Simon R. Cherry

32.3k total citations · 9 hit papers
431 papers, 24.1k citations indexed

About

Simon R. Cherry is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Radiation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon R. Cherry has authored 431 papers receiving a total of 24.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 354 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 214 papers in Radiation and 96 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Simon R. Cherry's work include Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (320 papers), Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies (183 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (94 papers). Simon R. Cherry is often cited by papers focused on Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (320 papers), Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies (183 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (94 papers). Simon R. Cherry collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Simon R. Cherry's co-authors include Roger P. Woods, John C. Mazziotta, Jinyi Qi, Stefan Siegel, Richard M. Leahy, Robert W. Silverman, Yiping Shao, Ramsey D. Badawi, Arion F. Chatziioannou and Michael E. Phelps and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Circulation and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Simon R. Cherry

415 papers receiving 23.5k citations

Hit Papers

Rapid Automated Algorithm... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 1998 2008 1993 1998 500 1000 1.5k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Rapid Automated Algorithm for Aligning and Reslicing PET Images
    1992 1.6k citations Simon R. Cherry et al. profile →
  2. Automated Image Registration: I. General Methods and Intrasubject, Intramodality Validation
    1998 1.5k citations Simon R. Cherry et al. profile →
  3. Simultaneous PET-MRI: a new approach for functional and morphological imaging
    2008 729 citations Martin S. Judenhofer, Simon R. Cherry et al. profile →
  4. Automated image registration
    1993 647 citations Simon R. Cherry et al. profile →
  5. High-resolution 3D Bayesian image reconstruction using the microPET small-animal scanner
    1998 520 citations Jinyi Qi, Richard M. Leahy et al. Physics in Medicine and Biology profile →
  6. MicroPET: a high resolution PET scanner for imaging small animals
    1997 485 citations Simon R. Cherry, Yiping Shao et al. profile →
  7. Total-Body PET: Maximizing Sensitivity to Create New Opportunities for Clinical Research and Patient Care
    2017 475 citations Simon R. Cherry, Jinyi Qi et al. Journal of Nuclear Medicine profile →
  8. First Human Imaging Studies with the EXPLORER Total-Body PET Scanner*
    2019 459 citations Ramsey D. Badawi, Benjamin A. Spencer et al. Journal of Nuclear Medicine profile →
  9. Performance Evaluation of the uEXPLORER Total-Body PET/CT Scanner Based on NEMA NU 2-2018 with Additional Tests to Characterize PET Scanners with a Long Axial Field of View
    2020 249 citations Benjamin A. Spencer, Negar Omidvari et al. Journal of Nuclear Medicine profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Simon R. Cherry 16.0k 7.6k 5.2k 2.9k 2.7k 431 24.1k
Michael E. Phelps 12.4k 0.8× 1.9k 0.2× 2.5k 0.5× 841 0.3× 4.5k 1.7× 313 26.1k
Markus Schwaiger 35.1k 2.2× 2.5k 0.3× 4.9k 0.9× 928 0.3× 6.3k 2.3× 1.1k 60.9k
Ferenc A. Jólesz 21.0k 1.3× 1.0k 0.1× 14.1k 2.7× 1.2k 0.4× 2.1k 0.8× 459 44.8k
R. Mark Henkelman 11.1k 0.7× 649 0.1× 3.4k 0.6× 1.1k 0.4× 7.9k 2.9× 321 27.8k
Terry Jones 9.2k 0.6× 1.7k 0.2× 1.4k 0.3× 697 0.2× 1.9k 0.7× 258 18.8k
G. Allan Johnson 9.9k 0.6× 533 0.1× 2.5k 0.5× 3.2k 1.1× 2.2k 0.8× 469 19.3k
Bernd J. Pichler 6.3k 0.4× 2.0k 0.3× 1.7k 0.3× 975 0.3× 1.8k 0.7× 281 11.2k
Adriaan A. Lammertsma 17.2k 1.1× 1.2k 0.2× 2.0k 0.4× 512 0.2× 3.7k 1.4× 692 32.8k
Tsutomu Araki 4.8k 0.3× 1.8k 0.2× 1.8k 0.3× 1.7k 0.6× 1.8k 0.7× 846 20.0k
Christian Michel 5.8k 0.4× 2.2k 0.3× 1.6k 0.3× 576 0.2× 1.5k 0.6× 275 9.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Siqi, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Lorenzo Nardo, et al.. (2025). Total-Body Parametric Imaging Using Relative Patlak Plot. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 66(4). 654–661. 1 indexed citations
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Mingels, Clemens, Benjamin A. Spencer, Negar Omidvari, et al.. (2024). Dose Reduction in Pediatric Oncology Patients with Delayed Total-Body [18F]FDG PET/CT. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 65(7). 1101–1106. 15 indexed citations
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Raychaudhuri, S. P., Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Smriti K. Raychaudhuri, et al.. (2024). Total-body positron emission tomography: a tool for systemic, quantitative evaluation of the inflammatory burden of psoriatic arthritis. Lara D. Veeken. 64(6). 3483–3491. 2 indexed citations
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Gundacker, S., G. Borghi, Simon R. Cherry, et al.. (2023). On timing-optimized SiPMs for Cherenkov detection to boost low cost time-of-flight PET. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 68(16). 165016–165016. 25 indexed citations
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Cherry, Simon R., et al.. (2023). Colored reflectors to improve coincidence timing resolution of BGO-based time-of-flight PET detectors. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 68(18). 185008–185008. 5 indexed citations
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Mayet, Ahmed S., Soroush Ghandiparsi, Julien Bec, et al.. (2022). Engineering the gain and bandwidth in avalanche photodetectors. Optics Express. 30(10). 16873–16873. 5 indexed citations
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Frost, Georgia, Valerie A. Longo, Thomas Li, et al.. (2020). Hybrid PET/MRI enables high-spatial resolution, quantitative imaging of amyloid plaques in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 10379–10379. 23 indexed citations
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Ariño‐Estrada, Gerard, Hadong Kim, Junwei Du, et al.. (2020). Energy and electron drift time measurements in a pixel CCI TlBr detector with 1.3 MeV prompt-gammas. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 66(4). 44001–44001. 11 indexed citations
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Ariño‐Estrada, Gerard, Emilie Roncali, Junwei Du, et al.. (2020). Study of Čerenkov Light Emission in the Semiconductors TlBr and TlCl for TOF-PET. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. 5(5). 630–637. 33 indexed citations
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Du, Junwei, Gerard Ariño‐Estrada, Xiaowei Bai, & Simon R. Cherry. (2020). Performance comparison of dual-ended readout depth-encoding PET detectors based on BGO and LYSO crystals. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 65(23). 235030–235030. 29 indexed citations
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Wang, Qian, et al.. (2020). The reduction of 176 Lu background in Lu-based PET scanners using optimized classification. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 65(17). 175016–175016. 1 indexed citations
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Du, Junwei, et al.. (2019). Design and evaluation of gapless curved scintillator arrays for simultaneous high-resolution and high-sensitivity brain PET. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 64(23). 235004–235004. 23 indexed citations
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Kwon, Sun Il, Emilie Roncali, A. Gola, et al.. (2019). Dual-ended readout of bismuth germanate to improve timing resolution in time-of-flight PET. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 64(10). 105007–105007. 35 indexed citations
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Ariño‐Estrada, Gerard, Gregory S. Mitchell, Hadong Kim, et al.. (2019). First Cerenkov charge-induction (CCI) TlBr detector for TOF-PET and proton range verification. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 64(17). 175001–175001. 25 indexed citations
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Ariño‐Estrada, Gerard, Junwei Du, Hadong Kim, et al.. (2018). Development of TlBr detectors for PET imaging. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 63(13). 13NT04–13NT04. 13 indexed citations
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Goertzen, Andrew L., Freek J. Beekman, & Simon R. Cherry. (2002). Effect of phantom voxelization in CT simulations. Medical Physics. 29(4). 492–498. 25 indexed citations
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Chatziioannou, Arion F., Jinyi Qi, Alasdair Hotston Moore, et al.. (2000). Comparison of 3D Maximum A Posteriori and Filtered Backprojection algorithms for high \nresolution animal imaging in microPET. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 99 indexed citations
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Farahani, Keyvan, R. Slates, Yiping Shao, Robert H. Silverman, & Simon R. Cherry. (1999). Contemporaneous positron emission tomography and MR imaging at 1.5 T. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 9(3). 497–500. 1 indexed citations
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Farahani, Keyvan, R. Slates, Yiping Shao, Robert W. Silverman, & Simon R. Cherry. (1999). Contemporaneous positron emission tomography and MR imaging at 1.5 T. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 9(3). 497–500. 21 indexed citations

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