Walter Huda PhD

Dr. Walter Huda trained in England (Physics BA at Oxford University; Medical Physics Ph.D. at the Hammersmith Hospital/University of London) and worked from 1976-to 81 at Amersham International, a commercial company specializing in radioactive products. He has worked as a diagnostic medical physicist at the Manitoba Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation in Winnipeg, Canada (1982-1990), the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida (1990-1997), and at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY (1997-2007). He is currently a Professor of Radiology at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Dr. Walter Huda is actively involved in the clinical use of medical imaging equipment, particularly maximizing the diagnostic information whilst keeping patient doses as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA). Dr Huda’s primary research activities relate to medical imaging and radiation dosimetry. Since the early 1980s, Dr. Huda pioneered the use of the effective dose to quantify the radiation dose received by patients undergoing radiological examinations that use ionizing radiation. Dr. Huda has also developed quantitative methods for quantifying imaging performance. Dr. Huda is currently actively involved in the use of Alternative Forced Choice (AFC) methods for measuring imaging performance in CT, and investigating the trade-off between dose and image quality in this imaging modality. Dr Huda has published over 200 scientific papers and has been awarded 24 research grants with a total value approaching $4 million.