Christian Wietholt

Christian Wietholt has been working in image analysis since 1997, when he started his Diplom Ingenieur thesis work in the Radiology Department at the University Hospital in Muenster to complete his degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Gelsenkirchen. His project was focused on software and method development for automated detection of lung nodules in low-dose CT images. After successfully completing an internship in the Imaging Lab of the Biomedical Engineering Department at Marquette University, he was granted a scholarship from the Whitaker Foundation to continued his studies at Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin with a focus in Functional Imaging. The project focus of his dissertation work was the development of a system for image reconstruction from pinhole SPECT data, image registration, fusion and analysis. During his Post Doc at the National Health Research Institute in Taiwan, he continued his work on pinhole SPECT reconstruction and image analysis work. He also consulted at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital during the setup of the Molecular Imaging Center and taught image analysis topics at Chang Gung University. He then jointed the Integrated Small Animal Imaging Resource at the University of Chicago as the Technical Director of the Preclinical SPECT/PET/CT laboratory. It is here where he was introduced to Amira. After several years in this position, he eventually jointed the Amira team as a Application Engineer and progressed to be Product Manager and CSPO of Amira.