School of Physics Seminar Programme 2014-2015
Ground floor theatre, Comerford Suite
(Clinical Sciences Institute)
Time: 9:30
Monday, December 15th
IDIG:MR Diffusion Tensor imaging
Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) is a form of MR imaging based upon measuring the
random Brownian motion of water molecules within a voxel of tissue. This talk will focus on
the origins, applications and evolution of the technique from diffusion weighted imaging to
diffusion tensor imaging allowing the visualisation of the neural fibre tracts in-vivo.
The speaker is Alexander Leemans, an Associate Professor of physics at the Image Sciences
Institute (ISI), University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands, where he currently holds
a tenured faculty position. He lectures an introductory course in image processing, which is
part of the M.Sc. programme Biomedical Image Sciences (BIS) of the Graduate School of Life
Sciences, Utrecht University. His current research interests include modelling, processing,
visualizing and analyzing diffusion MRI data for investigating microstructural and
architectural tissue organization. He heads the PROVIDI Lab and is the developer of
ExploreDTI, which is a graphical toolbox for investigating diffusion MRI data.