2, page 293P, 2009.
9. Mohammad Dawood, F. Büther, O. Schober, M. Schäfers, K. P. Schäfers: Wieviele respiratorische Gates? Einfluss der Anzahl an Gates auf atemgetriggerte PET Aufnahmen, Nuklearmedizin, Vol. 48, 2009, page A 23.
10. Mohammad Dawood, O. Schober and KP. Schäfers: Multi-scale optical flow based respiratory motion correction in cardiac PET/CT, JNM, Vol. 49, Supplement No 1, page 387P, 2008.
11. Mohammad Dawood, F. Büther, N. Lang, X. Jiang, O. Schober, K. P. Schäfers: Vollständige nicht-rigide Korrektur der Respirations- und Herzbewegung in der Listmode PET/CT mit Hilfe optischer Flussverfahren, Nuklearmedizin, Vol. 47, 2008, page A 57-58.
12. Mohammad Dawood, F. Büther, X. Jiang, N. Lang, O. Schober and KP. Schäfers: Transforming Static CT in PET/CT to Multiple Respiratory Phases, JNM, Vol. 48, Supplement No 2, page 41P, 2007.
13. Mohammad Dawood, F Büther, N Lang, X Jiang, M Schäfers, O Schober and KP Schäfers: Respiratory Motion Correction in 3D PET/CT Using Optical Flow Methods, JNM, Vol. 47, Supplement No 1, page 186P, 2006.
14. Mohammad Dawood, F. Büther, N. Lang, O. Schober, X. Jiang, and KP. Schäfers: Motion Correction of 3D PET/CT Data Using Optical Flow Methods: A Comparision of Five Algorithms, Nuklearmedizin, Vol. 45, 2006, page A 49.
15. Mohammad Dawood, F. Büther, N. Lang, X. Jiang, and KP. Schäfers: Lung Motion Correction of Respiratory Gated 3D PET-CT Images, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Vol. 32, Supplement 1, page S95, 2005
16. Mohammad Dawood, X. Jiang, O. Schober, and KP. Schäfers: 3D Lung Contour Segmentation for Motion Detection on Respiratory Gated PET-CT Images, JNM, Vol. 46, Supplement No 2, page 160P, 2005

Oral Presentations

1. A mass conservation based optical flow method for combined partial volume and cardiac motion correction in 3D PET SNM 2011, San Antonio, USA 2011
2. A Continuity Equation Based Optical Flow Method for Cardiac Motion Correction in 3D PET Data DGN, Bregenz, Austria 2011
3. A Continuity Equation Based Optical Flow Method for Cardiac Motion Correction in 3D PET Data MICCAI, Beijing, China 2010
4. Generating 4D CT in respiratory gated 3D PET-CT Studies: A phantom study SNM, Salt Lake City, USA 2010
5. Generation of Multiple Respiratory Phases in PET/CT: A Phantom Study DGN, Leipzig, Germany 2010
6. Optical flow based estimation of multiple respiratory phases from a single CT for attenuation correction of PET Data: A phantom study IEEE MIC, Orlando, USA 2009
7. Wieviele respiratorische Gates? Einfluss der Anzahl an Gates auf atem-getriggerte PET Aufnahmen DGN 2009, Leipzig, Germany
8. Motion Correction on Dual ECG and Respiratory Gated 3D Cardiac PET/CT Data IEEE MIC 2008, Dresden, Germany
9. Vollständige nicht-rigide Korrektur der Respirations- und Herzbewegung in der Listmode PET/CT mit Hilfe optischer Flussverfahren DGN 2008, Leipzig, Germany
10. Motion Correction in 3D PET/CT MathMed Workshop, 2008, Münster, Germany
11. Transforming Static CT in PET/CT to Multiple Respiratory Phases SNM 2007, Washington, USA
12. Bewegungskorrektur in 3D PET/CT: Transformation statischer CTs in einzelne Atemphasen DGN 2007, Hannover, Germany
13. Respiratory Motion Correction in 3D PET/CT Using Optical Flow Methods Imaging Visions 2006, Düsseldorf, Germany
14. Transforming Static CT in Gated PET/CT Studies to Multiple Respiratory Phases ICPR 2006, Hong Kong, P R China
15. Respiratory Motion Correction in 3D PET/CT Using Optical Flow Methods SNM 2006, San Diego, USA
16. Motion Correction on 3D PET/CT Images DGN 2006, Berlin, Germany
17. Lung Motion Correction on Respiratory Gated 3D PET/CT Images. EANM 2005, Istanbul, Turkey
18. 3D Lung Contour Detection on Respiratory Gated 3D PET/CT Images. SNM 2005, Toronto, Canada
19. Reliable Dual-Band Based Contour Detection: A Double Dynamic Programming Approach. ICIAR 2004, Porto, Portugal

Poster Presentations

1. Mohammad Dawood, C. Brune, F. Büther, M. Schäfers, KP. Schäfers: A Continuity Equation Based Optical Flow Method for Cardiac Motion Correction in 3D PET Data, IEEE MIC, Knoxville, USA, 2010
2. Mohammad Dawood, F. Büther, O. Schober, M. Schäfers, KP. Schäfers: How many gates? The effect of the number of gates on respiratory gated PET data, SNM, Toronto, Canada, 2009
3. Mohammad Dawood, T. Kösters, M. Fieseler, F. Büther, X. Jiang and KP. Schäfers: Motion Correction on Dual ECG and Respiratory Gated 3D Cardiac PET/CT Data, WMIC, Nice, France, 2008
4. Mohammad Dawood, T. Kösters, M. Fieseler, F. Büther, X. Jiang, F. Wübbeling and KP. Schäfers: Motion Correction in Respiratory Gated Cardiac PET/CT Using Multiscale Optical Flow, MICCAI, New York, USA, 2008
5. Mohammad Dawood, F. Büther, O. Schober and KP. Schäfers: Multi-scale optical flow based respiratory motion correction in cardiac PET/CT, SNM, New Orleans, USA, 2008
6. Mohammad Dawood, F. Büther, N. Lang, X. Jiang and KP. Schäfers: Motion Correction of 3D PET/CT Data with Optical Flow Algorithms, IEEE MIC, San Diego, USA, 2006
7. F. Büther, Mohammad Dawood, N. Lang, O. Schober, X. Jiang and KP. Schäfers: Rekonstruktion atemgetriggerter Listmode-PET/CT-Daten mit Hilfe bewegungskorrigierter Schwächungsdaten, DGN, Berlin, Germany, 2006
8. N. Lang, F. Büther, Mohammad Dawood, M. Schäfers and KP. Schäfers: Simulated PET acquisition of a respiratory and cardiac moved NCAT-human torso phantom using GATE, DGN, Berlin, Germany, 2006
9. N. Lang, Mohammad Dawood, X. Jiang, C. Howe, T. Bruckbauer, O. Schober and KP. Schäfers: The Use of Optical Flow Methods and Dual-Gated List-Mode PET-CT for Motion Correction, IEEE MIC, Puerto Rico, 2005
10. KP. Schäfers, Mohammad Dawood, M. Kriens, T. Bruckbauer, C. Howe, and M. Schäfers: Development of a Moving Lung Phantom for Evaluation of Motion Effects in Combined PET/CT Scanners, IEEE MIC, Rome, Italy, 2004

Media Presence

• Westfälische Nachrichten, 08.05.2009
• RTL Nachtjournal, xx.01.2008
• Westfälische Nachrichten, 13.02.2008

Areas of Research

• Biometrics
• Image Processing
• Medical Imaging
• Gating Algorithms
• Motion Correction
• Optical Flow

Teaching

• Medical Image Analysis 2012
• Medical Image Analysis 2011
• Medical Image Analysis 2010