Nuclear Science Laboratory


Projects

Concept Mapping: a learning intervention and assessment tool to promote conceptual understanding and clinical reasoning in education. 
Empirical evidence strongly supports concept mapping, and outcomes from this ongoing investigation have been reported on state, regional, national, and international levels.

Nuclear Cardiology Instrumentation: attenuation of gamma rays in dense metals. Dense metal collimator alternatives to lead (Pb) focuses on the measurement of the interactions of low energy gamma rays with dense metals for applications in nuclear cardiology collimators. Successful application would enable simultaneous dual isotope cardiac perfusion/viability imaging. Sponsored in part by the Center for Undergraduate Research.

Diabetes Clinical Research: the effects of diabetic ketoacidosis on inflammation in pediatric patients. Current emphasis is on cardiac inflammatory markers and physiologic response. However, this research has also been directed at other organ systems with known microvasculature, such as lungs, and the impact of DKA on the brain and the patient's neurocognitive responses.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Hoffman WH, Passmore GG, Hannon DW, Talor MV, Fox P, Brailer C, Haislip D, Keel C, Harris G, Rose NR, Fiordalisi I, & Cihakova D. "Increased systemic Th17 cytokines are associated with diastolic dysfunction in children and adolescents with diabetic ketoacidosis."
PLOS ONE. 8(8):e71905.2013. (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.l0071905)

Passmore G, Owen M, and Prabakaran, K. "Empirical evidence of the effectiveness of concept mapping as a learning intervention for distance learning NMT students in a radiation protection and biology course." Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology201139:284-289 (10.2967/jnmt.111.093062).

Passmore GG, Lynam TF, & Spradlin JL. "Measurement of Low Energy Gamma Rays with Dense Metals for Applications in Nuclear Cardiology Imaging" Georgia Journal of Science, V72(1):54. 2014. 

Contact Us

   Gregory C. Passmore, PhD
Professor and Program Directory, Nuclear Medicine Technology 

  Department of Medical Laboratory, Imaging, and Radiologic Sciences

   987 St. Sebastian Way, EC 2408 Augusta, GA 30912
   706-721-3691 
  gpassmor@augusta.edu