Imaging Modality or Technique | Investigator's Name | Specialty Area | Research Topics |
MRI, MRSI, optical imaging | Zaver Bhujwalla | ICMIC | Molecular imaging of hypoxia, angiogenesis Analysing hypoxia and hypoxia inducible factors HIF-1 - hypoxia response element to target cancer cells through choline kinaze inhibition. |
MRI | David Bluemke Jens Vogel-Clausen | Cardiovascular, myocardial function | Functional assessment of myocardium, contrast agents |
MRI | Bruce Wasserman | Atherosclerosis and Plaque Imaging | Quantitation and characterization of atherosclerotic plaque |
MRI | Peter van Zijl, Michael Kraut | Functional MRI | Functional assessment of brain and neurological processes |
MRI | Susumu Mori | Fiber tracking and Diffusion Tensor MRI | White matter assessment of brain and neurological processes |
MRSI | Peter Barker | Spectroscopy | Tools for spectroscopy analysis |
MRSI | Katarzyna Macura | Prostate cancer | MRSI, DWI, DCE-MRI in prostate cancer diagnosis and therapy response |
MRI | Ihab Kamel | Hepatic malignancies | Monitoring therapy response |
MRI/CT/SPECT | Dara Kraitchman | Myocardial disease | SPECT/CT imaging for dynamic tracking of the biodistribution and movement of stem cells |
PET/Nuclear | Richard Wahl | Radiopharmaceuticals | Radiopharmaceuticals for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer |
PET/Nuclear | Dean Wong | Neuropsychiatry | Dopamine receptors; dopamine stabilizers; antipsychotic drug dosage determination |
PET/Nuclear | Martin Pomper | Small Animal Imaging Resource Program (SAIRP) Radiopharmaceutical development for PET and SPECT | Synthesing small-molecule PET and SPECT tracers for PSMA in prostate cancer Using ligands for inflammation/infection imaging. |
CT | Elliot Fishman | 3D visualization | Surgical planning |
| CT | Mahadevappa Mahesh | Radiation safety, medical physics and patient dosimetry | Radiation dose and risks and image quality in pediatric MDCT |
Image Guided Interventions | Jeff Geschwind | Chemoembolization | Treatment response |
Image Guided Interventions | Clifford Weiss
| Biliary interventions | Imaging guidance and treatment response |
Image Analysis MRI/MRSI | Michael Jacobs | Breast cancer | Novel multiparametric MR assessment New analysis tools for MR imaging |
Image Analysis and Visualization | Dzung Pham | Segmentation of medical images | New analysis tools for MR imaging |
Image Analysis | Ronald Ouwerwerk | Breast cancer | Sodium imaging in breast cancer |
Radiological Physics | Ben Tsui | ROC analysis | Evaluation of imaging technologies |
Engineering/Surgical Simulations/Devices | Jonathan Lewin | I4M surgical simulation project | Surgical simulation |
Engineering/Robotics | Louis L. Whitcomb | Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology CISST | Image-Guided Therapy, Robot-Assisted Surgical Interventions |
