Dr.rer.nat.

David Schug

Group Leader

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 +49 241 80 27803
 David.Schug@lfb.rwth-aachen.de



Curriculum Vitae

Jan 2023 – today Member of AG START, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen
Aug 2019 – today Co-Founder and Co-Director of Hyperion Hybrid Imaging Systems GmbH
Jan 2016 – today Groupleader PET detector research
Oct 2015 – today Radiation Safety Officer
Jan 2012 – Dec 2015 Dr.rer.nat. RWTH Aachen University
Oct 2009 – Nov 2011 M.Sc. Physics, RWTH Aachen University
Oct 2006 – Sep 2009 B.Sc. Physics, RWTH Aachen University

Research Fields


Thesis Topics

Publications

https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=2tJMJwgAAAAJ

Journal publications

2026

Julian Thull, Jan Remennik, David Schug, Bjoern Weissler, Yannick Kuhl and Volkmar Schulz
Uncertainty-aware gamma interaction localization and reconstruction in PET
In: Medical Physics 53 (5)

2026

Julian Thull, Yannick Kuhl, Florian Mueller, David Schug, Bjoern Weissler and Volkmar Schulz
Beyond mechanics: Maximum-likelihood-driven PET detector alignment calibration
In: Medical Physics 53 (1)

 
2025

Vanessa Nadig, Stefan Gundacker, Katrin Herweg, Stephan Naunheim, David Schug, Bjoern Weissler and Volkmar Schulz
ASICs in PET: what we have and what we need
In: EJNMMI Physics 12 (1)

2024

Yannick Kuhl, Florian Mueller, Stephan Naunheim, Matthias Bovelett, Janko Lambertus, David Schug, Bjoern Weissler, Eike Gegenmantel, Pierre Gebhardt and Volkmar Schulz
A Finely Segmented Semi-Monolithic Detector Tailored for High-Resolution PET
In: Medical Physics

2024

Yannick Kuhl, Florian Mueller, Julian Thull, Stephan Naunheim, David Schug and Volkmar Schulz
3D in-system calibration method for PET detectors
In: Medical Physics

2024

Vanessa Nadig, Stefan Gundacker, David Schug, Katrin Herweg, Konstantin Weindel, Harald Radermacher, Florian Mueller, Bjoern Weissler and Volkmar Schulz
Scalable, Time-of-Flight and Depth-of-Interaction Detector Units for High-Resolution PET Systems
In: IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences 8 (1)

2023

Yannick Kuhl, Stephan Naunheim, David Schug, Volkmar Schulz and Florian Mueller
Angular Irradiation Methods for DOI Calibration of Light-Sharing Detectors—A Perspective for PET In-System Calibration
In: IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences

2023

Stephan Naunheim, Yannick Kuhl, David Schug, Volkmar Schulz and Florian Mueller
Improving the Timing Resolution of Positron Emission Tomography Detectors Using Boosted Learning—A Residual Physics Approach
In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

2022

Florian Mueller, Stephan Naunheim, Yannick Kuhl, David Schug, Torsten Solf and Volkmar Schulz
A Semi-Monolithic Detector Providing Intrinsic DOI-Encoding and Sub-200 ps CRT TOF-Capabilities for Clinical PET Applications
In: Medical Physics

2022

Stephan Naunheim, Yannick Kuhl, Torsten Solf, David Schug, Volkmar Schulz and Florian Mueller
Analysis of a convex time skew calibration for light sharing-based PET detectors
In: Physics in Medicine & Biology

 
2021

Laiyin Yin, Franziska Schrank, Nicolas Gross-Weege, David Schug and Volkmar Schulz
RF shielding materials for highly-integrated PET/MRI systems
In: Physics in Medicine & Biology 66 (9)

Conference publications

2026

J. Thull, Y. Kuhl, T. Meyer, M. Henning, B. Weissler, D. Schug and V. Schulz
Detector-Wise Learning for Scalable In-System PET Timing Calibration
In: PSMR 2026 Valencia

2025

Yannick Kuhl, Julian Thull, Eike Gegenmantel, Bjoern Weissler, David Schug and Volkmar Schulz
In-System Calibration of Gamma and Detector Positioning for High-Resolution PET Imaging: Demonstration on the HYPMED Scanner
In: 2025 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and International Symposium on Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detectors (NSS MIC RTSD)

 
2023

Matthias Bovelett, Yannick Kuhl, Stephan Naunheim, David Schug, Volkmar Schulz and Florian Mueller
Implementation and Evaluation of a 3D-dependend Energy-calibration algorithm
In: IEEE NSS MIC 2023

 
2022

Stephan Naunheim, Yannick Kuhl, Bjoern Weissler, David Schug, Harald Radermacher, Florian Mueller, Vanessa Nadig, Laiyin Yin, Karl Krueger, Max Peters, Pierre Gebhardt, Nicolas Groß-Weege, Teresa Nolte, Eike Gegenmantel, Martino Borgo, J van der Berghe, D Gareis, T Celik, Sebastian Aussenhofer, Andre Salomon, Dennis R Schaart, René Bakker, Langen K J, Christiane Kuhl and Volkmar Schulz
The HYPMED PET/MRI Insert for Enhanced Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
In: PSMR 2022 Elba

 
2022

Stephan Naunheim, Yannick Kuhl, Bjoern Weissler, David Schug, Harald Radermacher, Florian Mueller, Vanessa Nadig, Laiyin Yin, Karl Krueger, Max Peters, Pierre Gebhardt, Nicolas Groß-Weege, Teresa Nolte, Eike Gegenmantel, Martino Borgo, J van der Berghe, D Gareis, T Celik, Sebastian Aussenhofer, Andre Salomon, Dennis R Schaart, René Bakker, Langen K J, Christiane Kuhl and Volkmar Schulz
Enhanced Diagnosis of Breast Cancer With The HYPMED PET/MRI Insert
In: IEEE NSS MIC 2022

 
2021

Stephan Naunheim, Torsten Solf, Yannick Kuhl, David Schug, Volkmar Schulz and Florian Mueller
Exploring Timing Resolution Limits of Cost-Effective DOI-capable Semi-Monolithic Detectors for Total-Body PET
In: Total-Body PET Conference