Bastiaan Driehuys, Ph.D. Professor of Radiology
Office Phone: (919) 684-7786
Email: bastiaan.driehuys@duke.edu
Bastiaan Driehuys directs the Xenon MRI Shared Resource at Duke. His ongoing research involves deploying and validating MR-based imaging biomarkers of pulmonary function and structure in a variety of disease areas. He helped introduce the field of hyperpolarized (HP) gas MRI, including the first animal and human studies using 3He and 129Xe. His research has turned towards exploiting solubility and chemical shifts of 129Xe to evaluate regional pulmonary gas exchange, and his team has applied that technology to patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, COPD, asthma, and pulmonary vascular disease. The group is active in developing methods to continue identifying unique spectroscopic and imaging signatures of pulmonary physiology and pathophysiology. With industry and academic experience, Dr. Driehuys’ interests span not only attacking the basic physics problems of these gases, but in their large-scale expansion and application to biomedical problems.
David Mummy, Ph.D Assistant Professor of Radiology
Office Phone: (919) 684-7783
Email Address: david.mummy@duke.edu
David’s research focuses on applications of <sup>129</sup>Xe MRI in human lung disease, including asthma, COPD, and interstitial lung disease. He is especially interested in how biomarkers derived from ventilation and dissolved-phase 129Xe imaging can be used clinically to aid in diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy selection and monitoring.
Jennifer Korzekwinski, CRC, RT(N), CNMT
Office Phone: (919) 681-7362
Email Address: jennifer.korzekwinski@duke.edu
Jennifer’s Radiology career began as a Nuclear Medicine Technologist and has transitioned into her current roles as Clinical Research Coordinator and Regulatory Coordinator. Jennifer is committed to providing the best experiences for her study participants as well as providing the accurate and precise documentation necessary for the management of clinical trials.
Cody Blanton, CRC
Office Phone: (919) 668-7575
Email Address: cody.blanton@duke.edu
Cody previously worked as an orthopedics inpatient nurse prior to transitioning into his current role as a Clinical Research Coordinator. His interpersonal and communicative skills allow him to effectively engage with study participants. Cody is dedicated to ensuring study participants safety while monitoring them in the MRI scanner, as well as through correct documentation. He looks forward to continued learning related to regulatory aspects of clinical trial management.
Alex Sents, CRC, MA, MPH
Office Phone: (919) 668-0739
Email Address: alex.sents@duke.edu
Alex is a clinical research coordinator whose career began in oncology. She has since transitioned to the radiology sphere where she effectively manages recruitment, engagement, and regulatory responsibilities. She is committed to ensuring participants are well informed and reassured throughout their time as a participant.
Hong Qin, PhD., Analyst Programmer
Email Address: hong.qin@duke.edu
As a member of the Xenon Team at Duke University, Hong specializes in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) research with hyperpolarized 129Xe gas. Hong’s research primarily focuses on utilizing this innovative imaging technology to diagnosing and monitoring pulmonary diseases. Before joining the Xenon Team, Hong earned her master’s degree in software engineering from Queen’s University, Canada, and a PhD in Engineering from Chongqing University, China.
Drew Clements, Research and Development Engineer
Office Phone: (919) 684-7839
Email Address: drew.clements@duke.edu
Drew is a R&D Engineer and is the primary operator of 129Xe polarizers. Most technical problems and enhancements associated with 129Xe polarizers and related research studies are managed by Drew. He is currently investigating how respiratory behaviors during 129Xe inhalation impacts scan quality so a remote dose delivery method can be standardized. His skillset includes CAD, 3D printing, CNC machining, circuitry, microelectronics, and programming.
Doreen Dai, Research Intern
Email Address: haoran.dai@duke.edu
Doreen is a research intern who to assists in processing and analyze incoming image data obtained for ongoing research studies.
Suphachart Leewiwatwong, Graduate Student
Email Address: suphachart.leewiwatwong@duke.edu
Suphachart is a Biomedical Engineering Graduate student.
Anna Costelle, Graduate Student
Email Address: anna.costelle@duke.edu
Anna is a Graduate student who is currently seeking to establish normal reference values for the dynamic spectra of Xe-129 absorbed in red blood cells of the lung.
Andrew McHorse, Graduate Student
Email Address: andrew.mchorse@duke.edu
Andrew is a medical physics graduate student working who is investigating clinical trends in lung health using 129Xe MRI. He is currently developing image registration techniques to correlate lung anatomy and physiology from CT and 129Xe, respectively.
Seth Lee, Graduate Student
Email Address: seth.lee@duke.edu
Seth is a medical physics graduate student currently studying 129Xe MR spectroscopy methods and establishing optimized analysis pipelines for spectroscopic data. His research background is in pre-clinical biomedical imaging, specifically high-field MRI of small animal cancer models.
Fuyao Li, Graduate Student
Email Address: fuyao.li@duke.edu
Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI provides insights into the severity and spatial distribution of pulmonary diseases. Fuyao’s project objective is to use 129Xe MRI and Spectroscopy to develop a diagnostic algorithm aimed at distinguishing between several common pulmonary diseases like COPD, ILD, and pre-capillary PH.
Kunyu (Kimi) Du, Undergraduate Student
Email Address: kimi.du@duke.edu
As an undergraduate studying biomedical engineering, Kimi is working on a project to create a healthy reference distribution. She is also working on a project involving the natural heterogeneity of ventilation and gravitational gradients in healthy subjects.
