Faculty by Areas of Research

Image Processing and Analysis

Sudhakar Chelikani

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

Research Interests:Tracking organ overlap

Michael Choma

Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, of Biomedical Engineering and of Pediatrics

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

Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Electrical Engineering
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Biomedical Engineering
Vice Chair, Bioimaging Sciences in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology

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

Xenophon Papademetris

Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

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

Kailasnath Purushothaman

Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering

Lawrence Staib

Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, of Biomedical Engineering and of Electrical Engineering

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

Hemant Tagare

Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, of Biomedical Engineering and of Electrical Engineering

Research Interests:Heart motion analysis

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

R. Todd Constable

Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, of Biomedical Engineering and of Neurosurgery

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

Gigi Galiana

Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology

Michelle Hampson

Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology

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

Michiro Negishi

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

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

Dana Peters

Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology

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

Maolin Qiu

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

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

Smita Sampath

Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Diagnostic Radiology and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

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

Xilin Shen

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Douglas Befroy

Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology and in Medicine (Endocrinology)

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

Kevin Behar

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Director, MRRC Neurometabolism Research Laboratory

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

Golam Chowdhury

Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry

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

Daniel Coman

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

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

Henk De Feyter

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

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

Robin de Graaf

Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and of Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests:Cerebral energy metabolism

Francesco D'Errico

Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

Research Interests:Superheated emulsions

Peter Herman

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

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

D. S. Fahmeed Hyder

Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and of Biomedical Engineering
Technical Director, Magnetic Resonance Research Center (mrrc.yale.edu)
Program Director, Core Center for Quantitative Neuroscience with Magnetic Resonance (qnmr.yale.edu)

Lihong Jiang

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

Christoph Juchem

Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and of Neurology

Graeme Mason

Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and of Psychiatry
Director Metabolic Modeling and Director Psychiatric MRS
Director, Neuroimaging Sciences Training Program
Chair, Magnetic Resonance Research Center Protocol Review Committee

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

Douglas Rothman

Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and of Biomedical Engineering
Director Yale MR Research Center

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

Positron Emission Tomography

Frederic Bois

Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry

Richard Carson

Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and of Biomedical Engineering
Director, Yale PET Center
Director of Graduate Studies, Biomedical Engineering

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

David Cheng

Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology
Chief, Nuclear Medicine
Director, Nuclear Medicine Fellowship Program
Co-Medical Director, Yale University PET Center

Research Interests:Molecular imaging

Kelly Cosgrove

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, of Diagnostic Radiology and of Neurobiology

Research Interests:Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography; Positron Emission Tomography; Neuroimaging; Alcohol Dependence; Tobacco Smoking; Nicotine Dependence; Brain; nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; GABAA-benzodiazepine receptor; Sex differences

Irina Esterlis

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and of Diagnostic Radiology

Research Interests:Neuroreceptor imaging; mood disorders; tobacco addiction

Jean-Dominique Gallezot

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

Yiyun Huang

Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology
Co-Director of Yale PET Center & Director of Chemistry

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

Alexander Karpikov

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology and Assistant In Instruction in Mechanical Engineering

David Labaree

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

Keunpoong Lim

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

Chi Liu

Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and of Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests:Quantitative PET/CT and SPECT/CT for cardiology and oncology applications, including image reconstruction algorithms, quantitative data correction, respiratory and cardiac motion compensation, dynamic imaging, and translational imaging.