STIR credits

Overall technical development supervisor: Thielemans, Kris

See the .zenodo.json file for programmers, ordered roughly in order of number of lines surviving in the code (with the caveat that we cannot properly count contributions from during PARAPET days due to a problem when translating between CVS and git).

## contributions since the PARAPET EU project (April 2000)

See also the `contrib` sub-directory available in the documentation zip file.

Overall technical development supervisor: Thielemans, Kris

Institutions/individuals contributing (ordered roughly chronologically):

    1.  Medical Research Council (MRC), Cyclotron Unit
       London, UK
       (1/4/2000 - 13/02/2001)
       Thielemans, Kris

    2. Imaging Research Solutions Ltd (later called Hammersmith Imanet Ltd)
       London UK
       (14/02/2001 - 30/06/2011 )
       Thielemans, Kris
       Mustafovic, Sanida
       Tsoumpas, Charalampos
       Kerrouche, Nacer
       Borgeaud, Timothy

    3. Imperial College London and Medical Research Council
       London UK
       Mustafovic, Sanida (2000 - 2003)
       Tsoumpas, Charalampos (2004 - 2008)

    4. National Technical University of Athens, Greece
       (2005-2007)
       Basic support for SimSET, single scatter implementation, B-splines
       Tsoumpas, Charalampos
       Dikaios, Nikolaos
       supervisors Nikita, Konstantina and Thielemans, Kris

    5. Univ of Barcelona, Spain
       (2005)
       Basic support for SimSET, testing of single scatter implementation
       Aguiar, Pablo
       supervisors Ros, Domenec and Thielemans, Kris

    6. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
       (2005)
       Updates to the Shape3D hierarchy
       Schmidtlein, C. Ross
       Kirov, Assen S

    7. Univ of Paderborn, Germany
       (2007)
       Initial version for parallelisation of OSMAPOSL using MPI
       Beisel, Tobias
       supervisor Lietsch, Stefan and Thielemans, Kris

    8. Algorithms and Software Consulting Ltd, UK
       (2011-2013)
       General maintenance, swig updates for Python support
       Thielemans, Kris

    9. King's College London, UK
       (2013)
       Initial version for motion utilities including motion-corrected reconstruction from gated data
       Some additional IO
       Tsoumpas, Charalampos

    10. University of Barcelona, Spain
       (2013)
       SPECT projector matrix
       Falcón, Carlés

    11. Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain
        (2013)
        Integration of SPECT UB code into STIR, SPECT Interfile IO, ITK IO.
        Martí Fuster, Berta

    12. University of Hull, UK
        (2017-2019)
        scatter updates, list mode reconstruction, ROOT support etc
        Efthimiou, Nikos

    13. CSIRO AeHRC
        patient orientation and  geometrical support, HKEM improvements
        Gillman, Ashley

    14. University of Leeds, UK
        HKEM implementation, support for GE Signa PET/MR, improvements "blocks on cylindrical"
        Deidda, Daniel
        Wadhwa, Palak
        Dao, Viet Ahn

    15. ETH Zurich, Switserland
        SAFIR listmode file format, blocks on cylindrical and generic scanner modelling
        Fisher, Jannis
        Khateri, Parisa
        Roethlisberger, Michael

    16. Positrigo, Switserland
        SWIG improvements and "blocks on cylindrical" testing
        Mikhaylova, Ekaterina
        Jehl, Markus
        Fisher, Jannis

    17. National Physical Laboratory, UK
        HKEM improvements, list mode and projection functionalities for SPECT, improvements to "blocks on cylindrical",
        radionuclide database and calibration functionality
        Deidda, Daniel

    18. University College London, UK
        (2013-2022)
        scatter updates, dynamic data updates, OPENMP, PLS prior, reconstruction hierarchy, Siemens ECAT8 support etc
        help with integration and general maintenance
        Brown, Richard
        Efthimiou, Nikos
        Twyman, Robert
        Tsai, Yu-jung
        Emond, Elise
        Rashidnasab, Alaleh
        Thomas, Benjamin
        Thielemans, Kris

## Contributors during the PARAPET EU project

(1997 - 30/03/2000)

### Institutions

    1. Hammersmith Hospital - Medical Research Council (MRC)
       London, UK
       Terry SPINKS

    2. Brunel University
       Department of Mathematical Sciences
       London, UK
       Gautam MITRA

    3. Ospedale San Raffaele (HSR)
       Dipartemento di Scienze e Technologie Biomediche
       Milan, Italy
       Maria Carla GILARDI

    4. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
       MINERVA, Optimization Center (MOC)
       Haifa, Israel
       Aharon BEN-TAL, Roni LEVKOVITZ

    5. ELGEMS Ltd.
       Haifa, Israel
       Michael WILK

    6. Geneva University Hospital (HUG)
       Division of Nuclear Medicine
       Geneva, Switzerland
       Christian MOREL

    7. Parsytec GmbH
       Aachen, Germany
       Arwed EXNER, Carsten RIETBROCK, Stefan KAISER, Volkmar FRIEDRICH

### Programmers

    	Zverovich, Alexey (Brunel)
    	Zibulevsky, Michael (MOC)
    	Zaidi, Habib (HUG)
    	Valente, Patrick (Brunel)
    	Thielemans, Kris (MRC)
    	Sauge, Damien (HUG)
    	Sadki, Mustapha (Brunel)
    	Pagani, Elizabetta (HSR)
    	Mustafovic, Sanida (MRC)
    	Labbe, Claire (HUG)
    	Jacobson, Matthew (MOC)
    	Hague, Darren (Brunel)
    	Gordon, Ekaterina (MOC)
    	Belluzzo, Damiano (HSR)

    Design I:

    	Zibulevsky, Michael (MOC)
    	Thielemans, Kris (MRC)
    	de Oliveira, Cristina (MRC)
    	Labbe, Claire (HUG)
    	Hague, Darren (Brunel)

    Design II:

    	Zverovich, Alexey (Brunel)
    	Thielemans, Kris (MRC, IRSL)
    	Sadki, Mustapha (Brunel)
    	Mustafovic, Sanida (MRC, IRSL)
    	Jacobson, Matthew (MOC)

Overall technical development supervisor: Thielemans, Kris (MRC)

## Institutions/individuals who contributed code before the PARAPET EU project

    1. University of Lausanne, Switserland
       Matthias Egger, Christian Morel
       Incremental interpolating backprojector, ray-tracing forward projector,
       Colsher filter for 3DRP, FORE

## STIR logo

Pablo Aguiar

## Web site

The STIR web-site is maintained by Algorithms and Software Consulting Ltd. It is loosely based on the PARAPET web site, as designed by Patrick Valente (Brunel).

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