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ALMA - The Advanced Lab for MRI and Acoustics
Director
Bruno Madore
Director, ALMA lab
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School

Bruno obtained a BSc in Physics from Laval University in Québec City, and a PhD in medical biophysics from the University of Toronto. He also performed postdoctoral studies at Stanford University, in fast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

His main research expertise lies in the development of novel acquisition and image reconstruction strategies for Magnetic Resonance Imaging. He also has strong interest in ultrasound imaging, and in combining it with MRI. More generally, much of the work in the ALMA lab involves encoding useful information that relates to relaxation, dynamic motion, diffusion and/or thermometry into MR or ultrasound signals in novel ways. This information is then recovered at the image reconstruction stage, to generate images that are better and/or richer in terms of information content than what would otherwise have been the case.

bruno@bwh.harvard.edu

Bruno is Deputy Editor and ‘Senior Deputy Editor for Physics and Techniques’ for the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (JMRI), one of two official journals of the ISMRM. He was awarded a ‘Distinguished Investigator Award’ by the Academy of Radiology Research in 2016, and a ‘Young Investigators’ Moore Award’ by the ISMRM in 1999.

Faculty
Stephan Maier
Dean Darnell
Cheng Chieh Cheng
Hiroto Hatabu
Marie Foley Kijewski
Evangelia Kaza
Georgeta
Lei Qin
Jeff Guenette
Jeremy Bredfeldt
George J.-y. Chiou
Jeff Duryea
Collaborators
Devin Willey
Devin obtained a BA in Physics from University of Virginia in 2016, and an MSc and PhD in Medical Physics from Duke University in 2022. Her PhD research involved developing novel techniques to recover signal for functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and developing hardware to facilitate hybrid MRI and ultrasound imaging. For her Ph.D. work, she has received a Magna Cum Laude Merit award and a Summa Cum Laude Merit award from the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), and a Gold medal award from the ISMRM Motion Correction Study Group.
Olivia Jo Dickinson
Olivia Jo graduated from Providence College in 2021 with a BS in Applied Physics and a BA in mathematics. She is now a PhD student at Duke University working in the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center (BIAC) under the advisory of Dr. Trong-Kha Truong and Dr. Dean Darnell. Her work is mainly focused on hardware advancements for wireless Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Additionally, Olivia has been working with Dr. Devin Willey on advancements for wireless motion monitoring using integrated RF wireless (iRFW) coils and an MR compatible ultrasound-based system, in collaboration with Dr. Bruno Madore and the ALMA lab.

olivia.dickinson@duke.edu

Yajun Li
Lawrence P. Panych
Larry joined the research staff of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1993 after graduating from the Radiological Sciences Program in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at MIT. His major area of research have been in MRI safety, and in the development of real-time adaptive methods for dynamic MR. He has now retired, but continues to collaborate with the ALMA lab.

lppanych@gmail.com

Frank Preiswerk
Frank obtained an MSc in Computer Science in 2009 and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 2013, both from University of Basel in Switzerland. From 2014 to 2018 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS), and became faculty member in 2018. In 2017, Frank was awarded the Young Investigator Cum Laude Award of the ISMRM for his work on “Hybrid MRI-Ultrasound Acquisitions, and Scannerless Real-Time Imaging”. In 2019, he left BWH and HMS to pursue exciting new opportunities at Amazon related to machine learning.

frank.preiswerk@gmail.com

Chang-Sheng Mei
Sanjay Yengul
Paul Barbone
Sandy Wells
PeiHsin
Marcelo Di Carli
Sandra Duran
Clare Tempany
Scott Hoge
Tzu-Cheng Chao
Steve Moore
Past visiting students
Gabriela Belsley
Jiarui Cai
Shenyan Zong
Yaofei Ada Wang
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