Marc-Antoine Leclerc
M.Sc Student
Medical Physics Unit
Department of Oncology
Bio
Marc-Antoine was born and raised near Montreal, where he completed a bachelor’s degree in Honours Physics at McGill University. He conducted his undergraduate thesis in the EngerLab, focusing on developing a scintillator-based detector for quality assurance of an alpha-emitting brachytherapy source. Marc-Antoine is currently a master’s student in medical physics at McGill University.
Current Projects
Non- invasive radiation detector to measure the arterial input function from the radial artery.
Dynamic positron emission tomography (dPET) is a functional imaging technique that often relies on measuring radioactivity in arterial blood plasma, known as the arterial input function (AIF). This measurement is typically performed using invasive arterial blood sampling under local anesthesia. While alternative methods exist, they still have limitations. To address this issue, our group is developing a noninvasive radiation detector to measure the AIF from the radial artery. The goal of this project is to improve the detector’s calibration and efficiency