Biography

Place of birth:  Rome, Italy

Date of birth: 21/06/1987

Citizenship: Italian

e-mail: enrico.preziosi@uniroma2.it

Current position: Researcher at NAST Centre of the Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”

Enrico Preziosi, PhD is an experimental physicist with a PhD in Biophysics. His research has been focused on Medical Physics and, more specifically, on gamma-detectors for imaging devices in Nuclear Medicine, especially for Positron Emission Tomography. Currently, he is involved in TECNOMUSE project, which purpose is the development of a muon tomography scanner for the examination of containers to prevent radioactive and hazardous threats. In addition, he is the co-founder, CEO and CTO of an innovative Start-up company having the aim to develop an innovative gamma-detector for Radiation Protection.

Research Activity

I am an experimental physicist with a PhD in Biophysics.

My research has been focused on Medical Physics and, more specifically, on gamma-detectors for imaging devices in Nuclear Medicine. I have worked on the optimization of X-gamma radiation detectors for Gamma-cameras, Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET). With Sapienza University, I have been a researcher in the context of the MINDView (Multimodal Imaging of Neurological Disorders) European project in which my work was the optimization of the detectors composing a head-dedicated and MRI-compatible PET scanner.
I have skills in the development of Monte Carlo simulations for medical, radiotherapy and radioprotection applications and I am competent in many Medical Imaging techniques, especially Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and multi-modal imaging applications, too. In addition, I have a good knowledge in Neuroscience, Biochemistry and Atomic Force Microscopy.
From 2017, I’m the co-founder, CEO and CTO of the ERMES IT S.r.l., an innovative Start-up company which aim is the development of a novel detector for ionizing radiations and its market entry in the field of instrumentation for Radiation Protection.
Currently, I’m involved in TECNOMUSE project, which purpose is the development of a muon tomography scanner for the examination of containers to prevent radioactive and hazardous threats.

Selected Publications

Articles

[2018] Benlloch, J. M., González, A. J., Pani, R., Preziosi, E., Jackson, C., Murphy, J., … & Visvikis, D. (2018). The MINDVIEW project: First results. European Psychiatry.

[2018] Borrazzo, C., Galea, N., Pacilio, M., Altabella, L., Preziosi, E., Carnì, M., … & Carbone, I. (2018). Myocardial blood flow estimates from dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging: three quantitative methods. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 63(3), 035008.

[2017] Bettiol, M., Preziosi, E., Borrazzo, C., Polito, C., Cinti, M. N., Pellegrini, R., & Pani, R. (2017). LaBr3: Ce and NaI: Tl performance comparison for single photon emission detector. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment.

[2016] Preziosi, E., Pani, R., Trigila, C., Polito, C., Bettiol, M., Borrazzo, C., … & Pellegrini, R. (2016). A crystal identification method for monolithic phoswich detectors based on scintillation light distribution. Journal of Instrumentation, 11(12), P12009.

[2016] Preziosi, E., Sánchez, S., González, A. J., Pani, R., Borrazzo, C., Bettiol, M., … & Benlloch, J. M. (2016). Performance study of a PET scanner based on monolithic scintillators for different DoI-dependent methods. Journal of Instrumentation, 11(12), C12076.

[2016] Bettiol, M., Preziosi, E., Cinti, M. N., Borrazzo, C., Fabbri, A., Cassano, B., … & Pani, R. (2016). A Depth-of-Interaction encoding method for SPECT monolithic scintillation detectors. Journal of Instrumentation, 11(12), C12054.

[2016] Sanchez, S., Preziosi, E., Gonzalez, A. J., Conde, P., Iborra, A., Moliner, L., … & García-Garrigos, J. J. (2016, October). Performance evaluation of the mindview PET using GATE and STIR. In Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detector Workshop (NSS/MIC/RTSD), 2016 (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

[2016] Borrazzo, C., Preziosi, E., Borasi, G., Bettiol, M., Sánchez, S., Carnì, M., … & Napoli, A. (2016, October). PET and MRI-guided focused ultrasound surgery for neurological applications. In Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detector Workshop (NSS/MIC/RTSD), 2016 (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

[2016] Borrazzo, C., Bettiol, M., Bennati, P., Preziosi, E., Fabbri, A., Scafè, R., … & Pani, R. (2016, October). Monte Carlo simulation to evaluate factors affecting imaging performances of compact scintillation gamma camera. In Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detector Workshop (NSS/MIC/RTSD), 2016 (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

[2016] González, A. J., González-Montoro, A., Aguilar, A., Conde, P., Cañizares, G., Hernández, L., … Preziosi, E., … & Sánchez, F. (2016, October). A brain PET insert MR compatible: Final design and first results. In Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detector Workshop (NSS/MIC/RTSD), 2016 (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

[2016] Pani, R., Bettiol, M., Preziosi, E., Borrazzo, C., Pellegrini, R., González, A. J., … & Majewski, S. (2016). A Novel Method for $\gamma-\text {photons} $ Depth-of-Interaction Detection in Monolithic Scintillation Crystals. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 63(5), 2487-2495.

[2016] Bettiol, M., Preziosi, E., Borrazzo, C., Cinti, M. N., Gonzalez, A. J., & Pani, R. (2016). Depth-of-interaction discrimination to correct parallax error in high resolution PET. Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics, 32, 98.

[2016] Pani, R., Bettiol, M., Preziosi, E., Cinti, M. N., Borrazzo, C., Pellegrini, R., … & Fabbri, A. (2016). Position algorithm for monolithic scintillation crystals based on charge projection readout. Journal of Instrumentation, 11(01), C01061.

[2015] Pani, R., Cinti, M. N., Scafè, R., Bennati, P., Meo, S. L., Preziosi, E., … & Fabbri, A. (2015). A study of response of a LuYAP: Ce array with innovative assembling for PET. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 795, 82-87.

[2015] Pani, R., Gonzalez, A. J., Bettiol, M., Fabbri, A., Cinti, M. N., Preziosi, E., … & Majewski, S. (2015). Preliminary evaluation of a monolithic detector module for integrated PET/MRI scanner with high spatial resolution. Journal of Instrumentation, 10(06), C06006.