Irene Polycarpou
Vice Chairperson, Associate Professor, Medical Physics
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School of Sciences
Department of Health Sciences
Qualification | Year | Awarding Institution | Department | Thesis title (optional entry) |
Ph.D. in Imaging Sciences | 2010-2014 | King’s College London | Medical Physics | The impact of respiratory motion correction methods on tumour detection and quantification in (PET) |
MSc in Medical Engineering and Physics | 2008-2009 | King’s College London | Medical Engineering and Physics | Evaluation of Scatter Correction Approaches in PET |
BSc in Physics | 2004-2008 | University of Cyprus | Physics | Attenuation correction of SPECT images using CT or Gd-156 sources. |
Period of employment | Employer | Location | Position | |
From | To | |||
2014 | 2018 | European University Cyprus | Cyprus | Lecturer and Coordinator of the program Radiodiagnostics/Radiotherapy |
2017 | 2018 | German Oncology Centre | Cyprus | Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Nuclear Medicine Medical Physicist |
2013 | 2014 | St Thomas’ Hospital, King’s College London | London, UK | Postdoctoral Researcher |
Year | Title | Other authors | Journal and Publisher / Conference | Vol. | Pages |
2017 | Synthesis of Realistic Simultaneous Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data | Polycarpou I, Soultanidis G and Tsoumpas C | IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, | 35(3) | pp. 703-711 |
2017 | Impact of respiratory motion correction on SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging using a mechanically moving phantom assembly with variable cardiac defects | Polycarpou I, Chrysanthou I, Demetriadou O, Parpottas Y, Panagidis C, Marsden P K and Livieratos L | Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, | 24(4) | pp. 1216 – 1225 |
2015 | Quantitative evaluation of PET respiratory motion correction using real time PET/MR simulated data | Polycarpou I, Tsoumpas C, King A and Marsden P K | IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, | 62(6) | pp. 3110 – 3116 |
2015 | Respiratory motion correction of PET using MR-constrained PET-PET registration | Balfour D, Marsden P K, Polycarpou I,, Kolbitsch C and King A P | BioMedical Engineering OnLine, | 14(85) | |
2015 | Appropriately regularized OSEM can improve the reconstructed PET images of data with low count statistic | Karaoglanis K, Polycarpou I,, Efthimiou N and Tsoumpas C | Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine, | 18(2) | pp. 140–145 |
2013 | Impact of respiratory motion correction and spatial resolution on lesion detection in PET: A simulation study based on real MR dynamic data | Polycarpou I, Tsoumpas C, King A and Marsden P K | Physics in Medicine and Biology, | 59(3) | pp. 697–713 |
2013 | A 5D Computational Phantom for Pharmacokinetic Simulation Studies in Dynamic Emission Tomography | Kotasidis A, Tsoumpas C, Polycarpou I and Zaidi H. | Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, | 38(8) | pp. 764–773 |
2011 | The effect of regularisation in motion compensated PET image reconstruction: A realistic numerical 4D simulation study | Tsoumpas C, Polycarpou I, Thielemans K, Green Buerger K, King A, Schaeffter T and Marsden P K | Physics in Medicine and Biology, | 58(6) | pp. 1759–1773 |
2012 | Analysis and comparison of two methods for motion correction in PET imaging | Polycarpou I, Tsoumpas C and Marsden P K | Medical Physics, | 39(10) | pp. 6474–6483 |
2011 | Comparative evaluation of scatter correction in 3D PET using different scatter-level approximations | Polycarpou I, Thielemans K, Manjeshwar R, Aguiar P, Marsden P K and Tsoumpas C | Annals of Nuclear Medicine, | 25(9) | pp. 643–649 |
Date | Title | Funded by | Project Role* | |||||
1 | 2018-2022 | Optimizing the diagnostic value of myocardial perfusion imaging under the influence of liver activity | Biomedical Research Foundation, Cyprus Restart 2016-2020, Επιστήμες Ζωής, Πρόγραμμα Νησίδες Αριστείας ΕXCELLENCE/1216/0085 | Partner leader / Researcher | ||||
2 | 2013-2014 | Optimizing the diagnostic value of SPECT myocardial perfusion images under the influence of respiratory motion | Biomedical Research Foundation, Cyprus ΥΓEIA/∆ΥΓEIA/0311(BIE)/27 | Partner leader / Researcher | ||||
2013-2014 | PET-MR motion correction | Sublima, FP7 EU project (no. 241711), | Researcher | |||||
2012 | Optimizing Diagnostic Value in SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging | Biomedical Research Foundation, Cyprus ΥΓEIA/∆ΥΓEIA/0308/11 | Researcher | |||||
2017 | Magnetic Resonance Imaging Biomarkers for Chronic Kidney Disease | COST Action CA16103 | Research Team Member |
Period | Organization | Title of Position or Service | Key Activities |
6/2/2015 to present | Society of Medical Physicists Cyprus (ΣΦΙΚ) | Vice President | Stands‐in for the President, in all duties, when the President is unavailable (i.e. Chairs the AGM’s, Council and Executive Board Meetings). |
10/12/2016 to present | Cyprus Association of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (CAMPBE) | Vice President | Stands‐in for the President, in all duties, when the President is unavailable (i.e. Chairs the AGM’s, Council and Executive Board Meetings). |
1/05/2018 to present | European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (EFOMP) | Council delegate for Cyprus | Represent Cyprus in the EFOMP. In contact with EFOMP for the newest updates on medical physics aspects. Right to vote in elections that take decisions for subjects related to the profession of medical physics in the European Union. Organization of trainings and conferences under the auspices of EFOMP. |
20/12/2014 to 10/12/2016 | Cyprus Association of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (CAMPBE) | Treasurer | Keeps the Accounts of the Association and prepares its budget following the directives of Council and the President. Collects all fees and dues owed to the Association, issues receipts and makes relevant bank deposits. Presents Accounts for audit to any Auditors that Council may decide to appoint. |