Joe Heanue, PhD

Dr. Joe Heanue has significant leadership experience in device and instrumentation research & development within interdisciplinary environments. He previously served as Vice President of Engineering at NexRay and at Signature Bioscience. At NexRay, Joe led the development of a low-dose x-ray imaging system for interventional cardiology. At Signature, he headed a group that delivered prototype RF and microwave spectroscopy instruments to a major instrument partner; the first of these instruments was launched in 2005 by MDS Sciex.

Joe’s extensive research and development experience includes the analysis and design of complex systems, x-ray and gamma-ray detector development, low-noise analog electronics, data-acquisition systems, signal and image processing, high-speed data-processing architectures, and thin-films failure analysis.

Joe holds patents for detector and image processing, spectroscopy, and a patent for medical system imaging architecture that is licensed to a major medical equipment manufacturer. He received a BS in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Joe was a postdoctoral researcher at Xerox PARC, and he has completed the Stanford University Executive Program for Growing Companies.

Publications Authored

JA Heanue, JK Brown, and BH Hasegawa, “Two-Dimensional Modeling of Cd( Zn)Te Strip Detectors,” IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, 44(3):701-707,1997.

CD Boles, BE Boser, BH Hasegawa, JA Heanue, “A Multimode Digital Detector Readout for Solid-State Medical Imaging Detectors,” IEEE J Solid-State Circuits, 33(5):733-742, 1998.

JA Heanue , DA Pearson, RE Melen, “CdZnTe detector array for a scanning-beam digital x-ray system,” Proc. SPIE Volume 3659 — Medical Imaging 1999: Physics of Medical Imaging, JM Boone, JT Dobbins III, ed’s, pp. 718-725, 1999.

EG Solomon, BP Wilfley, MS Van Lysel, AW Joseph, JA Heanue, “Scanning-beam digital x-ray (SBDX) system for cardiac angiography,” Proc. SPIE 3659:246-257, 1999

MA Speidel, BP Wilfley, JM Star-Lack, JA Heanue, MS Van Lysel, “Scanning-beam digital x-ray (SBDX) technology for interventional and diagnostic cardiac angiography,” Med. Phys., 33(8):2714-2727, 2006.

MA Speidel, BP Wilfley, JM Star-Lack, JA Heanue, TD Betts, MS Van Lysel, “Comparison of entrance exposure and signal-to-noise ratio between an SBDX prototype and a wide-beam cardiac angiographic system,” Med. Phys., 33(8): 2728-2743, 2006.