John M. Boone PhD

John M Boone Ph.D. is a professor of radiology at the University of California, Davis, and holds an appointment in the department of biomedical engineering as well. He received his undergraduate degree in biophysics at UC Berkeley and finished his graduate work in medical physics at the University of California Irvine. He is board-certified by the American Board of Radiology in diagnostic radiological physics.

Dr. Boone has many research interests including computed tomography dosimetry, quantitative metrics for image quality assessment, cone-beam CT system design, multi-x-ray source imaging systems, and computer modeling of imaging systems. He has focused recently on breast dosimetry and on the development of breast computed tomography (BCT) for breast cancer screening and diagnostic evaluation. His lab has designed, fabricated, and tested four prototype breast CT scanners, and over 1000 breast scans have been performed on these systems. His research on breast CT has focused on technical development, clinical assessment, observer performance, and clinical translation.

Dr. Boone is co-author of the medical imaging textbook, the Essential Physics of Medical Imaging, and is a commissioner of the International Commission on Radiation Units (ICRU). He is a fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the American College of Radiology (ACR), the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineering (SPIE). He served as President of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine in 2016 and chaired this organization’s Board of Directors in 2016.