DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL PHYSICS

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN -School of Medicine & Public Health

 

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John R. Vetter, Ph.D.

Associate Professor (CHS), Department Administrator

ABR Certified, Diagnostic Radiological Physics

 

1014 Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research

UW-Medical Physics

Madison, WI 53705

 

Telephone: 608/262-8780 office

Fax: 608/262-2413

E-mail:  jrvetter@wisc.edu

 

  

PROFILE LINKS

  
 

OTHER DEPARTMENT AFFILIATIONS [back to top of page]

  • Medical Physics

 

EDUCATION [back to top of page]

  
 

  • B.S., University of Wisconsin-School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison (Physics)

  • M.S., University of Wisconsin - School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, (Medical Physics)

  • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (Medical Physics)

  

POSITIONS [back to top of page]

  • 1992-1993, Researcher, Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

  • 1993-1996,,Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept of Medical Physics, U of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

  • 1995-present, Director, Radiological Physics Services, Dept of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin,  Madison, WI.

  • 1997, Assistant Professor (CHS), Department Administrator, Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

  • 1994, Diplomate of the American Board of Radiology in Diagnostic Radiological Physics.

  • 1996-2003,Physical Imaging Panel Member, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Breast Cancer Research Program, Prostate Cancer Research Program.

  • 2003, Short Term Consultant in Diagnostic Radiology Physics, World Health Organization Western Pacific Region, Manila, Philippines. 

 

AWARDS AND HONORS [back to top of page]

  
     

 

MEMBERSHIPS [back to top of page]

  
 

  • American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

  • American College of Radiology

 

 

PATENTS [back to top of page]

  

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PUBLICATIONS [back to top of page]

 
 

  1. R.B. Mazess, and J.R. Vetter, "The Influence of Marrow on Measurement of Trabecular Bone Using Computed tomography" Bone 6: 349-351 (1985).

  2. W.A. Kalender, W.H. Perman, J.R. Vetter, and E. Klotz, "Evaluation of a Prototype Dual-Energy Computed Tomographic Apparatus I. Phantom Studies," Medical Physics 13(3): 334-339 (1986).

  3. J.R. Vetter, W.H. Perman, W.A. Kalender, R.B. Mazess, and R.E. Holden, "Evaluation of a Prototype Dual-Energy Computed Tomographic Apparatus II. Determination of Vertebral Bone Mineral Content," Medical Physics 13(3): 340-343 (1986).

  4.  R.B. Mazess, J.R. Vetter, and D.S. Weaver, "Bone Changes in Olphorectomized Monkeys: CT Findings," J. Computer Assisted Tomography  11: 302-305 (1987).

  5. J.R. Vetter, and J.E.  Holden, "Corrections for Scattered Radiation and Other Background Signals in Dual-Energy CT Material Thickness Measurements," Medical Physics 15(5): 726-731 (1988).

  6. R.B. Mazess, H. Barden, J.R. Vetter,  and M. Ettinger, "Advances in Noninvasive Bone Measurements," Annals of Biomedical Engineering 17: 177-181 (1989).

  7. J.R. Vetter, "The Study of Dual-Energy Computed Tomography as a Technique for Measuring Bone Mineral Density," (Medical Physics Publishing Company, Madison, WI, 1990).

  8. R.B. Mazess, P. Pedersen, J.R. Vetter, and H.S. Barden, "Bone Densitometry of Excised Vertebrae; Anatomical Relationships," Calcif.\Tissue Int. 48: 380-386 (1991).

  9. R.J. Aus, L.A. DeWerd, and J.R. Vetter, "Entrance Skin Exposure and Mean Glandular Dose: Effect of Scatter and Field Gradient at Mammography," Radiology  205(2): 395-398 (1997). 

Last Modified: 04/02/2008

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