Research News
- August: Melissa Hooijmans presents “A novel approach for 3D whole muscle strain measurements during isometric muscle contractions” at the 2020 ISMRM conference.
- June: We’re thrilled to learn that our most recent R01 application, “Effect of Chronic PDE5 Inhibition on Adipose Metabolism in Humans” – a Multiple PI application with Evan Brittain, MD – received a priority score of 30 (15%)!
- May: “Slice-selective extended phase graphs in gradient-crushed, transient-state free precession sequences” by Ostenson et al. in press in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
- April: Beyond ambulation: Measuring physical activity in youth with Duchenne muscular dystrophy by Killian et al. published in Neuromuscular Disorders.
- February: Two abstracts accepted for presentation at the 2020 annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
- February: Three abstracts accepted for presentation at the 2020 annual meeting of the Federation of Associations of Societies of Experimental Biology.
- September: Bruce Damon in Orlando for the ASBMR conference.
- September: Crystal Coolbaugh’s paper, “Cold exposure induces dynamic, heterogeneous alterations in human brown adipose tissue lipid content,” published in Scientific Reports.
- July: New funding arrives! Through a collaboration with Dr. Xiaojuan Li at the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, we will be participating in the Imaging MOON trial, a long-term follow-up study of the effects of anterior cruciate ligament injury.
- May: Bruce Damon visits the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, gives seminars to the Program in Advanced Musculoskeletal Imaging and Department of Biomedical Engineering.
- March: Jason Ostenson’s paper, “MR fingerprinting with simultaneous T1, T2, and fat signal fraction estimation with integrated B0 correction reduces bias in water T1 and T2” is published in Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
- February: Crystal Coolbaugh and Bruce Damon in Banff, Alberta to present two posters at the 2019 Keystone Conference on Obesity and Adipose Tissue Biology.
- January: Bruce Damon and others publish “Exploration of new contrasts, targets, and MR imaging and spectroscopy techniques for neuromuscular disease – A workshop report of working group 3 of the Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences COST Action BM1304 MYO-MRI” in the Journal of Neuromuscular Disorders.
- December: Along with Hermien Kan, Gustav Strijkers, and many others, Bruce Damon publishes “Exploration of New Contrasts, Targets, and MR Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques for Neuromuscular Disease – A Workshop Report of Working Group 3 of the Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences COST Action BM1304 MYO-MRI” in the Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases.
- October: We’re thrilled to learn that our most recent R01 application, “Development and Application of Muscle Diffusion Tensor MRI,” received a priority score of 25 (6%)!
- October: Bruce Damon in Dallas to give an invited presentation at the American Congress of Rehabilitative Medicine conference
- September: “Fat-Water Phantoms for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Validation: A Flexible and Scalable Protocol,” by Emily Bush and colleagues, published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments
- August: Bruce Damon visits the Myology Institute at the University of Florida to give a seminar and develop a new collaboration with Glenn Walter using imaging to study neuromuscular disorders
- June: At the 2018 ISMRM annual meeting, Jason Ostenson and colleagues present “Unbalanced Steady-State Free Precession MR Fingerprinting with Simultaneous Fat Signal Fraction, T1, T2 and B0 Estimation” and Bruce Damon and colleagues present “Sensitivity of Quantitative Texture Metrics to Variations in Image Acquisition Parameters”
- June: Bruce Damon awarded an SEC Faculty Travel grant to visit colleagues in the Myology Institute at the University of Florida
- April: Bruce Damon gave a keynote presentation at the University of Kentucky’s School of Engineering Biomedical Research Day
- March: Crystal Coolbaugh and colleagues publish “An Individualized, Perception-Based Protocol to Investigate Human Physiological Responses to Cooling” in Frontiers in Physiology