About Our Faculty and Staff

Our MRI research faculty and staff have specialized expertise in many areas, including: 

• Functional neuroimaging studies (fMRI) 

• Diffusion and diffusion tensor imaging 

• Arterial spin labeling perfusion imaging 

• Quantification of cartilage degradation 

• Highly parallel accelerated volumetric imaging 

• Prostate imaging 

• Monitoring cancer therapy 

• Non-invasive assessment of renal function 

• Lymphatic Imaging   

• Myelin Imaging  

Faculty 

• David C. Alsop, PhD, Director, Division of MR Research  

• Abraham F. Bezuidenhout, MD    

• Rafeeque A. Bhadelia, MD    

• Deborah Burstein Mattingly, PhD, Director of Radiology Research  

• Aaron K. Grant, PhD, Director, Preclinical MRI  

• David B. Hackney, MD    

• Rafael Rojas, MD  

• Martin Smith, MD  

• Salil Soman, MD  

• Gopal Varma, PhD  

• Jesse Wei, MD  

Research Fellows 

• Sara Babapour (email)  

• Qianhui Dou (email)  

• Narjes Jaafar (email) 

Staff 

• Lois Gilden, BA, Administrative Associate (email) 

• Nancy Otaluka, BA, Clinical Research Assistant (email)  

• Fotini Papadopoulou, RT R MR, Senior MR Technologist (email) 

• Joseph Yap, BS, Clinical Research Assistant (email)  

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