Best wishes go out to Valerie Klein for winning the 2023 Price-Meaney Translational Science Young Investigator Award at ISMRM in Toronto for her work mentored by Bastien Guerin and Lawrence Wald conducted in the MR-PIGs lab. The paper is Klein et al “Measurement of megnetostimulation thresholds in the porcine heart” Magn Reson Med 88(5):2242-2258.

ISMRM Conference & Exhibition – June 3-8, 2023 in Toronto, Canada
The group attended the annual conference in person this year.

+Check it out here: ISMRM2023Presentations

Best wishes go out to Sai Abitha Srinivas for winning the 2022 I.I Rabi Young Investigator Award at ISMRM in London for her work mentored by Clarissa Cooley conducted in the MR-PIGs lab. The paper is Srinivas et al “External Dynamic InTerference Estimation and Removal (EDITER) for low field MRI” Magn Reson Med 87(2) p614 2022. She then went on to the to complete her PhD at Vanderbilt .

Hybrid Conference & Exhibition – May 7-10, 2022 in London, England
The group attended the annual conference both in person and virtually this year.

+Check it out here.

Best wishes go out to Laleh Golestani Rad on her new position as Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Northwestern.

Best wishes go out to Clarissa Cooley for receiving the Claflin Distinguished Scholar Award and for taking over as Chair of ISMRM Study Section on MR Engineering.

Best wishes go out to Alum Laleh Golestani Rad for taking over as Chair of ISMRM Study Section on MR Safety.

Congrats to Jon Polimeni and Alum Saskia Bollmann for their paper in eLife (S. Bellman et al eLife 2022) for getting pulled out as one of “June’s best science images” by Nature.

Congratulations to Jason Stockmann, whose paper on shim arrays for 7T was chosen as a February 2022 “Editor’s pick” at Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

Congrats to Valerie Klein, whose paper reporting Measured Cardiac Magnetiostimulation thresholds in pigs was chosen as a November 2022 “Editor’s pick” at Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

Congratulations to Ehsan Kazemivalipour, whose paper from his PhD work on eigenmode analysis for Tx arrays was chosen as a March 2021 “Editor’s pick” at Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

Best wishes go out to Bo Zhao on his new position as Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin.

Virtual Conference & Exhibition – August 8 – 14, 2020
The group attended the annual conference virtually this year.   #ISMRM2020
Download the list of presentations, posters and awards here.

Congratulations to Kawin Setsompop, PhD for being elected as a Fellow of the ISMRM.

Congratulations to Zijing Dong, whose paper on subspace reconstruction an optimized encoding for EPTI was chosen as a Nov 2020 “Editor’s pick” at Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

The group biked from Davis Square to Walden Pond, where they spent the afternoon relaxing, before headed back…riding a total of 36 miles!

August 5, 2018

#ParisMR18

Faculty and staff attended the Annual ISMRM Conference, June 16-21, 2018. Paris, France

The MRPIGs 2018 ISMRM abstracts are now online. Here is a link to a list of the 90 presentations from the group.

Group authors gave 30 oral presentations and 9 power-pitch presentations.

Congratulations to those who won the “Summa Cum Laude Award” (8 abstracts) and “Magna Cum Laude Award” (10 abstracts)  for highly rated abstracts!

Q&A with Kawin Setsompop and Lawrence Wald

“High-Resolution In Vivo Diffusion Imaging of the Human Brain With Generalized Slice Dithered Enhanced Resolution: Simultaneous Multislice (g-Slider-SMS)

Read this paper in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Highlights  – January 29, 2018

Q&A with Stephen Cauley and Lawrence Wald

“Autocalibrated WAVE-CAIPI Reconstruction: Joint Optimization of k-Space Trajectory and Parallel Imaging Reconstruction”

Check out this paper in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Highlights  – September 29, 2017

Students & Faculty across the lab collaborate on existing faculty research and creative projects.

Summer 2017

We are pleased to announce that MR-PIG’s authors were on ~1% of the ISMRM abstracts.  Review the list here