CAI2R is a part of the Center for Biomedical Imaging in the Department of Radiology at NYU Langone Health.  For patient care, see imaging services.

Visiting Scientists and Scientist Envoys

CAI2R offers visiting scientists the multidisciplinary experience essential for effective development and translation of new technologies.

We also dispatch scientist envoys to train peers at faraway institutions.

Hands-on Experience in Translational Research

The visiting scientists program embeds participants in our unique translational research teams. Visitors join interdisciplinary groups of experts engaged in project- and patient-focused technical development.

Successful translational research teams combine breadth and depth of expertise with rich and frequent communication. This collaboration model leads to faster prototype iteration, shorter development cycles, and greater positive impacts on clinical practice and patient care.

Visiting Scientists

  • Alessandro Palombit, MS
    Student
    🇮🇹 University of Padua, Italy
    from January 2018 to July 2018
    Comparison and analysis of GRASP reconstruction technique for abdominal DCE-MRI
    Martijn Cloos, PhD; Riccardo Lattanzi, PhD
  • Jing Li
    Visiting research scholar
    🇨🇳 Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
    from January 2018 to July 2018
    Analysis of high-resolution MRI data of ischemic brain injury
    Yulin Ge, MD; Jiangyang Zhang, PhD
  • Ioannis Georgakis, MS
    Student
    🇷🇺 Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia
    from February 2018 to June 2018
    Optimal design of radiofrequency coils for MRI
    Riccardo Lattanzi, PhD
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    Visiting research scholar
    🇧🇷 Escola Superior de Ciencias da Santa Casa de Misericordia de Vitoria, Brazil
    from January 2018 to December 2018
    Integration of PET-MRI, FMRI and MR fingerprinting
    Yvonne Lui, MD; Tim Shepherd, MD, PhD
  • Francesco Grussu, PhD
    🇬🇧 University College London, UK
    from September 2017 to November 2017
    Denoising of diffusion MRI for human spinal cord
    Els Fieremans, PhD; Dmitry Novikov, PhD
  • José Cruz Serralles
    Student
    🇺🇸 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    January 2016, June 2016, and March 2017 (one week each)
    Global Maxwell Tomography
    Riccardo Lattanzi, PhD; Daniel Sodickson, MD, PhD
  • Bjorn Stemkens
    Student
    🇳🇱 University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), The Netherlands
    from July 2016 to November 2016
    Bulk motion detection for robust pediatric imaging
    Thomas Benkert, PhD; Tobias Block, PhD; Hersh Chandarana, MD
  • Nathalia Missima, MD
    Body radiologist
    🇧🇷 Pontificia Univesidade Catolica de Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
    from August 2016 to March 2017
    MR enterography using XD-GRASP
    Leon Rybak, MD
  • Wyger Brink, PhD
    🇧🇪 Leiden University Medical Center, Belgium
    from June 2016 to August 2016
    Dielectric Shimming: Exploiting dielectric interactions in high-field MRI
    Christopher Collins, PhD
  • Simone Valduga, MD
    Musculoskeletal radiologist
    🇧🇷 Pontificia Univesidade Catolica de Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
    from May 2016 to February 2017
    Metal implant imaging using Sparse-SEMAC
    Leon Rybak, MD
  • Eve Piekarski, MD
    Student
    🇫🇷 University René Descartes, Paris, France
    from January 2016 to July 2016
    Evaluation of XD-GRASP reconstruction technique for free-breathing 2D cardiac cine MRI
    Leon Axel, MD, PhD; Teodora Chitiboi, PhD; Li Feng, PhD
  • Georg Schramm, PhD
    Student
    🇧🇪 KU Leuven, Belgium
    September 2015
    Simultaneous reconstruction of PET and MRI data
    Florian Knoll, PhD; Thomas Koesters, PhD
  • August Frank
    Student
    🇺🇸 University of Pennsylvania
    from June 2015 to August 2015
    3D printing for RF coils and hardware
    Graham Wiggins, DPhil
  • Koji Fujimoto, MD, PhD
    🇯🇵 Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
    from May 2015 to March 2017
    Comparison and analysis of GRASP reconstruction technique for abdominal DCE-MRI
    Kai Tobias Block, PhD; Hersh Chandarana, PhD, MBA; Li Feng, PhD; Ricardo Otazo, PhD
  • Lennart Tautz
    🇩🇪 Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing MEVIS, Bremen, Germany
    from March 2015 to May 2015
    Visualization and analysis of XD-GRASP reconstructed data
    Leon Axel, MD, PhD; Li Feng, PhD; Ricardo Otazo, PhD
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Science without Borders

Our investigators periodically travel to distant collaboration sites for extended research and educational visits.

During these trips, our researchers act as scientist envoys—they share the latest imaging advances, train colleagues in implementation of technologies developed at our Center, and educate peers on the model of multidisciplinary translational teamwork that underpins CAI2R.

Scientist envoys have been dispatched to Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Switzerland.

Scientist Envoys

  • Martijn Cloos, PhD
    🇯🇵 Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
    Koji Fujimoto, MD, PhD; Tomohisa Okada, MD, PhD
    August 2017 (six weeks), April 2018 (four days)
    Development and validation of plug-and-play MR fingerprinting (PnP-MRF) on single-transmit 7-Tesla MRI systems.
  • Bei Zhang, PhD
    🇩🇪 Siemens RF Research and Development Core, Erlangen, Germany
    Robert Rehner, PhD; Markus Vester, PhD
    October 2017 (one week), March 2018 (one week)
    Ultra-flexible RF coil arrays
  • Ricardo Otazo, PhD
    🇧🇷 Pontifícia Univesidade Católica de Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
    Matteo Baldiserrotto, MD; Alexandre Franco, PhD
    December 2014, March 2015, December 2015, March 2016, and December 2016 (two weeks each)
    Development and validation of free-breathing, compressed-sensing MRI techniques of lung and liver imaging for improved diagnosis and treatment of cystic fibrosis in pediatric patients; Lectures on compressed-sensing MRI in clinical studies.
  • Riccardo Lattanzi, PhD
    🇮🇹 Imago7 Foundation, Italy
    Gianluigi Tiberi, PhD; Michela Tosetti, PhD
    September 2016 (one week)
    The use of ultimate intrinsic signal-to-noise ratio (UISNR) as absolute reference for evaluation of a 7T RF coil array; Presentations of latest CAI2R research in rational coil design and assessment, as well as in magnetic resonance fingerprinting (some of the presentations were given at the University of Pisa).
  • Fernando Boada, PhD
    🇧🇪 KU Leuven, Belgium
    Johan Nuyts, PhD
    August 2015, April 2016, August 2016, March 2017 (one week each)
    Training in the use of development features of a PET-MR system, in procedural steps for retrieval of raw data, and in image reconstruction; Research updates on PET-MR image reconstruction.
  • Florian Knoll, PhD
    🇦🇹 University of Graz, Austria
    Kristian Bredies, PhD; Martin Holler, PhD
    February 2015 (one week), December 2015 (one week), April 2016 (two days)
    Development of new mathematical methods for joint reconstruction of multi-modality imaging data, with special focus on PET-MRI; Educational talks about MR and PET image reconstruction.
  • Tobias Block, PhD
    🇨🇭 Universitätsspital Basel, Switzerland
    Oliver Bieri, PhD; Daniel Boll, MD; Jens Bremerich, MD; Tobias Heye, MD; Elmar Merkle, MD
    October 2014 and April 2015 (one month each)
    Installation of the Yarra Framework; Training in use and configuration of the Yarra Framework; Development of exam protocols for a multi-modality insulinoma study that includes dynamic imaging of the pancreas with the GRASP technique; Development of Yarra online graphical user interface.
  • Timothy Shepherd, MD, PhD
    🇩🇪 Siemens headquarters, Erlangen, Germany
    Heiko Meyer, PhD; Josef Pfeuffer, PhD; Michael Schaaf; Christina Triantafylou, PhD; Michael Zenge, PhD
    March, 2015 (five days), September 2015
    Clinical implementation of advanced 3T MRI sequences; Development of clinically viable 7T MRI sequences for neuroradiology studies of multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and dementia.
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