| Lori Arlinghaus |
| Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering |
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E-mail Address: lori.arlinghaus@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-322-6175 |
Office: MCN AA-1101
Lori is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in 2002 and her M.S. from Vanderbilt University in 2005. Her primary research interest involves the development of new methods to detect group differences in diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).
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| Richard Baheza |
| Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering |
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richard.baheza@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-343-4796 |
Office: MCN AA-3107
Richard Baheza has been at Vanderbilt since 2003. He received his B. Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (UAM), Azcapotzalco Campus, and an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at the UAM, Iztapalapa Campus where he earned the merit medal (the equivalent of graduating magna cum laude).
He is currently a graduate student in Biomedical Engineering.
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| Ann Choe |
| Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering |
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E-mail Address: ann.s.choe@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-343-8392 |
Office: MCN AA-3111
Ann is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She received her B.E. in Computer Engineering and Math in 2004 and her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering in 2007, both from Vanderbilt University. She is currently working with Dr. Adam Anderson and her primary research interest is validating and analyzing information from diffusion tensor MRI (DTI) in the central nervous system. She is especially interested in finding out how the microstructural environment of white matter, such as fiber coherence, axonal density, and myelin content, defines and characterizes information in DTI and HARDI (High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging).
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| Jared Guthrie Cobb |
| Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering |
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E-mail Address: jared.g.cobb@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-343-4796 |
Office: MCN AA-3107
Jared Cobb is a third year graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and has been a member of the VUIIS since August 2006. His master's work examines myocardial tissue properties with high-field MRI, under the tutelage of Dr. Cynthia Paschal. His PhD work investigates the creation of multi-parametric maps in mice using high-field MRI. Under the supervision of Dr. John Gore, advanced statistical techniques will be used to correlate disease states to these maps. Jared received his BE in Biomedical Engineering and Music from Vanderbilt in 2002.
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| Daniel Colvin |
| Graduate Student, Physics and Astronomy |
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E-mail Address: daniel.c.colvin@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-343-0466 |
Office: MCN AA-1112
Daniel is currently a graduate student in the department of physics and astronomy. He received his B.S. in astronomy and M.S. in physics, both from the University of Florida. He joined the VUIIS in the summer of 2003 and is currently working with Dr. Adam Anderson and Dr. John Gore on various diffusion-related studies, including high angular resolution diffusion (HARD) imaging and diffusion spectroscopy.
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| Jeff Dendy |
| Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering |
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E-mail Address: jeffrey.dendy@vanderbilt.edu |
Office: MCN R-1104
Dr. Dendy is currently a Fellow in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, as well as a PhD student in the
Department of Biomedical Engineering. His primary area of research involves analysis of Blood Oxygen Level
Dependent (BOLD) signals obtained from the myocardium and how alterations in myocardial physiology affect the
signal. He obtained a BE in Biomedical Engineering in 1996 and his MD in 2000, both at Vanderbilt. He completed
his residency in Internal Medicine in 2003 at Vanderbilt University as well.
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| Richard Dortch |
| Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering |
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E-mail Address: richard.dortch@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-343-0471 |
Office: MCN AA-1101
Richard Dortch has been a member of VUIIS since January 2004. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2002. In his current research, he aims to develop 3D contrast-enhanced imaging techniques capable of assessing myelin content in whole rat brain ex vivo. Several myelin-specific MR contrast agents are currently being investigated as a means to selectively enhance myelin water. In addition, non-specific MR contrast agents are being investigated as a means of optimizing imaging protocols with respect to SNR efficiency.
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| Mariam Eapen |
| Graduate Student, Neuroscience |
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E-mail Address: mariam.eapen@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-322-8430 |
Office: MCN AA-3111
Mariam Eapen is a second year graduate student in the department of neuroscience and has been with the Imaging Institute since 2006. She is working with Dr. John Gore and faculty in the Vanderbilt Law School to study aspects of human decision making. Her current research involves using neuroimaging to explore the neural correlates of risk assessment in the human brain.
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| Zhaoying "Natalie" Han |
| Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering |
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E-mail Address: natalie.han@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-343-6259 |
Office: Featheringill Hall 369
Natalie received her M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing in 2005. She is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and has been a member of VUIIS since 2006. Her advisor is Dr. Benoit Dawant. Her research involves non-rigid registration, MRI atlas generation, deformation based morphometry, and shape analysis on MRI data of children with math difficulties and children with Williams Syndrome. |
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| Paul Hilt |
| Graduate Student |
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E-mail Address: paul.j.hilt@vanderbilt.edu |
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Paul is currently studying the effects of oxygen inhalation on T1 for myocardial tissue and arterial blood at 3.0T. T1 quantification scans are done in a single breath-hold using the Modified Look-Locker Inversion Recovery (MOLLI) technique. A shorter alternative to the published 17 heart cycle MOLLI technique is being evaluated for T1 accuracy and variation. |
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| Xin Hong |
| Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering |
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E-mail Address: xin.hong@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-322-8835 |
Office: MCN AA-1112
Xin is a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and has been a member of VUIIS since 2004. Her advisor is Dr. Adam Anderson. She received her B.S. in Computer Science from Sun Yat-sen University in China and an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt. Her current research involves analysis of the High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI) data of the human brain and its clinical applications in white matter diseases. One project involves developing an advanced analysis algorithm for the HARDI data in order to get accurate estimates of neural fiber properties, including the intrinsic diffusivities and orientations. Another project is about the spatial normalization of HARDI data, which is critical to make comparisons between subjects. The third project involves the the analysis of group differences in white matter between patients with schizophrenia and normal controls. |
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| Adam Horch |
| Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering |
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| Vaibhav Janve |
| Graduate Student, Physics and Astronomy |
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| E-mail Address: vaibhav.a.janve@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-322-0030 |
Office: VUH B-165
Vaibhav Janve is a second-year graduate student in the department of Physics and Astronomy. He is working for Dr. Daniel Gochberg on magnetization transfer imaging. He is currently working on a project involving myelin quantification in small animal models.
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| Christopher W. Jarrett |
| Graduate Student, Chemical and Physical Biology |
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E-mail Address: christopher.w.jarrett@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-322-8430 |
Office: MCN AA-3111
Chris Jarrett earned his Bachelors degree in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in December 2005, and he expects to receive his Masters of Engineering in BME from Vanderbilt in the spring of 2008. Currently his research involves the development of a phantom to be used for quality assurance of the in-house Siemens Imtek MicroCAT II. This phantom will allow VUIIS to maintain high-quality images while providing a tool for determining imaging protocols on the microCT. He is also researching ways to improve Photoacoustic Tomography.
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| Ha-Kyu Jeong |
| Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering |
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E-mail Address: ha-kyu.jeong@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-343-8392 |
Office: MCN AA-3111
Ha-Kyu received an M.S degree in Korea and is in his second year at Vanderbilt and VUIIS. His research project is related to improved imaging of brain white matter using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) in the 3 and 7 Tesla human magnetic resonance imaging environments. For accurate fiber tracking using DTI, the fiber directional uncertainty is characterized and its relevance to diffusion encoding orientation as well as the number of directions have been studied. This study provides an understanding of the coherence between the major/minor axis of fiber directional dispersion and secondary/tertiary eigenvector of a diffusion tensor. For representing multiple fibers within a single voxel, HARDI encoding and spherical deconvolution has been adopted as a Fiber ORientation Estimated using Continuous Axially Symmetric Tensors (FORECAST) model. Reliable estimation of fiber orientation distribution (FOD) function and diffusion properties have been studied with Tikhonov regularization in monkey and/or human data with field inhomogeneity correction, especially in the 7 Tesla MR scanner.
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| Lindsay Johnson |
| Graduate Student |
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| Santosh Katwal |
| Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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E-mail Address: santosh.b.katwal@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-322-0030 |
Office: VUH B-165
Santosh Katwal received his MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 2004. He has been a member of VUIIS since May 2007. He is mainly interested in image analysis and mathematical tools for imaging. His current research includes a study of connectivity in the human brain with a primary focus on functional connectivity. His primary advisor is Dr. John Gore and he also works closely with Dr. Baxter Rogers.
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| Arman Kussainov |
| Graduate Student, Physics and Astronomy |
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E-mail Address: arman.s.kussainov@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-322-0030 |
Office: VUH B-165
Arman's research focuses on the study of Intermolecular Multiple Quantum Coherence
(iMOC) phenomena, including practical imaging and spectroscopy experiments showing
the advantages of the iMOC contrast mechanism. He received both a BS and an MS from Kazakh
State University and an MA from the Kazakh State Academy of Management.
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| Craig Lorang |
| Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering |
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E-mail Address: craig.t.lorang@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-322-8430 |
Office: MCN AA-3111
Craig Lorang is a graduate student in Biomedical Engineering under the direction of Dr. Adam Anderson. His current research investigates using diffusion tensor imaging to assess white matter integrity in children with math difficulties.
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| Mary Loveless |
| Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering |
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E-mail Address:
mary.loveless@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-343-0471 |
Office: MCN AA-1101
Mary Loveless has been with the VUIIS since 2006 and the Cancer Imaging Group since 2007. She is under the advisement of Dr. Thomas Yankeelov in the area of Cancer Imaging, and her Master’s work involved the development of a 3D angiography technique using high resolution ultrasound. Her current work is in the area of multi-modal molecular imaging to assess the efficacy of anti-cancer treatments.
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| Ben McDonald |
| Graduate Student, Physics & Astronomy |
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E-mail Address: ben.mcdonald@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-343-0466 |
Office: MCN AA-1112
Ben studies and develops small animal SPECT systems with Dr. Todd Peterson. High spatial resolution silicon detectors are the focus of their efforts in improving nuclear imaging and possibly combining SPECT with small animal MRI. Ben hails from Washington state, where he studied applied physics and computer science at Whitworth University, graduating in 2004. In 2007 he received an M.S. in physics from Vanderbilt.
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| Jason Moore |
| Graduate Student |
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E-mail Address: jason.e.moore@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-322-8430 |
Office: MCN AA-3111
Jay Moore received a B.S. in physics from the University of Washington and an M.S. in physics from Vanderbilt. His current research includes an MRI exploration of the pulmonary perfusion distribution in healthy human subjects, the implementation of MRI techniques for brain perfusion imaging, and the modeling and quantification of radio frequency field inhomogeneities inherent in ultra-high field MRI.
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| Nathan Mutic |
| Graduate Student |
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| Allen Newton |
| Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering |
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E-mail Address: allen.t.newton@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-322-6175 |
Office: MCN AA-1101
Allen Newton has been a member of VUIIS since January 2004. His advisor is Dr. John Gore, and he also works closely with Dr. Victoria Morgan. He studies connectivity in the human brain and is particularly interested in functional connectivity, the interaction between functionally-related regions of the human brain. Measuring functional connectivity noninvasively is a topic enjoying increased interest from the research community, and Allen is working on the development of better techniques to measure these interactions with fMRI. This is being approached in three ways. First, new measures of functional connectivity in steady state fMRI data are being developed with special attention paid to nonlinear and phase sensitivity. Second, new techniques are being developed for using EEG measurements to inform the calculation of functional connectivity in fMRI data when the electrical measurements are made simultaneously with the relevant imaging. Finally, characterization of the basic signals underlying functional connectivity measurement is being done through evaluation of partial voluming effects using ultra high field (7T) fMRI data.
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| Subechhya Pradhan |
| Graduate Student, Physics and Astronomy |
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E-mail Address: subechhya.pradhan@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-343-0417 |
Office: MCN AA-1101
Subechhya Pradhan is from Nepal and is a graduate student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. She received he B.A. in Physics from Hiram College in Hiram, OH in 2005. She is working on the quantification of metabolites in the brain using Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.
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| John Sexton |
| Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering |
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E-mail Address: john.sexton@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-343-0466 |
Office: MCN AA-1112
John Sexton is a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
and has been a member of VUIIS since August 2004. He works with MRI and fMRI,
with a focus on applications and novel techniques. He received his bachelor of
science in Physics from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN in May 2004.
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| Elizabeth Ann Stringer |
| Graduate Student, Neuroscience |
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E-mail Address: elizabeth.a.stringer@vanderbilt.edu |
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Office: MCN AA-1112
Elizabeth is a graduate student in the Department of Neuroscience and has been a member of the VUIIS since the summer of 2005. She is investigating the neural processing of pain, with particular interest in how genetic factors influence interindividual variability in the perception of pain. She received a BS in Physics from the University of the South in Sewanee, TN in 2003.
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| Christopher Wargo |
| Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering |
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E-mail Address: chris.wargo@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-343-0466 |
Office: MCN AA-1112
Chris Wargo is a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and has been a
member of VUIIS since August 2004. He works for Dr. Calum Avison on a parallel MRI project, with a
focus on the application of the SENSE method for animal imaging. Chris received a BS in Biomedical
Engineering and a BA in Astronomy from Boston University in 1998.
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| Jennifer Whisenant |
| Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering |
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Office: MCN AA-1112
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| Heather Whitney |
| Graduate Student, Physics |
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E-mail Address: heather.whitney@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-322-6175 |
Office: MCN AA-1101
Heather Barker Whitney is a graduate student in the Department of Physics and has been a
member of VUIIS since January 2004. She works on the polymer gel dosimeter project, with a focus on
magnetization transfer studies and applications of the dosimeters. She received her bachelor of science in
Physics and Performing & Visual Arts from King College in Bristol, TN in 2003, and master of science in
Physics from Vanderbilt University in 2006.
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| Junzhong Xu |
| Graduate Student, Physics |
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E-mail Address: junzhong.xu@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-343-8392 |
Office: MCN AA-3111
Junzhong Xu is a graduate student in the Department of Physics, where
he studies the simulation of diffusion in tissues, and he has been a member of VUIIS
since April 2004. He received his Bachelor of Science in Optics (1999) and Master
of Science in Optics (2002), both from the University of Science and Technology
of China.
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| Qing Xu |
| Graduate Student, Electric Engineering |
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E-mail Address: qing.xu.1@vanderbilt.edu |
| Office Phone: 615-322-0030 |
Office: VUH B165
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