Faculty

Ladder Faculty

Carson, Richard

Research Interests:Positron emission tomography (PET) modeling and physics; Tracer kinetic modeling methods and parametric imaging techniques for PET tracers; Application of receptors ligands to assess neurotransmitter dynamic; 3D and 4D PET image reconstruction; Medical imaging

Choma, Michael

Research Interests:Optics; Optical Coherence Tomography; Microscopy; Random Lasers; Pediatrics; Heart Development; Cilia; Respiratory Disease

Constable, R. Todd

Research Interests:Development of MRI techniques to provide functional information; Quantitative information and high quality pictures of anatomy; Application of new methods to answer fundamental questions in basic science and medicine

de Graaf, Robin

Research Interests:Cerebral energy metabolism

Duncan, James

Research Interests:Computer vision; Image processing and medical imaging, with an emphasis on biomedical image analysis

Hampson, Michelle

Research Interests:Resting state functional connectivity; Neurofeedback; Real-time fMRI

Huang, Yiyun

Research Interests:PET Radiochemistry, PET Radiotracer Development, Preclinical PET Imaging, Clinical PET Imaging, Application of PET Imaging in Drug Development

Mason, Graeme

Research Interests:Alcoholic Intoxication; Alcohol Induced Disorders; Alcoholism; Amino Acids; Brain Mapping; Carbohydrates; CNS Diseases; Cocaine-Related Disorders; Fatty Acids; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Mood disorders; Physiological Effects of Drugs; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome; Tobacco Use Disorder

Morris, Evan

Research Interests:kinetic modeling; parameter estimation; parametric imaging; dopamine; reward; drug occupancy; drug abuse; alcoholism; Parkinson's disease

Papademetris, Xenophon

Research Interests:Automated biomedical image analysis and measurement; interactive 3D visualization of medical images and structures

Rothman, Douglas

Research Interests:Development of MR spectroscopy and MR imaging methods to image metabolic and neurotransmitter pathways in humans and in animal models

Sampath, Smita

Research Interests:Novel magnetic resonance imaging; cardio-vascular medicine

Staib, Lawrence

Research Interests:Automated biomedical image analysis and measurement; geometric and probabilistic deformable models for segmentation and nonrigid registration of biomedical images for measurement of structure and function with applications to neuroscience and cardiology; functional magnetic resonance image (fMRI) analysis; diffusion weighted magnetic resonance (DW-MR) image analysis

Tagare, Hemant

Research Interests:Heart motion analysis

Research Faculty

Befroy, Douglas

Research Interests:Development of novel Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) techniques

Chelikani, Sudhakar

Research Interests:Tracking organ overlap

Chowdhury, Golam

Research Interests:NMR; 13C NMR; in vivo and ex vivo brain metabolism; glutamate; gamma-aminobutyrate; glutamine; neuron-glial trafficking; depression; stress; brain development; drugs discovery; hypoxia; nanotoxicity

Coman, Daniel

Research Interests:brain, temperature, pH, BIRDS, CEST, metabolism, energetics, thulium, TmDOTP, TmDOTMA

De Feyter, Henk

Research Interests:In vivo 13C MRS, Brain metabolism, tumor metabolism

D'Errico, Francesco

Research Interests:Superheated emulsions

Herman, Peter

Research Interests:fMRI; BOLD; local field potentials; multi unit activity; Laser-Doppler; optical imaging; laser speckle

Nabulsi, Nabeel

Research Interests:Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Radiopharmaceuticals

Negishi, Michiro

Research Interests:Eelectroencephalography, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Electrical Impedance Tomography

Peters, Dana

Research Interests:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; atrial fibrillation; radial imaging; late gadolinium enhancement; cardiac imaging.

Qiu, Maolin

Research Interests:Understanding the neurophysiological basis of neuroimaging and neural mechanisms of general anesthesia; Developing high-sensitivity and high-specificity NMR methods in understanding general anesthesia

Sanganahalli, Basavaraju

Research Interests:Brain, Neurovascular coupling, fMRI, Extracellular recording (LFP &MUA), Sensory processing, Sensory Integration

Secondary Faculty

Behar, Kevin

Research Interests:NMR; 1H NMR; 13C NMR; In vivo brain metabolism; Glutamate; Gamma-aminobutyrate; Glutamine; Neuron-glial trafficking

Fulbright, Robert

Research Interests:Neuroradiology; image processing; MR spectroscopy; diffusion tensor MR imaging; perfusion MR imaging; functional MR imaging; brain tumors; reading and reading disability

Hetherington, Hoby

Research Interests:High field methods and hardware for magnetic resonance imaging; human brain; metabolism and dysfunction in epilepsy; magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging

Pan, Jullie

Research Interests:Metabolic physiology of brain; neurotransmission and brain function; development and implementation of imaging in humans at ultra-high field (7Tesla); metabolic pathophysiology of epilepsy; clinical epilepsy; epilepsy imaging; outcome studies

Sinusas, Albert

Research Interests:Advanced cardiovascular and molecular imaging

Emeritus Faculty

Shulman, Robert

Research Interests:Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR); metabolic pathways in vivo