Nancy L. Ford
Assistant Professor & Director, Centre for High-Th
Dentistry
The University of British Columbia
Canada
Biography
Dr. Ford completed her BSc in Chemical Physics in 1997 (University of Waterloo) and PhD in Medical Biophysics in 2005 (University of Western Ontario). Her research experience includes working as a Research Assistant in a Digital Mammography research group at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto ON, and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Imaging Research Labs at the Robarts Research Institute in London ON. From 2006 to 2011, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Ryerson University. Her research experience in the technical aspects of clinical and pre-clinical medical imaging (primarily x-ray) will enable multidisciplinary studies at the Centre for High-Throughput Phenogenomics. Specialization: Micro-computed tomography; x-ray imaging; physiological gating; image quality metrics; pre-clinical imaging; dental radiology; dental CBCT; synchrotron imaging
Research Interest
Micro-computed tomography, x-ray imaging, physiological gating, small animal imaging, image quality, CBCT
