Assistant Clinical Professor of Radiology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Physics
Chief, Radiology Physics
Email: CCagnon@mednet.ucla.edu
Professional Training & Experience
To Date
Assistant Clinical Professor of Radiology Assistant Professor of Biomedical Physics Chief, Radiology Physics David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles CA ABR Board Certification: Diagnostic Imaging Physics NLST / ACRIN Physics Committee: National Lung Screening Trial / American College of Radiology Imaging Network Radiation Safety Committee: University of California, Los Angeles CA Board Member: Heart Foundation Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles CA
2005
President, Southern California Chapter American Association Physicists in Medicine
2002-2004
Radiologic Technology Certification Committee California Dept. of Health Services, Radiologic Health Branch
2002
Doctor of Philosophy: Biomedical Physics David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles CA
1996
Master of Science: Biomedical Physics UCLA Medical School, Los Angeles CA
1989-2000
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Science California State University Northridge Northridge CA
1988-2000
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy California State University Northridge Northridge CA
Research Interests
Dr. Cagnon's research interests involve the physics of computed tomography (CT) image acquisition, including estimating radiation dose and assessing image quality. In addition, he is a faculty member of the NIH-sponsored UCLA Biomedical Physics Graduate Program.
Monte Carlo Based Patient Radiation Doses from CT The purpose of this work is to develop and test a method to estimate the relative and absolute absorbed radiation dose from axial and spiral CT scans using a Monte Carlo approach.
National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) The NLST is a joint collaboration between the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) and the Lung Screening Study and has enrolled over 50,000 older smokers that have been screened annually with either chest radiographs or low dose helical CT. Medical outcomes will be collected on these participants through 2009 to determine differences in lung cancer specific mortality between the two screening technologies. Dr. Cagnon is a member of the ACRIN-NLST physics Committee, whose responsibility it is to ensure standardization of imaging protocols, certification of imaging equipment, and ongoing periodic evaluation of equipment calibration and image quality.
Certificate of Merit for Education Exhibits: Report of CT Dose Indices Derived from Measurements Made on all Multi-Detector Row CT Scanners Used in the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST)
.
Cody, D., Cagnon, C., Larke, F., McNitt-Gray, M., Kruger, R., Flynn, M. et al
Abstract
RSNA 2007
2002
Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award: Excellence in Medical Imaging
Biomedical Physics Graduate Program
2001
ACMP Award Graduate Researcher
American College of Medical Physics
2000
SCC-AAPM Bailey Award: Monte Carlo Simulation of Computed Tomography
Southern California Chapter, American Association of Physicists in Medicine
