Biomedical Imaging Core Facility

3.0 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility

Doug Ballon, Ph.D.	Associate Professor	746-5679
Jonathan Dyke, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor	746-5781
Henning Voss, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor	746-5781
Katherine Kolbert,M.S.	Applications Programmer	746-5894
Josefino Borja, RT(R)(MR)	Senior MRI Technologist	746-5850
Peter Capitelli, M.S.	Health Physicist	746-5756
Muc Du	Administrator	746-5883

Facility Description:

The 3.0 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Facility supports state-of-the-art techniques for imaging human subjects including functional brain imaging, white matter tractography, perfusion imaging, whole-body scanning, and proton spectroscopic imaging. In addition, facilities are available to support animal imaging. The Applications Development Laboratory supports imaging projects with pulse program development and imaging processing tools tailored to investigators needs.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Watts R, Liston C, Niogi S, Ulug AM. Fiber tracking using magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging and its applications to human brain development. Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev. 2003;9(3):168-77.
Dyke, J.P., Zakian, K.Z., Spees, W.M., Matei, C., Chen, Y., Mao, X., Shungu , D.C. , Koutcher, J.A. Metabolic Response of the CWR22 Prostate Tumor Xenograft Following 20 Gy Radiation Studied by 1H Spectroscopic Imaging, Clinical Cancer Research, October, 2003. (In-Press)
Filippi CG, Lin DD, Tsiouris AJ, Watts R, Packard AM, Heier LA, Ulug AM. Diffusion-Tensor MR Imaging in Children with Developmental Delay: Preliminary Findings. Radiology. 2003 Aug 14.
Wang Y, Truong TN, Yen C, Bilecen D, Watts R, Trost DW, Prince MR. Quantitative evaluation of susceptibility and shielding effects of nitinol, platinum, cobalt-alloy, and stainless steel stents. Magn Reson Med. 2003 May;49(5):972-6.
Morris EA, Liberman L, Ballon DJ, Robson M, Abramson AF, Heerdt A, Dershaw DD. MRI of occult breast carcinoma in a high-risk population. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2003 Sep;181(3):619-26.
Dyke JP, Panicek DM, Healey JH, Meyers PA, Huvos AG, Schwartz LH, Thaler HT, Tofts PS, Gorlick R, Koutcher JA, Ballon D. Osteogenic and Ewing sarcomas: estimation of necrotic fraction during induction chemotherapy with dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging. Radiology. 2003 Jul;228(1):271-8.
Xu S, Gade TP, Matei C, Zakian K, Alfieri AA, Hu X, Holland EC, Soghomonian S, Tjuvajev J, Ballon D, Koutcher JA. In vivo multiple-mouse imaging at 1.5 T. Magn Reson Med. 2003 Mar;49(3):551-7.
Kamal AK, Dyke JP, Katz JM, Liberato B, Filippi CG, Zimmerman RD, Ulug AM. Temporal evolution of diffusion after spontaneous supratentorial intracranial hemorrhage. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2003 May;24(5):895-901.
Kim J, Prince MR, Zabih R, Bezanson J, Watts R, Erel HE, Wang Y. Automatic selection of mask and arterial phase images for temporally resolved MR digital subtraction angiography. Magn Reson Med. 2002 Dec;48(6):1004-10.
Narayanan JT, Watts R, Haddad N, Labar DR, Li PM, Filippi CG. Cerebral activation during vagus nerve stimulation: a functional MR study. Epilepsia. 2002 Dec;43(12):1509-14.
Morris EA, Liberman L, Dershaw DD, Kaplan JB, LaTrenta LR, Abramson AF, Ballon DJ. Preoperative MR imaging-guided needle localization of breast lesions. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2002 May;178(5):1211-20.