Staff profiles

• Medical and Materials Imaging

Research students

• Hans Adriaensen
• Robert Morris

• Porous media MRI of fluid flow
  Features of the correlation between the spatial distribution of fluid velocity and fluid density, as measured with ultra-fast MRI, have been established in a spatially heterogeneous porous medium.
• Porous media MRI of medium permeability
  A novel type of MRI experiment was designed allowing the non-invasive imaging of the porous medium permeability, using a direct measurement of the spatial distribution of fluid pressure.
• Peripheral Nerve Stimulation in MRI
  Features of Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS) due to field gradient switched in MRI have been explored using analytical and numerical calculations, and experimental work on volunteers, testing a novel type of MRI gradient coil invented by Professor Richard Bowtell, allowing minimised PNS for identical imaging properties.
• Acoustic noise reduction in MRI
  A novel type of gradient coil wire support, allowing pronounced attenuation of the radiated acoustic noise was invented.
• Unilateral NMR/MRI
  In Physics the unilateral NMR/MRI instrument, the MR MOUSE® is available, and various research projects are presently running on it.

Current research is funded by EPSRC, DSTL and Unilever.

• EPSRC, titled ‘Imaging of Viscous Fluid Pressure for Flow in Porous Media with MRI using Gas-Filled Liposomes’, value: £ 100,000.
• DSTL, titled ‘Dynamic spatially resolved unilateral NMR measurements of liquid ingress in heterogeneously wetting, layered fabrics.’, value: £35,400.

Opportunities to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil/PhD or MSc by research exist in all the areas identified above.

Further information may be obtained from the University Graduate School.