ELFAR ADALSTEINSSON
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Professor of Health Sciences and Technology,
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Room 36–766
Cambridge, MA 02139
elfar@mit.edu
617.324.3597
Administrative Assistant
Megumi Masuda-Loos
megumima@mit.edu
617.324.3542—Tel
Room 36–776
Professor Elfar Adalsteinsson is a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Professor Adalsteinsson conducts research on medical imaging with magnetic resonance, focusing on optimal 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 include a study of the progression of Alzheimer’s disease and characterization of Multiple Sclerosis.
Professor Adalsteinsson received a B.S. in 1989 from the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1991
and 1995, respectively, from Stanford University. From 1995 until his arrival in RLE, Elfar was with the Lucas Center at Stanford.
Keywords
and special encoding, low-level signals, neuroscience, chemical shift imaging,
Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis