About the Author

Robert Senzig
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Experience

2018 - Present   CTO Senzig Consulting Services LLC (CT consulting)

* Vice President Clinical Engineering - MARS Bioimaging

2001-2018        GE Healthcare Milwaukee, Wi - Chief Engineer – Computed Tomography

* Responsible for product technology development roadmap that has resulted in>50% market share, consistently delivering industry-leading products.

* Responsible for content and delivery of GE’s technology message at the RSNA and other critical conferences. 

* Directed long-range technology development fund of $7M that has consistently delivered impactful technology to the product roadmap

* Conducted local and global design reviews that impacted architecture, commonality and critical program features. This has allowed us to avoid any serious quality issues.

2000-2001                    GE Healthcare Milwaukee, Wi - Advanced Applications Engineering Manager

*  Instrumental in the creation of this unit. Recruited outstanding talent for this new department

* Developed application concepts and customer relationships that enabled development of ground breaking cardiac applications.

1996–2000         GE Healthcare Milwaukee, Wi - CT System Engineering Manager

*  Supervised 23 scientists and engineers to develop system design and ensure product image quality

*  Led team to productize Lightspeed and develop follow-up on 8 and 16-slice products

1992–1996          GE Healthcare.    Milwaukee, Wi - Lightspeed Program Manager /  Lead System Designer

*  Developed concepts for major components of breakthrough multislice product.

*  Successfully convinced business that 4 slice product would be more impactful than 2 slice product spec.

*  Drove product feasibility team to the first prototype

1982–1992         GE Healthcare.    Milwaukee, Wi - CT Systems Engineer / Reconstruction Software Engineer

*  Delivered reconstruction performance enhancements

*  Discussed clinical needs with key customers and developed product enhancements to address the identified needs.

1976–1982          Allis Chalmers Corp.      West Allis, Wi - Research Engineer

*  Identified customer needs and developed product improvement concepts for agricultural and industrial products.

Education

1972–1976             UW-Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wi

*  B.S., Mechanical Design Engineering, Graduated top 5% of class

News

Patents/Publications

PAT. NO.         Title

7,211,046         Systems and methods for creating reformatted computed tomography images

7,177,453         Method and apparatus for partitioning a volume

7,031,425         Methods and apparatus for generating CT scout images

7,016,457         Multimode imaging system for generating high quality images

7,006,592         Computed tomography fluoroscopy system

6,904,127         System and method of medical imaging having default noise index override capability

6,947,584         Volume imaging system

6,816,567         System and method for acquiring x-ray data

6,810,102         Methods and apparatus for truncation compensation

6,801,594         Computed tomography fluoroscopy system

6,661,866         Integrated CT-PET system

6,650,928         Color parametric and composite maps for CT perfusion

6,421,412         Dual cardiac CT scanner

6,393,090         Computed tomography scout images with depth information

6,389,096         Methods and apparatus for providing additional computed tomography imaging modes

6,385,277         Methods and apparatus for using interlaced scans in CT imaging

6,304,625         Dose instrumentation methods and apparatus for collimated CT imaging systems

6,285,741         Methods and apparatus for automatic image noise reduction

6,275,560         Cardiac gated computed tomography system

6,198,791         Scalable multislice imaging system

6,023,494         Methods and apparatus for modifying slice thickness during a helical scan

5,907,593         Image reconstruction in a CT fluoroscopy system

5,668,846         Methods and apparatus for scanning an object and displaying an image in a computed tomography system

5,359,638         Method for recursiv

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Events
Publications I contributed to

  • A multi-source inverse-geometry CT system: initial results with an 8 spot x-ray source array - Medical Physics · Jan 1, 2014

    Computer-Assisted Scan Protocol and Reconstruction (CASPAR)—Reduction of Image Noise and Patient Dose -IEEE · Mar 1, 2010

    “Effects of fixed-rate CT projection data compression on perceived and measured CT image quality - SPIE Feb 2010

    Low Dose Spectral Projection ImagingLow Dose Spectral Projection Imaging
    RSNA · Jan 1, 2009

    Multi-source inverse-geometry CT: From system concept to research prototype - IEEE · Oct 1, 2009

    Real-time compression of raw computed tomography data: technology, architecture, and benefits - SPIE · Mar 1, 2009
    Simulation and analysis of image quality impact from single-source ultra-wide coverage CT scanner - SPIE · Jan 1, 2009
    Inverse geometry CT: The next-generation CT architecture? - IEEE · Oct 1, 200

    “Design of a tomotherapy unit”“Design of a tomotherapy unit”
    Med. Phys. 23-6, TU-C2-08, AAPM Annual Meeting 1996. · Jan 1, 1996

    Optimization of system design for 64-slice cone-beam computed tomographyOptimization of system design for 64-slice cone-beam computed tomography - SPIE · Oct 26, 20

    Coronary Artery Angiography Using Multislice Computed Tomography ImagesCoronary Artery Angiography Using Multislice Computed Tomography Images - AHA Circulation. 2000;102:1589-1590
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