Kenneth Kip Matthews

Biography

Kenneth "Kip" Matthews received a B.A. degree (majoring in Chemistry and Physics) from Austin College (Sherman, TX) in 1990. In 1997,he received a Ph.D. in Medical Physics from The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL). From early 1997 through July 2001, he worked as clinical and research physicist at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. He received my clinical certification in medical nuclear physics from the American Board of Radiology in June 2001. He joined the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at LSU in August 2001. His role is to provide medical imaging expertise, teaching, and research to LSU Medical Physics & Health Physics Program.

Research Interest

My general field of interest is Medical Physics. In particular, I am interested in the physics of medical imaging -- the application of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation to visualize in vivoanatomy and physiology. Secondary interests include the application of imaging techniques to basic research in other fields (e.g., biology, veterinary science, engineering, etc). My research principally deals with detector systems for radioisotope imaging - - that is, using the gamma-ray emissions of internally-distributed radiopharmaceuticals to visualize in vivo physiology, pathophysiology and metabolic processes. Because of our program's extensive involvement with radiation therapy physics, I'm also involved with radioisotope imaging techniques applied to radiation therapy.