Biophysics

  Alumni of the Biophysics Graduate Program

• Bandettini, Peter
  • "Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Human Brain Activation Using Endogenous Susceptibility Contrast" (1994)
  • Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
  • Current Location:  Chief, Section on Functional Imaging Methods and Director, Functional MRI Core Facility, NIMH, Bethesda, MD
• Belanger, Barry
  • "The Measurement of Scattered Radiation in Clinical Diagnostic X-Ray Procedures Employing Area Beam Detectors: A Practical Method for Scatter Correction in Digital Fluoroscopy" (1987)
  • Advisor: Charles R. Wilson, PhD
  • Current Location: Mgr., X-Ray Imaging & Advanced Technology, GE Medical Systems
• Bennett, Kevin
  • "The Continuous Distribution of Restricted Water Diffusion Rates in Brain Tumors" (2003)
  • Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
  • Current Location:  Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Arizona State University
• Bennett (Tong), Raoqiong
  • "Power Spectral Density Imaging to Expand the Nyquist Limit" (2001)
  • Advisor:  Robert W. Cox, PhD
• Bigelow, Michael
  • "Mechanisms of Stone Crystal Attachment to Inner Medullary Collecting Duct Cells" (1996)
  • Current Location: Anes. Resident, Stanford University
• Birn, Rasmus
  • "Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Presence of Task-Induced Motion" (1999)
  • Advisor: Robert W. Cox, PhD
  • Current Location: Staff Scientist, NIMH, Bethesda, MD

• Biswal, Bharat
  • "Physiological Fluctuations in Functional MRI" (1996)
  • Advisor:  James S. Hyde, PhD
  • Current Location:  Associate Professor, Dept of Radiology, UMDNJ, New Jersey Medical School
• Buchaklian, Adam

  • " Structure and Dynamics of the MsbA Homoddimer Using Site-Directed Spin Labeling Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy " (2007)

  • Advisor:  Candice S. Klug, PhD
  • Current Location:  Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin.
• Christensen, James
  • "Position and Velocity Measurement in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using the Spatially Inhomogeneous Reception Fields of Local RF Coil Arrays" (1991)
  • Advisor:  James S. Hyde, PhD
  • Current Location: 
• Datta, Ritobrato
  • Advisor:  E. DeYoe, PhD
• Ferguson, Eric
  • "The Homocysteine Thiolactone Adduct of Low-Density Lipoprotein" (1998)
  • Advisor:  B. Kalyanaraman, PhD
  • Current Location:  Resident, Dept. of Surgery, Univ. of Florida Health Science Center
• Francis, Derek J.
  • "Structural Dynamics of Visual Arrestin" (2008)
  • Advisor:  Candice S. Klug, PhD
  • Current Location: 
• Goss, Steven P. A.
  • "Antioxidant Effect of Nitric oxide on Human Low-Density Lipoprotein" (1998)
  • Advisor:  B. Kalyanaraman, PhD
  • Current Location:  Postdoctoral Fellow in Clinical Chemistry, The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
• Herlihy, Amy
  • "Application of Non-Linear Gradient Fields to Magnetic Resonance Imaging" (1997)
  • Advisor: Andrzej Jesmanowicz, PhD
  • Current Location: Senior Research Officer, Robert Steiner MR Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
• Ibrahim, Michael
  • "Mathematical and Pharmacokinetics Modeling of MRI Contrast Agents' Transport into the Intervertebral Discs" (1994)
  • Advisor: Victor M. Haughton, MD
• Jacobson, Donald
  • "Measurement of Compact and Cancellous Bone Density in the Proximal Femur with Quantitative Computed Tomography" (1989)
  • Advisor: Charles R. Wilson, PhD
  • Current Location: Asst. Prof., Medical Physics, Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin
• Kim, Changseon
  • "Dual-Energy Computed Radiography for the Quantitative Bone Mineral Densitometry" (1995)
  • Advisor: Charles R. Wilson, PhD
  • Current Location: Asst. Prof., Radiology, The Korean University
• Kim, Young Ro
  • "Evaluation of fractional blood volume measurement methods
    using intravascular T1 contrast agent and a rat tumor model" (2001)
  • Advisor: Kathleen Donahue Schmainda, PhD
  • Current Location:  Post-Doctoral Fellow at Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Klug, Candice S.
  • "Structural and Stability Studies on the Ferric Enterobactin Receptor FepA Using Advanced EPR Spectroscopy Techniques" (1998)
  • Advisor: Jimmy B. Feix, PhD
  • Current Location:  Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics, MCW
• Knight-Scott, Jack
  • "Simultaneous Measurement of the Longitudinal and Transverse Relaxation Times for in vivo Single-voxel Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy" (1996)
  • Advisor: Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
    Current Location: Department of Radiology, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston
• Koteiche, Hanane
  • "Probing the Active Site of Phosphoribulokinase using Spin Labeling Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy" (1997)
  • Advisor:  James S. Hyde, PhD
  • Current Location: Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center 
• Kufahl, Peter
  • "Expansion of the Acute Cocaine fMRI Study in Human Brain: Expectation Control and Multivariate Statistical Processing" (2006)
  • Advisor:  Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
  • Current Location:  Postdoctoral fellow in Behavioral Neural Science, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
• Kumar, Amit 
  • "Characterization of substrate 
    binding in leucine aminopeptidase from Vibrio proteolyticus" (2006)
  • Advisor: Brian Bennett, D. Phil.
  • Current Location: Postdoctoral fellow in structural biology, 
    Department of Pharmacology, Yale University Medical School
• Li, Zhu
  • "Reducing Susceptibility Artifacts with 8-shimmed Background Gradient Compensation Method and its Application in fMRI Study of Human Cocaine Abuse" (2002)
  • Advisor: Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
  • Current Location:  GE Medical Systems, Wisconsin
• Liu, Jun
  • "Structure-Function Relationship of the Escherichia coli Ferric Enterobactin Receptor, FepA: Molecular Genetic and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spin Label Studies" (1994)
  • Advisor: Jimmy B. Feix, PhD
  • Current Location: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
• Lu, Hanbing
  • "fMRI at Subcortical Resolution in Rat Whisker Barrel Cortex" (2003)
  • Advisor:  James S. Hyde, PhD
  • Current Location: Research Scientist, Neuroimaging Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland
• Luh, Wen-Ming
  • "Comparison of Simultaneously Measured Cerebral Blood Flow and Blood Oxygenation Using Pulsed Arterial Spin Labeling in High Resolution MRI" (1998)
  • Advisor:  James S. Hyde, PhD
  • Current Location:  Staff Scientist, fMRI core facility, NIH, Bethesda, MD
• Luo, Feng
  • "Investigation of the Pharmacological MRI Signal Induced by Cocaine or Heroin in Rat Brain" (2004)
  • Advisor:  Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
  • Current Location:   Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, IL
• Mahesh, Mahadevappa
  • "Study of the Accuracy of Bone Mineral Measurements Using Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry" (1993)
  • Advisor: Charles R. Wilson, PhD
  • Current Location: Chief Clinical Radiology Physicist at Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Department of Radiology
• Mchaourab, Hassane
  • "Methodology and Theory of Multiquantum EPR, Eldor and Endor with Application to a Spin Labeled Analog of the ION-Channel Peptide Cecropin AD" (1993)
  • Advisor:  James S. Hyde, PhD
  • Current Location: Professor,  Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Meyerand, Mary Elizabeth
  • "Single-Shot Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Time Encoding" (1996)
  • Advisor: Andrzej Jesmanowicz, PhD
  • Current Location: Associate Professor, Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Nagy, Paul
  • "Quantitative Pinhole Focal Spot Measurements:  Projection and Dynamic Characteristics" (1999)
  • Advisor: Charles R. Wilson, PhD
  • Current Location: GE Medical Systems 
• Narasimhan, Jana
  • "Effect of Copper and Gallium Compounds on Ribonucelotide Reductase" (1992)
  • Advisor: William E. Antholine, PhD
  • Current Location: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 
• Ogden, Kent
  • Advisor: Charles R. Wilson, PhD
  • Current Location: Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, SUNY UpState Medical University, Syracuse, New York
• Pathak, Arvind
  • "The Assessment Of Brain Tumor Angiogenesis Using Susceptibility Contrast Agent Based Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging" (2001)
  • Advisor: Kathleen Donahue Schmainda, PhD
  • Current Location: Instructor in the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
• Popp, Carol (Weingarten)
  • "Electron-Electron Double Resonance and Saturation-Recovery Studies of Nitroxide Electron and Nuclear Spin-Lattice Relaxation Times and Heisenberg Exchange Rates: Lateral Diffusion in Model Membranes" (1982)
  • Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
  • Current Location: Assistant Professor of Radiology at Emory University, Atlanta, with a joint appointment in Psychiatry
• Prost, Robert W.
  • "Two Dimensional Chemical Shift Imaging of Glutamate and Glutamine at 0.5T with Application to Neurodegenerative Disease" (1999)
  • Advisor:  Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
  • Current Location:  Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin
• Quarles, Chad
  • "The morphological and functional assessment of brain tumor vasculature
    using dynamic susceptibility contrast magnetic resonance imaging" (2004)
  • Advisor: Kathleen Schmainda, PhD
  • Current Location:  Postdoctoral fellow, Vanderbilt University
• Riese, Richard
  • "Adherence of Kidney Stone Microcrystallites to Renal Papillary Collecting Tubule Cells in Primary Culture" (1990)
  • Advisor: Neil S. Mandel, PhD
  • Current Location: Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
• Roopchansingh, Vinai
  • "Compensation of Static and Dynamic Magnetic Field Perturbations in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging" (2004)
  • Advisor: Andrzej Jesmanowicz, PhD
  • Current Location: Staff Scientist, Biophysics Department, Medical College of Wisconsin
• Shang, Tiesong
  • "Mitochondria signaling in chemically-induced Parkinsonism: free radical dependent and independent pathway" (2005)
  • Advisor: B. Kalyanaraman, PhD
  • Current Location: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Protein Dynamics and
    Signaling, NCI-Frederick, Maryland~
• Siedband, Melvin P.
  • "Commutated Ion Chambers for Measurement of Field Uniformity" (1995)
  • Advisor: Charles R. Wilson, PhD
  • Current Location: Consultant; Professor Emeritus, Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Song, Allen Wuming 
  • "Diffusion Weighted FMRI: a study of signal origin" (1995)
  • Advisor:  James S. Hyde, PhD
  • Current Location: Professor and Director, Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Professor of Radiology, Psychiatry, Neurobiology and Biomedical Engineering.  Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
• Spencer, Netanya Y.
  • "S-Nitrosothiols, Nitric Oxide, and Heme Proteins" (2003)
  • Advisor: Neil Hogg, PhD
  • Current Location:  Resident, at the University of Iowa
• Wong, Eric C.
  • "The Design and Applications of Local Gradient Coils for Magnetic Resonance Imaging" (1991)
  • Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
  • Current Location:  Professor, Psychiatry & Radiology, Univ. of CA., San Diego
• Wu, James
  • "Pharmacokinetic Study of in vivo Fluid Dynamics Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents" (1992)
  • Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
  • Current Location: Private Practice, Radiology, Pasadena, California
• Yin, Jun-Jie
  • "Mathematical Models of spin dynamics in spin-labeled Membranous Systems with Experimental Verifications Using CW ELDOR and Pulse Saturation Recovery Electron Spin Resonance" (1987)
  • Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
  • Current Location: Research Scientist, FDA, Washington, D.C.
• Yuan, Hua
  • "Structural Investigation of Copper Binding Sites in Proteins:  Particulate Methane Monooxygenase" (1998)
  • Advisor: William A. Antholine, PhD
  • Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, Scripps Research Institute, Dept. of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, La Jolla, CA
• Xie, Jun
  • "fMRI and Functional Connectivity Study of Human Heroin Addiction" (2008)
  • Advisor:  Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
  • Current Location: 
• Xu, Guofan
  • "Arterial Spin Labeling Magnetic Resonance Imaging & Functional Synchrony of Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent signal analysis in early detection of Alzheimer's Disease Onset" (2006)
  • Advisor:  Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
  • Current Location: 
• Zhang, Rongyan
  •  "Functional MRI Using Magnetization Transfer" (1998)
  • Advisor:  Robert W. Cox, PhD

• Zhang, Yanhong
  • "The Transport and Metabolism of S-Nitrosothiols" (2004)
  • Advisor:  Neil Hogg, PhD
  • Current Location: Scientist, Biomarin Pharmaceuticals Inc., Novato, California
• Zhao, Hongtao
  • "Detection of superoxide by ESR-spin trapping and hydroethidine fluorescence" (2005)
  • Advisor:  B. Kalyanaraman, PhD
  • Current Location: Research Associate, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
• Zhao, Xiaoli
  • "Applying Sensitivity Encoding to Spectroscopic Imaging" (2002)
  • Advisor:  Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
  • Current Location: GE Medical Systems