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Address:	Università di Pisa
	Dipartimento di Fisica "E. Fermi"
	Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3
	I-56127 Pisa (Italy)

CURRICULUM

Sascha studied at the University of Cagliari (I) and at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck (D) where he got his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering in 1999. During his studies he worked as Junior Researcher in the BioMedical Group of CRS4 (I).
Afterwards, he worked part-time as Research Assistant in the Audio and Multimedia Group at the Fraunhofer Institute in Erlangen (D), and studied at the same time Computational Engineering at the University of Erlangen (D), obtaining his Master of Science degree in 2003. He prepared his Master's Thesis in collaboration with the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (USA), where he stayed for six month as visiting research scholar.
In 2004 he joined the FIIG group and entered the Galileo Galilei Graduate School of Excellence obtaining his PhD in Applied Physics in 2008 from the University of Pisa (I). During his PhD studies he spent several months as Visiting Scientific Collaborator at the University Hospital of the VUB (B) and at the UCI (USA).
Since 2008 he continues to work as researcher in the FIIG group.

His complete CV can be found here:

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Image Reconstruction Methods for Emission and Transmission Tomography
• Monte-Carlo Simulations for PET/SPECT/CT Detector Design
• functional Brain Imaging
• Scientific and High Performance Computing
• Signal Processing (Audio Coding: MP3, AAC)

PUBLICATIONS (profile on google scholar)

Publications in peer-reviewed Journals

2011

• L. Guiducci, T. Liistro, S. Burchielli, D. Panetta, D. Bonora, P. Di Cecco, M. Bucci, S. Moehrs, A. Del Guerra, P. A. Salvadori, P. Iozzo, "Contribution of organ blood flow, intrinsic tissue clearance and glycemia to the regulation of glucose utilization in obese and type 2 diabetic rats: a PET study", Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular disease, 21(9):726-732, September 2011.
  
• G. Sportelli, N. Belcari, P. Guerra, F. Spinella, G. Franchi, F. Attanasi, S. Moehrs, V. Rosso, A. Santos, A. Del Guerra, "Reprogrammable Acquisition Architecture for Dedicated Positron Emission Tomography", IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 58(3):695-702, June 2011.
  
• A. Cornelio, F. Gasperini, S. Lo Meo, N. Lanconelli, S. Moehrs, S. Marcatili, M. G. Bisogni, A. Del Guerra, "Comparison of different reconstruction methods for planar images in small animal cameras", Journal of Instrumentation, 6(1):C01030, January 2011.
  

2010

• D. A. B. Bonifacio, N. Belcari, S. Moehrs, M. Moralles, V. Rosso, S. Vecchio, A. Del Guerra, "A Time Efficient Optical Model for GATE Simulation of a LYSO Scintillation Matrix Used in PET Applications", IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 57(5):2483-2489, October 2010.
  
• F. Attanasi, N. Belcari, S. Moehrs, V. Rosso, S. Vecchio, P. G. A. Cirrone, G. Cuttone, P. Lojacono, F. Romano, N. Lanconelli, A. Del Guerra, "Characterization of an In-Beam PET Prototype for Proton Therapy with Different Target Compositions", IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 57(3):1563-1569, June 2010.
  

2009

• G. Llosa Llacer, N. Belcari, M. G. Bisogni, G. Collazuol, S. Marcatilli, S. Moehrs, F. Morsani, C. Piemonte, A. Del Guerra, "Energy and Timing Resolution Studies With Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) and and 4-Pixel SiPM Matrices for PET", IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 56(3):543-548, June 2009.
  
• A. Del Guerra, N. Belcari, M. G. Bisogni, G. Lloca LLacer, S. Marcatili, S. Moehrs, "Advances in position sensitive photodetectors for PET applications", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 604(1-2):319-322, June 2009.
  
• S. Vecchio, F. Attanasi, N. Belcari, M. Camarda, G. A. P. Cirrone, G. Cuttone, F. Di Rosa, N. Lanconelli, S. Moehrs, V. Rosso, G. Russo, A. Del Guerra, "A PET Prototype for 'In-Beam' Monitoring of Proton Therapy", IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 56(1):51-56, February 2009.
  
• F. Attanasi, N. Belcari, A. Del Guerra, W. Enghardt, S. Moehrs, K. Parodi and V. Rosso and S. Vecchio, "Comparison of two dedicated in-beam PET systems via simultaneous imaging of ¹²C-induced &beta⁺-activity", Physics in Medicine and Biology, 54(2):N29-N35, January 2009.
  

2008

• S. Moehrs, M. Defrise, N. Belcari, A. Del Guerra, A. Bartoli, S. Fabbri and G. Zanetti, "Multi-Ray based system matrix generation for 3D PET reconstruction", Physics in Medicine and Biology, 53(23):6925-6945, October 2008.
  
• A. Del Guerra, N. Belcari, G. Llosa Llacer, S. Marcatili, S. Moehrs and D. Panetta, "Advanced Radiation Measurement Techniques in Diagnostic Radiology and Molecular Imaging", Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 131(1):136-142, August 2008.
  
• D. Panetta, N. Belcari, A. Del Guerra and S. Moehrs, "An optimization-based geometrical calibration method in cone-beam CT without dedicated phantoms", Physics in Medicine and Biology, 53(14):3841-3861, July 2008.
  
• G. Llosa, R. Battiston, N. Belcari, M. Boscardin, G. Collazuol, F. Corsi, G. F. Della Betta, A. Del Guerra, N. Dinu, G. Levi, S. Marcatili, S. Moehrs, C. Marzocca, C. Piemonte, A. Pozza, "Novel Silicon Photomultipliers for PET Applications", IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 55(3):877-881, June 2008.
  
• F. Attanasi, N. Belcari, M. Camarda, A. Del Guerra, S. Moehrs, V. Rosso, S. Vecchio, N. Lanconelli, G. A. P. Cirrone, F. Di Rosa, G. Russo, "Experimental validation of the filtering approach for dose monitoring in proton therapy at low energy", Physica Medica - European Journal of Medical Physics, 24(2):102-106, June 2008.
  

2007

• G. Llosa, N. Belcari, G. Collazuol, A. Del Guerra, S. Marcatili, S. Moehrs, C. Piemonte, T. A. Carpenter, R. C. Hawkes, A. J. Lucas, J. W. Stevick. "Solid state evolution", Nuclear Engineering International, 52(641):18-20, December 2007.
  
• D. J. Herbert, S. Moehrs, N. D'Ascenzo, N. Belcari, A. Del Guerra, F. Morsani, V. Saveliev, "The Silicon Photomultiplier for application to high-resolution Positron Emission Tomography", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 573(1-2):84-87, April 2007.
  

2006

• S. Moehrs, A. Del Guerra, D. J. Herbert, M. A. Mandelern, "A detector head design for small-animal PET with with silicon photomultipliers (SiPM)", Physics in Medicine and Biology, 51(5):1113-1127, March 2006.
  

2005

• A. Motta, A. Del Guerra, N. Belcari, S. Moehrs, D. Panetta, S. Righi, D. Valentini, "Fast 3D-EM reconstruction using Planograms for stationary planar positron emission mamography camera", Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 29(8):587-596, 2005.
  

2001

• G. Brelstaff, S. Moehrs, P. Anedda, M. Tuveri, G. Zanetti, "Internet Patient Records: new techniques", Journal of Medical Internet Research, 3(1):92-109, March 2001.
  

Selected Publications in Conference Proceedings

2007

• S. Moehrs, M. Defrise, N. Belcari, A. Del Guerra, A Multi-Ray-based system matrix generation for 3D PET reconstruction, In Proceedings of the 9th International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, http://www.fully3d.org/2007/Fully3D_HPIR_Proceedings.pdf, Lindau, Germany, July, 2007.
  

2006

• S. Moehrs, G. Belmonte, L. Biagi, M. Cosottini, A. Del Guerra, M. Tosetti, Bioelectric field simulations on cartesian grids: accurate treatment of anisotropies, singularities and immersed interfaces, In Brain Topography, Proceedings of the 17th Meeting of the International Society for Brain Electromagnetic Topography (ISBET), DOI: 10.1007/s10548-006-0016-8, ISSN(online):1573-6792, ISSN(print): 0896-0267, Chieti, Italy, September, 2006.
  

2004

• S. Moehrs, N. Belcari, A. Del Guerra, D. J. Herbert, M. A. Mandelkern, A. Motta, V. Saveliev, A Small-Animal PET Design Using SiPMs and Anger Logic with Intrinsic DOI, In IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium / Medical Imaging Conference Record, M9-147, 6:3475-3479, DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1466635, CDROM: 04CH37604C, ISBN: 0-7803-8701-5, Rome, Italy, October, 2004.
  

2002

• Sascha Moehrs, Jürgen Herre, Ralf Geiger, Analysing decompressed audio with the Inverse Decoder - towards an operative algorithm, In Record of the 112th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, CDROM: aes19, Preprint Number 5576, Munich, Germany, May, 2002.
  

Thesis / Dissertation

• Sascha Moehrs, Bioelectric Field Simulation and Visualisation: Anisotropic Conductivities for the Skull and Brain White Matter, Master Thesis in Computational Engineering, Lehrstuhl für Informatik 10 (Systemsimulation), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, July, 2003.
  
• Sascha Moehrs, Modeling of pixelated and continuous crystals for high-resolution small animal positron emission tomography, PhD Dissertation in Applied / Medical Physics, Dipartimento di Fisica "Enrico Fermi", Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, December, 2008.