Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the body. MRI scanners use strong magnetic fields,magnetic field gradients,and radio waves to generate images of the organs in the body. MRI does not involve X-rays or the use of ionizing radiation,which distinguishes it from computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) scans. MRI is a medical application of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) which can also be used for imaging in other NMR applications,such as NMR spectroscopy.
Medical physics deals with the application of the concepts and methods of physics to the prevention,diagnosis and treatment of human diseases with a specific goal of improving human health and well-being. Since 2008,medical physics has been included as a health profession according to International Standard Classification of Occupation of the International Labour Organization.
Elias Zerhouni is an Algerian-born American scientist,radiologist and biomedical engineer.
Jens Frahm is a German biophysicist and physicochemist. He is Research Group Leader of the Biomedical NMR group at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen,Germany.
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB),founded at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2000,is located in Bethesda,Maryland. It is one of 27 institutes and centers that are part of NIH,an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Bruce J. Tromberg is an American photochemist and a leading researcher in the field of biophotonics. He is the director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Before joining NIH,he was Professor of Biomedical Engineering at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and of Surgery at the School of Medicine,University of California,Irvine. He was the principal investigator of the Laser Microbeam and Medical Program (LAMMP),and the Director of the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic at Irvine. He was a co-leader of the Onco-imaging and Biotechnology Program of the NCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at Irvine.
Philip O. Alderson,M.D. served as Dean of Saint Louis University School of Medicine from 2008 through 2016 and as Vice-President for Medical Affairs from 2009 through 2016. He was succeeded in both of these roles by Kevin Behrns,M.D. on January 1,2017. He was formerly James Picker Professor and Chairman of the Department of Radiology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,Radiologist-in-Chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and President of the Medical Board at New York-Presbyterian. Alderson currently is Chair of the Board of Directors of Casa de Salud St Louis,a nonprofit organization providing medical and mental health care to immigrants and the underserved in the St Louis region.
The Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging,usually referred to as just the "Martinos Center," is a major hub of biomedical imaging technology development and translational research. Bruce Rosen is the Director of the Center and Monica Langone is the Administrative Director.
Mark Steven Cohen is an American neuroscientist and early pioneer of functional brain imaging using magnetic resonance imaging. He currently is a Professor of Psychiatry,Neurology,Radiology,Psychology,Biomedical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and the Staglin Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. He is also a performing musician.
Zang-Hee Cho is a Korean neuroscientist who developed the first Ring-PET scanner and the scintillation detector BGO. More recently,Cho developed the first PET-MRI fusion molecular imaging device for neuro-molecular imaging.
Vivian S. Lee is an American radiologist and health care/health technology executive. An Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School and senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital,Lee is the author of the book,The Long Fix:Solving America's Health Care Crisis with Strategies That Work for Everyone. Lee is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Cambridge,Massachusetts. In 2019,she was named No. 11 in Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare and is a frequent speaker at national and international meetings on the applications of big data,AI,and technology in healthcare,leadership and managing change,health equity,and on climate change and health system resilience.
Huntington Medical Research Institutes (HMRI) is an independent,nonprofit,applied medical research organization in Pasadena,California. The Institutes conduct laboratory and clinical work for the development of technology used in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. The Molecular Medicine programs,such as cancer genetics,molecular neurology,molecular pathology and tissue engineering,were conducted at the 99 North El Molino Avenue facility until April 2018. The Neural Engineering program is conducted at the 734 Fairmount Avenue building directly adjacent to Huntington Hospital. The Advanced Imaging Laboratory is located nearby at 10 Pico Street,as is the Liver Center at 660 South Fair Oaks Avenue. A new 35,000 square foot laboratory building for HMRI opened at 686 South Fair Oaks Avenue,Pasadena in April 2018. Programs in the new facility include neurolological and cardiovascular studies,as well as preeclampsia research.
Bruce Rosen is an American physicist and radiologist and a leading expert in the area of functional neuroimaging. His research for the past 30 years has focused on the development and application of physiological and functional nuclear magnetic resonance techniques,as well as new approaches to combine functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data with information from other modalities such as positron emission tomography (PET),magnetoencephalography (MEG) and noninvasive optical imaging. The techniques his group has developed to measure physiological and metabolic changes associated with brain activation and cerebrovascular insult are used by research centers and hospitals throughout the world.
Ferenc Andras Jolesz was a Hungarian-American physician and scientist best known for his research on image guided therapy,the process by which information derived from diagnostic imaging is used to improve the localization and targeting of diseased tissue to monitor and control treatment during surgical and interventional procedures. He pioneered the field of Magnetic Resonance Imaging-guided interventions and introduced of a variety of new medical procedures based on novel combinations of imaging and therapy delivery.
James S. Hyde was an American biophysicist. He held the James S. Hyde chair in Biophysics at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) where he specialized in magnetic resonance instrumentation and methodology development in two distinct areas:electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). He is senior author of the widely cited 1995 paper by B.B. Biswal et al. reporting the discovery of resting state functional connectivity (fcMRI) in the human brain. He also served as Director of the National Biomedical EPR Center,a Research Resource supported by the National Institutes of Health. He was author of more than 400 peer-reviewed papers and review articles and held 35 U.S. Patents. He was recognized by Festschrifts in both EPR and fcMRI.
Ron Kikinis is an American physician and scientist best known for his research in the fields of imaging informatics,image guided surgery,and medical image computing. He is a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School. Kikinis is the founding director of the Surgical Planning Laboratory in the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital,in Boston,Massachusetts. He is the vice-chair for Biomedical Informatics Research in the Department of Radiology.
Elliot R. McVeigh is a Professor of Bioengineering,Medicine and Radiology at the University of California,San Diego (UCSD). His research utilises low dose CT imaging and MR imaging techniques to identify those people at substantially higher risk for heart attacks.
Jonathan S. Lewin is an American neuroradiologist specializing in medical imaging research with an emphasis on the investigation,development,and translation of new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques. He is the former executive vice president for health affairs (EVPHA) and executive director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center for Emory University,and former President,CEO,and chairman of the board of Emory Healthcare. He currently serves as professor of radiology,biomedical engineering,and neurosurgery in the Emory School of Medicine and as professor of health policy and management in the Rollins School of Public Health.
Daniel Kevin Sodickson is an American physicist and an expert in the field of biomedical imaging. A past president and gold medalist of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine,he is credited with foundational work in parallel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI),in which distributed arrays of detectors are used to gather magnetic resonance images at previously inaccessible speeds. Sodickson is an elected Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors. He currently serves as Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Radiology at New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine,as Director of the department's Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging,as Principal Investigator of the Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research,and as Co-Director of NYU's Tech4Health Institute.
Sanjay Rajagopalan is the Herman Hellerstein Professor of Medicine and Chief Scientific and Medical Officer at the Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute,University Hospitals and Professor Medicine at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland,Ohio. He holds secondary appointments in the Case Western Reserve University Departments of Physiology,Radiology and Biomedical Engineering. Much of his research has been on using technology to guide the detection and treatment of heart disease and more recently on the impact of environmental exposures and climate change on cardiovascular health.
