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November 10, 2020

Book Publication: Safety and Biological Effects in MRI (Shrivastava/Vaughan)

Safety and Biological Effects in MRI (editors: Devashish Shrivastava, Tommy Vaughan) has been published in the UK and will be available worldwide by early January.

August 14, 2020

Keerthi Sravan Ravi Wins Award for Abstract, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2020

BME PhD student Keerthi Sravan Ravi is one of three winners of the 2020 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Interventional MRI Trainee Abstract contest for Intelligent Protocolling for Autonomous MRI. From the abstract: MR Value can be interpreted as the ratio of image contrast to acquisition time. This can be maximised via intelligent protocolling that chooses an optimal combination of pulse sequence parameters.

July 16, 2020

Omega-3s May Protect Brain From Air Pollution

Ka He, MD, ScD and co-authors reported findings from a prospective cohort study among elderly women which suggest that the benefits of long chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on brain aging may include the protection against potential adverse effects of air pollution on white matter volumes, in Erythrocyte omega-3 index, ambient fine particle exposure and brain aging in Neurology.

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NYC- Area Cloud Platform Workshop (Mar 25, 2020)

COVID-19 Update from MR Center Director

Columbia IRB memo regarding research involving in-person participant contact

Some students, faculty, staff, and industry associates of the Columbia MR Research Center, January 2020

Back row, left to right: Assistant Professor Jia Guo (ZMBBI, NYSPI), Dr. Patrick Quarterman (GE Healthcare), Dr. Jaemin Shin (GE Healthcare), Enlin Qian (SEAS), Keerthi Sravan Ravi (SEAS), Associate Professor Christoph Juchem (SEAS, ZMBBI), Nabil Ettenhadi (SEAS), Dr. Martin Gajdosik (SEAS), Yun Shang (SEAS), Xuzhe Zhang (SEAS), Chen Raphael Liu (SEAS, CUIMC), Sabrina Gjerswold-Selleck (SEAS)

Middle row, left to right: Assistant Professor Wei Shen (CUIMC), Dr. Sairam Geethanth (ZMBBI), Pavan Poojar (SEAS), Dr. Maggie Fung (GE Healthcare), Stephen Dashnaw (CUIMC), Gehua Tong (SEAS), Dr. Sebastian Theilenberg (SEAS), Kelley Swanberg (SEAS), Bassam Tabibi (SEAS), Zijian Dong (SEAS), Manny Costa (Siemens Healthineers)

Seated, left to right: Professor Andrew Laine (SEAS, CUIMC), Professor Tommy Vaughan (Director of CMRRC; SEAS, CUIMC, ZMBBI, NKI), Dr. David Gultekin (ZMBBI), Kathleen Durkin (SEAS, CUIMC, ZMBBI), Elsherif Mahmoud (SEAS), Marina Manso Jimeno (SEAS), Marleny Martinez (CUIMC), Nanyan Rosalie Zhu (SEAS)

Not present: Professor Lawrence Schwartz (CUIMC), Professor Rachel Marsh (NYSPI), Professor Shih-fu Chang (SEAS), Professor Scott Small (CUIMC), Professor Niko Kriegeskorte (ZMBBI), Dr. Michael Milham (NKI), Dr. Charles E. Schroeder (NKI), Professor Sachin Jambawalikar (CUIMC), Dr. Ray Lee (ZMBBI).