MRI Physics Initiative members

  • Jack Allen

    Personal details

    Jack Allen Research Associate

    Location

    Guy Scadding Building
    Royal Brompton Campus

    Research interests

    • MRI pulse sequence development
    • Signal modelling
    • Cardiac MRI
    • Arrhythmia
    • Quantitative MRI
  • Dr Neal Bangerter

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    Dr Neal Bangerter Reader in Magnetic Resonance Physics

    Location

    3.15 Royal School of Mines
    South Kensington Campus 

    Research interests

    • MRI pulse sequence development
    • musculoskeletal MRI
    • machine learning
    • quantitative MRI
    • rapid techniques for MR relaxometry
    • ultra-high field MRI
  • Alaine Berry

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    Alaine Berry Senior Research Radiographer

    Location

    Robert Steiner MR Unit
    Hammersmith Campus

    Research interests

    • Cardiac MRI
    • Cardiac MRI Parametric Mapping
  • Karyn Chappell

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    Karyn Chappell Honorary Research Associate

    Location

    MSK Lab
    Lab Block
    Charing Cross Campus

    Research interests

    • Musculoskeletal MRI
    • Advanced MRI techniques
    • MRS, DTI, UTE, qMRI, MRI safety
    • Tractography
    • Magic angle effect
    • Sports injuries
    • Rheumatology
    • Orthopaedics
  • Dr Pedro Ferreira

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    Dr Pedro Ferreira Honorary Research Fellow

    Location

    1325 Sydney Street
    Royal Brompton Campus 

    Research interests

    • Cardiac diffusion
    • image processing
    • data visualisation
    • artificial intelligence
  • Dr Mary Elizabeth Finnegan

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    Dr Mary Elizabeth Finnegan Visiting Researcher

    Location

    Royal School of Mines
    South Kensington Campus

    Research interests

    • quantitative imaging
    • quality assurance
    • functional MRI
    • multiparametric MRI in the brain and prostate
    • MRI of the carotid artery
    • MRI for radiotherapy treatment planning
  • Dr Matthew Grech-Sollars

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    Dr Matthew Grech-Sollars Research Fellow

    Location

    143
    ICTEM Building
    Hammersmith Campus

    Research interests

    • Brain tumours
    • neuroimaging
    • clinical imaging biomarkers
    • MR Fingerprinting
    • diffusion MRI
    • perfusion MRI
    • MR spectroscopy
    • PET imaging
    • multi-modal imaging
    • quantitative MRI
    • machine learning
  • Dr Marianna Inglese

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    Dr Marianna Inglese Research Associate

    Location

    G1 Hammersmith Hospital
    Hammersmith Campus 

    Research interests

    • Dynamic PET and contrast enhanced MRI perfusion data quantification and integration (brain, lung, breast)
    • Radiomic analysis of patients with dementia
  • Simran Kukran

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    Simran Kukran Research Postgraduate

    Location

    ICTEM Building
    Hammersmith Campus

    Research interests

    • MRI Pulse Sequence Development
    • MR Fingerprinting
    • Machine Learning
    • Brain Tumours
    • Neuroimaging
    • Clinical Imaging Biomarkers
    • Quantitative MRI
    • Diffusion MRI
    • Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping
  • Dr Pete Lally

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    Dr Pete Lally BRC MR Physics Fellow

    Location

    Burlington Danes
    Hammersmith Campus

    Research interests

    • Brain MRI
    • spatial encoding strategies
    • pulse sequence design
    • MR biomarkers in clinical trials
    • MR spectroscopy
  • Rebecca Quest

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    Rebecca Quest Honorary Senior Lecturer

    Location

    Radiological Sciences Unit
    2N15North Wing
    Charing Cross Campus 

    Research interests

    • MR fingerprinting
    • quantitative imaging
    • quality assurance
    • functional MRI
    • multiparametric MRI in the brain and prostate
    • MRI of the carotid artery
    • cardiac MRI
    • MRI for radiotherapy treatment planning
  • Joely Smith

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    Joely Smith Honorary Lecturer

    Location

    2nd Floor
    Charing Cross Campus

    Research interests

    • MR Fingerprinting
    • Quantitative relaxometry mapping
    • Quantitative DCE Breast MRI
    • Volumetric Neonatal MRI and US
  • Ben Statton

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    Ben Statton Superintendent Radiographer

    Location

    Robert Steiner MR Unit
    Hammersmith Campus 

    Research interests

    • Cardiac MRI
    • Exercise MRI
    • 31p Spectroscopy
    • 4D Flow
    • fMRI
  • Marta Varela

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    Marta Varela Research Fellow

    Location

    4th Floor
    Royal School of Mines

    Research interests

    • cardiac MRI
    • MRI-based characterisation of the atria
    • atrial CINE-MRI
    • T1 mapping
    • fat imaging
  • Dr Guang Yang

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    Dr Guang Yang Honorary Senior Research Fellow

    Location

    Sydney Street
    Royal Brompton Campus

    Research interests

    • Cardiac MRI
    • Compressive Sensing
    • Deep Learning
    • Medical Image Analysis
    • Super-Resolution
    • Image Co-registration
    • Manifold Learning
    • MR Spectroscopy 

Contact us


For enquiries about the MRI Physics Initiative, please contact:

Senior MR Physicist
Mary Finnegan

Imperial Research Fellow
Matthew Grech-Sollars

BRC MR Physics Fellow
Pete Lally