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Mary Bruno on Advanced Practice and Being in the Right Place

Mary Bruno, MRI technologist on an advanced practice team at NYU Langone Health, talks about patient care, quality improvement, scientific research, and always learning.

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Valentina Mazzoli on Muscle, Aging, and the ‘Magic’ of Imaging

Valentina Mazzoli, imaging scientist searching for biomarkers of muscle health, talks about what makes muscles special, the toll that time can take on them, and the wonder of her first encounter with MRI.

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Marcelo Zibetti on Efficiency, Diverse Perspectives, and Learning from a Book

Marcelo Zibetti, imaging scientist at NYU Langone Health, talks about efficiency in MRI, the value of differing vantage points, and learning by thinking across disciplines.

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Research Brief Visual Story

Cracking Carpal Dynamics: A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside a Wrist

Imaging researchers at NYU Langone Health are getting close to quantifying the dynamics of natural wrist motion, which are not well understood.

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Ivan Kirov on Spectroscopy, Rigor, and How Everyone Hits Their Head Differently

Ivan Kirov, scientist who uses magnetic resonance spectroscopy as a window into the brain, talks about MRS, being methodical, and why drawing clear conclusions can be so challenging.

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Santiago Coelho on Diffusion, Serendipity, and Underexplored Sources

Santiago Coelho, postdoctoral fellow who develops diffusion MRI methods for brain imaging, talks about modeling tissue properties, entering the field by chance, and what he proposes to do next.

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Honor Roll Lab Talk

Artie Shen on Interpreting AI, Learning New Hypotheses, and ‘Fortune Telling’

Yiqiu “Artie” Shen, machine learning researcher who develops artificial intelligence systems for medical imaging, talks about AI’s ability to explain itself, guide discovery, and predict cancer risk.

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Research Brief Visual Story

The Making of a Shared Benchtop Coil Interface for MRI Research

RF coil engineers at NYU Langone Health needed an interface compatible with a new industry standard, so they built one. Now NYU Langone is shipping the devices to other advanced MRI labs.

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Research Brief

Novel Imaging Meets Genomics to Answer Key Question about Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis: Who Will Have It?

PTOA is affecting more people earlier but medicine cannot predict who. The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases is funding NYU Grossman School of Medicine to create an advance warning.

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Event Pulse

We Hosted a Hackathon to Build a Low-Field MRI. Here’s What Happened.

How a moonshot effort to build an open-source MRI scanner from scratch in less than a week played out, and what it means for imaging research at large.