Faculty by Areas of Research

Image Processing and Analysis

Chelikani, Sudhakar

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

Research Interests:Tracking organ overlap

Choma, Michael

Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and of Biomedical Engineering

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

Papademetris, Xenophon

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

Staib, Lawrence

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

Tagare, Hemant

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

Research Interests:Heart motion analysis

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Constable, R. Todd

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

Galiana, Gigi

Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology

Hampson, Michelle

Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

Research Interests:Resting state functional connectivity; biofeedback; real-time fMRI

Negishi, Michiro

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

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

Peters, Dana

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

Research Interests:magnetic resonance imaging, atrial fibrillation, radial imaging, late gadolinium enhancement, cardiac imaging

Qiu, Maolin

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

Sampath, Smita

Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and of Biomedical Engineering

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

Shapiro, Erik

Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and of Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests:Molecular and cellular imaging in preclinical animals studies; development of novel contrast agents for molecular imaging; sodium MRI for musculoskeletal imaging

Shen, Xilin

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

Zhang, Xiaohui

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Befroy, Douglas

Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology and in Medicine (Endocrinology)

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

Behar, Kevin

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

Chowdhury, Golam

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; hyopxia; nanotoxicity

Coman, Daniel

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

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

De Feyter, Henk

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

de Graaf, Robin

Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and of Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests:Cerebral energy metabolism

D'Errico, Francesco

Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

Research Interests:Superheated emulsions

Herman, Peter

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

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

Hyder, D. S. Fahmeed

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)

Jiang, Lihong

Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology

Juchem, Christoph

Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology

Mason, Graeme

Associate 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

Rothman, Douglas

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

Carson, Richard

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