Working with
Academy Fellows
Jerome R. Cox,
Sc.D., and the
late Michael
Ter-Pogossian,
Ph.D., Dr. Snyder
participated
in research
to develop positron-emission-tomography
systems. He
established
and directed
the Electronic
Systems and
Signals Research
Laboratory,
which researched
fundamental
aspects of imaging
applied to biomedical,
astronomical,
and remote-sensing
problems. He
is renowned
for his contributions
to estimation
theory and its
applications
to communications
and medicine.
His current
research, along
with faculty
and students
from the Washington
University Schools
of Engineering
and Medicine,
is aimed at
improving the
capabilities
of x-ray imaging
technology to
improve the
treatment of
patients having
advanced cervical
cancer.
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