Tobias Funk, PhD

Dr. Tobias Funk has years of experience in the development of instrumentation for science and medicine. Prior to joining Triple Ring, he worked as a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and in the Department of Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco. Tobias is an experimental solid state physicist by training and has focused on utilization of ionizing radiation throughout his career. He developed synchrotron instrumentation for spectroscopy on proteins and ultra-low temperature equipment for nuclear solid state physics. More recently, he worked on SPECT imaging and developed a dedicated cardiac SPECT system that was successfully brought to market. At Triple Ring, Tobias focuses on developing products around the use of ionizing radiation. One example is a simulation package for explosive detection with X-rays for the Department of Homeland Security.

Tobias received his MS and Ph.D. from Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany. He has authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications and has over 10 granted and pending patents. He is a reviewer, an associate editor, and a member of the editorial board for various peer-reviewed journals.

Publications Authored

P Despres, WC Barber, T Funk, KS Shah, and BH Hasegawa, “Modeling and Correction of Spatial Distortion in Position-Sensitive Avalanche Photodiodes,” IEEE Trans on Nucl Sci, 54(1):23-29, 2007.

P Despres, T Funk, KS Shah, and BH Hasegawa, “Monte Carlo simulations of compact gamma cameras based on avalanche photodiodes,” Phys Med Biol, 52(11): 3057-3074, 2007.

T Funk, P Kennepohl, AJ Di Bilio, WA Wehbi, AT Young, S Friedrich, E Arenholz, HB Gray, SP Cramer, “X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Nickel(II) Azurin,” J Am Chem Soc, 126:5859-5866, 2004.

T Funk, A Debc , SJ George , H Wang , SP Cramer, “X-ray magnetic circular dichroism – a high energy probe of magnetic properties,” Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 249: 3–30, 2005.

T Funk, M Sun, BH Hasegawa, “Radiation dose estimate in small animal SPECT and PET,” Med Phys, 31(9):2680-2686, 2004.

T Funk, DL Kirch, JE Koss, E Botvinick, BH Hasegawa, “A Novel Approach to Multipinhole SPECT for Myocardial Perfusion Imaging,” J Nucl Med, 47(4):595-602, 2006.

T Funk, P Despres, WC Barber, KS Shah, and BH Hasegawa, “A Multipinhole Small Animal SPECT System with Submillimeter Spatial Resolution,” Med Phys, 33(5): 1259-68, 2006.

P Despres, WC Barber, T Funk, M McClish, KS Shah, and BH Hasegawa, “Investigation of a Continuous Crystal PSAPD-based Gamma Camera,” IEEE Trans on Nucl Sci, 53(3): 1643-1649, 2006.

T Funk, DL Kirch, M Sun, EW Izaguirre, JE Koss, BH Hasegawa, “Simulation and validation of point spread functions in pinhole imaging,” IEEE Trans on Nucl Sci, 53(5): 2729 – 2735, 2006.