Bijoy Kumar Kundu

Bijoy Kumar Kundu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He holds a PhD in Physics from the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, India, and completed postdoctoral work at the Indian Institute of Technology and UVA. His primary affiliation is within the School of Medicine, specifically in the Cardiovascular Research Center.

Dr. Kundu's research focuses on developing novel PET imaging techniques to study metabolic and cardiovascular processes. Key areas include quantifying myocardial glucose and fatty acid metabolism in rodent models of heart disease, optimizing PET imaging for human brain and breast lesions, and applying machine learning for image analysis. His lab is funded by NIH grants, collaborating with institutions like the University of Texas and Spain’s Oncovision Inc.

His work addresses metabolic remodeling in hypertension-induced left ventricular hypertrophy, brain abnormalities via FDG PET, and breast lesion segmentation using neural networks. Notable projects include noninvasive detection of early metabolic changes in cardiac diseases and advancements in PET quantification methods to correct partial volume and spill-over effects.