Elfar Adalsteinsson received his bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering (EE) from the University of Iceland in 1989, and masters and PhD degrees in EE from Stanford University in 1991 and 1995. In the summer of 1995 he joined the Lucas Center for MRS Imaging at Stanford University, Department of Radiology, as a Research Associate, and in 2000, as a Senior Research Engineer. He joined the MIT faculty and the Research Laboratory of Electronics in 2004 as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and MIT's Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Professor Adalsteinsson's research area is medical imaging with magnetic resonance, focusing on methods for acquisition, reconstruction and processing of in vivo imaging data. His interests include techniques for efficient sampling and spatial encoding of spectroscopic magnetic resonance data, whereby small signals, originating, for example, specifically from neurons in the brain, yield information not observed with conventional structural imaging. Applications of these and related methods have included a study of the progression of Alzheimer's disease and characterization of Multiple Sclerosis.

Shao Ying Huang
Post Doctorate Fellow
shaoying@mit.edu | (CV)

Shao Ying is doing electromagnetic modeling and experiments for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in high field systems. Her expertise includes electromagnetic modeling using numerical methods and analytical approaches.

She has rich experiences on computational electromagnetic using integral equation methods, EM modeling and designs for surface plasmonic circuits and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), designs of microwave circuit components.

She likes jogging, hiking, traveling, photographing, and cooking.

Arlene is the administrative assistant for the Magnetic Resonance
Imaging Group. She provides administrative support to Prof. Elfar Adalsteinsson and several graduate students.

Obaidah Abuhashem

Undergraduate Student

ohashem@mit.edu

Obaidah is an undergrad Student majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and minoring in Economics. He joined the MRI group in January 2011. His research interest includes medical images reconstruction and MRI imaging acceleration.

Berkin received his B.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Physics from Bogazici University in 2008, and his S.M. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2010. He joined the MRI group in the Research Laboratory of Electronics in February 2010, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree.

At MIT, he worked on fast object detection algorithms with Prof. Berthold Horn and Dr. Ichiro Masaki which concluded with his S.M. thesis.

After switching to MRI from computer vision for his doctoral degree, his main research interests include developing image reconstruction algorithms to speed up data acquisition, magnetic susceptibility mapping and artifact reduction in spectroscopic imaging.

Berkin is supported by an MIT/CIMIT Fellowship, and he is the recipient of an MIT-DuPont Presidential Fellowship.

Audrey graduated from Stanford University in 2008 with B.S. degrees in
Electrical Engineering and Biological Sciences. She completed her S.M.
degree with the MRI Group in 2010. Audrey is supported by the National
Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She is interested in
quantification of venous oxygen saturation (Yv) and the cerebral metabolic
rate of oxygen (CMRO2) in human brains using MRI. Her project includes
development of a technique called PROM (Phase-based Regional Oxygen
Metabolism) and application to functional imaging and clinical studies in
patients with multiple sclerosis. In her spare time, Audrey plans events for
the EECS Graduate Student Association and served as co-president during
2010.

S.M. Thesis: "Phase-based regional oxygen metabolism in magnetic resonance imaging at high field" [pdf]

Trina received her bachelors degree from Duke University in 2005 and masters degree from MIT in 2009. She is a recipient of Singapore's A*STAR BS-PhD National Science Scholarship from 2002-2010 and joined A*STAR's Institute for Infocomm Research upon graduation from Duke in 2005. At MIT, Trina's work involves fast spiral spectroscopic imaging with 2D spectroscopy sequences e.g. CT-PRESS. She in interested in improving the detection and quantitation of metabolites and works to apply such techniques in clinical settings. She enjoys jogging, dancing, learning languages and traveling.

S.M. Thesis: "Detection of brain metabolites in magnetic resonance spectroscopy" [pdf]

Joonsung Lee
Alumni: Ph.D. 2011
joonsung@mit.edu

Ph.D. Thesis: "Excitation and Readout Designs for High Field MR
Spectroscopic Imaging" [pdf]

Lohith Kini
Graduate Student
lkini@mit.edu

Short bio / research interests to be added.

M.Eng. Thesis: "Fast simulation of E1, B1 and Specific Absorption Rate for 7T MRI with the use of graphical processors" [pdf]

S.M. Thesis: "Accuracy of pulsed arterial spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging in the human brain : tag width and timing effects" [pdf]

Ph.D. Thesis: "Magnetic resonance imaging of the cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (CMRO2)" [pdf]

Currently, finishing M3/M4 years at Harvard Medical School.

Padraig Cantillon Murphy
Alumni: Ph.D. 2008

padraig@alum.mit.edu | (homepage)

Ph.D. Thesis: "On the Dynamics of Magnetic Fluids in Magnetic Resonance Imaging" [pdf]

Currently, Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University College Cork, Ireland.

Joseph Cheng
Alumni: M.Eng. 2007

joseph.cheng@alum.mit.edu

M.Eng. Thesis: "Gradient Characterization in Magnetic Resonance Imaging" [pdf]

Currently, Ph.D. student at Stanford University Dept of EE.

Ph.D. Thesis: "Design Algorithms for Parallel Transmission in Magnetic Resonance Imaging" [pdf]

Currently, Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School/MGH.

Ph.D. Thesis: "Improvements in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Excitation Pulse Design" [pdf]

Currently, High Frequency Trader at GETCO.

Jessica Bernier
Graduate Student
jbernier@mit.edu

Jessica graduated from the University of Arizona in 2009 with B.S. degrees in Physics and Mathematics.  She is aiming to complete her S.M. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2011.  Her current research focus is the numerical simulation of electromagnetic fields generated in parallel RF transmission (pTx) coils in 7T MRI systems.

When she is not in the lab, Jessica enjoys ballroom dancing, both socially as the Treasurer of the MIT Ballroom Dance Club and competitively with the MIT Ballroom Dance Team.

Borjan Gagoski received his BS degree with distinct honors from RPI in 2004. He came to MIT in the Fall of 2004, finishing his MS degree at 2006, and PhD in 2011. His early research included the implementation of fast encoding schemes for spectroscopic imaging on Siemens MR platforms. During the last several years of his PhD, he was involved in the development of RF pulse designs using parallel RF transmission (pTx) at 7T MRI systems, for the purpose of improved spectral-spatial mitigation used in chemical shift imaging (CSI) applications. His current work as a postdoctoral associate still mainly focuses on the improvement of the excitation part of a pTx experiment. In addition, some of his time is also spent on applying the fast CSI encoding readouts in clinical settings at 3T, obtaining volumetric metabolites' maps on patient populations diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, X-link adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) and brain tumors.

Borjan comes from Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. He likes to spend his free time playing tennis, hiking and skiing.

S.M. Thesis: "Fast magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging using RF coil arrays" [pdf]

Ph.D. Thesis: "Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging using Parallel Transmission at 7 Tesla" [pdf]