DR MUNIR AHMAD

Research Interests
Ø  Medical Diagnostic and Radiotherapy Imaging
Ø  Quality Assurance & Control in Nuclear Medicine, PET/CT and Radiotherapy
Ø  Tomographic Image reconstruction and image processing with analysis
Ø  Nanomaterials for diagnosis and treatment of cancer
Ø Electrical impedance

tomography (EIT)
Ø Convolution Neural

Networks (CNN)
Ø  Radiation Biology and

Physics
Ø  MRI, fMRI and Neuromodulation

Stimulation
Qualifications
2008–09 Post-doctorate Physicist

Maltron International, Rayleigh, UK
2004–08 PhD Student Medical Physics

University College London, London, UK
1994-98 Diploma Homeo. Med.

Islamabad Homeo. Colg, Isbd, Pakistan
1991–93 M. Sc. Nucl. Engineering

Quaid-e-Azam Univ., Isbd., Pakistan
1988–90 M. Sc. Physics (Electronics)

Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan
1985–87 B. Sc. Physics & Mathematics

Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan
Work Experience

2018-Present Deputy Chief Scientist Medical Physics Dept., INMOL Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan
2005–18   Principal Scientist

Medical Physics Dept., INMOL Hopsital , Lahore, Pakistan
2008–09   Postdoc Physicist

Maltron International, Rayleigh, UK
2003–08 PhD Student  University College London (UCL), London, UK
2002–03 PhD Scholar

University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
1993–02 Senior Scientist

Medical Physics Department, INMOL, Lahore, Pakistan
 

2014-Present
Associate Professor (Adj.)
Physics Department, University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
2009-2014
Associate Professor (Visiting)
Center for High Energy Physics, Univ. of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
·          Courses Taught: Medical Imaging, Radiotherapy Treatment Planning, Radiation Biology and Physics, Radiation Protection, Radiation Interactions with matter and Digital Electronics etc.

·          Member Board of studies of two universities, four courses designed for medical physics and digital electronics and prepared an implementation plan for the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Qarshi University Lahore.

·          Provided consultation to 2 local firms for their PET civil analysis, shielding design, licensing and radiation protection and involved in their regular operational procedures.

PhD Students: Completed:
1)        Muhammed Nadeem (2011-14), University of Technology Malaysia, on the title of “Use of Iron oxide nanoparticles as safe drug delivery agent for chemotherapy patients”.

Continued:
2)        Mamoona Mumtaz (2016-19), University of Lahore, “Computer Aided Diagnosis of Herniated Lumbar Spine Disk using CNNs”.

M. Phil (Medical) Physics Students:
·          Various MPhil students worked under my supervision on the topics of image reconstruction, segmentation and registration, PET/SPECT Simulation studies in SimSET and SIMIND, radiation biology and physics, radiation protection and radiography.

PhD Thesis and Monograph:
·          Munir Ahmad, “Non-uniform resolution and partial volume recovery in tomographic image reconstruction methods”, PhD Thesis, UCL Discovery and Medical Physics, May 2014.

·          Munir Ahmad and Andrew Todd-Pokropek, “Tomographic Image Reconstruction and Quantification in PET/SPECT”, VDM- Verlag Publications, Germany, Dec. 2009.

Selected Journal Papers:
·          Munir Ahmad, H M Tanveer, et al., “A penalized-likelihood image reconstruction algorithm for positron emission tomography exploiting root image size”, International Journal of  Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), 9(4), April 2018.

·          Andleeb Masood, Munir Ahmad, et al., “Thirty years cancer incidence data for Lahore, Pakistan: Trends and Patterns 1984-2014”, Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 19(3):709-717, 2018.

·          Munir Ahmad, Tasawar Shehzad, et al., “Local and non- local regularization techniques in emission (PET/SPECT) tomographic image reconstruction methods”, Journal of Digital Imaging, Jan 2016 (IF-1.19).

·          Khalid Rashid, Muhammad Zakaria Butt, Munir Ahmad, et al., “Comparison of Doxorubicin anticancer drug loading on different metal oxide nanoparticles”, Medicine, 49(11), 1-6, Mar 2015 (IF-5.72).

·          Khalid Masood, Munir Ahmad, et al., “Assessment of Occupational Exposure Among Pakistani Medical Staff During 2007–2011”, Australian Physical and Engineeirng Sciences in Medicin, 35 (3), 297-300, 2012.

Conference Proceedings:
·       Memoona Mumtaz and Munir Ahmad, “The Detection of Abnormalities in Lumber Spine MRI Images with Computer Aided Diagnostic Systems” International Conference on Recent Advances in Medical and Health Sciences (ICRAMHS), DEIRA, Dubai, UAE, 14-15 Nov. 2018.

·       Munir Ahmad, Andrew Todd-Pokropek and H. Bergmann “Optimizing tomographic reconstruction for nuclear medicine: strategies and limitations”, WFNMB 2014, Cancun, Mexico, 28-30 Aug 2014.

·       Munir Ahmad and Andrew Todd-Pokropek, “Evaluation of Resolution Properties of Median Priors in List-Mode Reconstruction Methods for PET”, IEEE NSS/MIC, 2009.

·       Munir Ahmad and Andrew Todd-Pokropek, “Non-uniform resolution compensation in tomographic image reconstruction methods using median based priors”, IEEE NSS/MIC, Vol. 6, Issue, Oct. 26-Nov. 3, Page(s):4447 – 4451, 2007.

·       Munir Ahmad and Andrew Todd-Pokropek,  “Partial Volume Correction using Median Priors in Penalized- Likelihood Image Reconstruction Methods”, IEEE NSS/MIC, Vol. 4, Issue Oct. 29 -Nov. 1, Page(s):2099 – 2102, 2006.

Ø Transcranial Direct current Brain Stimulation

Ø Neurotransmitter studies  on  SPECT for Gliomas.

Ø Radiation biology and physics for small brain and lungs tumor studies.

Ø Electrical Impedance based Lungs Ventilation          scanner              through University of Hertfordshire

Ø PhD Scholarship (2004-2008) by Higher Education Commission (HEC), Government of Pakistan

Ø Installation, commissioning and acceptance testing of Cyclotron & PET/CT, Gamma Cameras, LINAC, Co-60 machines.

Ø PET/SPECT image reconstruction and processing.

Ø Design of Matlab front end software for Lung Ventilation Scanner based on Electrical Impedance Tomography.

Ø Distance Assisted Training (DAT) Course for Nuclear Medicine technologists by IAEA through University of Sydney.

Ø Best 100 paper award by Philips for a paper in IEEE NSS Conference 2008.

Ø Certificate as member of the organizing committee in the International Nuclear Medicine Conference, Lahore on April 03- 04, 2002.

Ø M. Sc Engineering Fellowship (1991-93), Government of Pakistan.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
COMPUTER SKILLS
PERSONAL SKILLS
Ø Operation of GE Infinia SPECT/CT gamma Camera since Feb 2019.

Ø COMECER hot cell operation and QC of PET/CT for the synthesis of 18FDG 2010.

Ø QC of Nuclear Medicine SPECT Gamma Cameras and Hot Lab Instruments for operation and patient handling for Tomographic and planar studies in Nuclear Medicine and MRI acquisition and experience of sequence design in MRiLab.

Ø Radiation Dosimetry of Co-60 and LINAC patient irradiation Cancer patient simulation and treatment planning.

Ø Radiation protection of premises and work force and radioactive waste management.

Ø Chemical Synthesis of various inorganic nanomaterials and bio-distribution studies and analysis.
Ø General computer skills and strong programming experience in Matlab and C++, certified in JAVA and HTML.

Ø Development of a fully independent windows executable front end application in Matlab for an EIT scanner.

Ø Full software life cycle experience from requirement analysis to validation.

Ø Medical image manipulation in various formats including DICOM editors.

Ø Experience of various image processing techniques such as segmentation and face recognition using PCA and ASM.

Ø Algorithm implementation experience using C++ or Matlab and Visual Basic.

Ø Machine learning experience in deep learning and CNN with Anaconda, python, pyTorch, matplotlib, numpy, python & tensor flow.
Ø Communication  skills  in  reading writing and presentation.

Ø Hardworking and team player.

Ø Analytical.

Ø Meeting deadlines.

Ø Journal article reviewer.

Ø Memberships

Ø VCRT, UK

Ø Pak Soc Nucl. Med., PAK

Ø Pak. Nucl. Soc., PAK

Ø AAPM, USA

Ø IEEE, 2006

Ø ISO2009-2015   internal   auditing and QMS experience.
Training/Workshops/Seminars
Ø  Attended various training courses, workshops and seminars on various topics such as Radiation Physics, Protection and Safety (2018, 2015, 2016),

Ø  Gamma Camera Application and Operation (2009-10), Co-60 and LINAC Teletherapy machine operations (2012 and 2002),

Ø  Quality Policy Management, Radioactive waste management, Nanomaterials fabrication and applications (2011),

Ø  Current Good Manufacturing Practices for PET and PETtrace operation and COMECER Hot cell operations (2010),

Ø  Fire Safety and Handling (2008).

Ø  Participated as part of team member to organize international conferences (2002) and Workshops (2012), etc.