Dr. Susan Kraft

Dr. Kraft is a Professor in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences and serves as a veterinary radiologist providing clinical service in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital and as Director of Imaging Research in the Animal Cancer Center. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biology at the University of Alaska. She completed her DVM, radiology residency, and Ph.D. at Washington State University. Her special clinical imaging interests are magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and cancer imaging. In addition to board certification in diagnostic imaging, she is also boarded in veterinary radiation oncology with interest in the application of imaging modalities for treatment planning as well as evaluation of radiation effects. Dr. Kraft’s research involves the use of MRI, Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) for detecting and characterizing cancer and in evaluating its response to therapy. This particularly involves imaging of parameters important to treatment response such as tumor hypoxia, perfusion, and tumor metabolism.