Todd Soesbe

Biography

Dr. Todd C. Soesbe joined the faculty at the Department of Radiology in July of 2015. He received his Bachelors degree in Physics from Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts) in 1993. While at Clark, Dr. Soesbe performed several years of undergraduate research with a joint Physics and Chemistry research group lead by Dr. Christopher Landee and Dr. Mark Turnbull. This group designed and synthesized complexes containing transition metals chelated to organic ligands in order to investigate new forms of molecular magnetism, specifically bi-metallic ferrimagnetic materials. After Clark University, Dr. Soesbe entered Physics graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin in 1997 where he received his Masters in Applied Physics degree in 2000. While at UT Austin, Dr. Soesbe worked with Dr. Karol Lang of the High Energy Physics department on the MINOS project (Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search) taking place at Fermilab National Laboratory (Batavia, Illinois). While performing neutrino detector research at UT Austin, Dr. Soesbe became very interested in applying novel high energy physics detector technologies to medical imaging, specifically high-pressure xenon proportional counters for large-volume gamma ray detection in SPECT applications.

Research Interest

Clinical Spectral CT methods and applications In vivo imaging of CEST and PARACEST MR contrast agents In vivo imaging of liposomal agents using MR MR probe design and construction Preclinical SPECT detector design and construction