The MR Engineering Lab is part of the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center at Duke University. Our research involves the development of novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coil technologies – in particular, integrated parallel reception, excitation, and shimming (iPRES) and integrated radio-frequency/wireless (iRFW) coils – to enable imaging, localized B0 shimming, and/or wireless communication with a single coil, thereby improving the image quality and clinical utility of MRI applications such as functional MRI and diffusion MRI in the human brain and body. We also develop new technologies for portable low-field MRI (LF-MRI) scanners to increase MRI accessibility in non-traditional locations as well as high-resolution diffusion MRI (dMRI) techniques to investigate the microstructure of the human brain and to detect abnormalities in neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
