Welcome!
Welcome to a developing home for our research group, lead by Prof. Peder Larson and working closely with a network of researchers and clinicans. We love to tackle problems in medical imaging using engineering-driven approaches to improve human health. Our work mostly focuses on MRI (although we dabble in CT and PET) and on projects that at or near the stage of human studies.
We work on a range of projects, taking on new ones opportunistically, and projects currently include Metabolic MRI with hyperpolarized contrast agents, Simultaneous PET/MR imaging systems, Lung MRI, Myelin MRI, Radiation treatment planning, and Prostate and kidney cancer prediction based on historical imaging data.
This website focuses on Research Resources, including a blog, research project descriptions, and software packages. More information about the group is available at our UCSF Group Website for more information.
Featured Posts
Violin Imaging and other fun UTE MRI scans
Ultrashort echo time (UTE) MRI pulse sequences use specialized approaches for RF excitation and data acquisition to minimize the delay between excitation and acquisition in...
Tabletop MRI for Education - Initial Experience
As the ISMRM Annual Meeting 2023 in Toronto, I was approached by a group of UCSF PhD students telling me I had to see something....
The Sounds of MRI
When I tell people I work on MRI systems, one of the most common questions is about the sounds (or maybe described as noise, depending...
Synthesizing CT from MRI in Radiation Oncology
In Radiation Oncology, photons, protons, or electrons are used to treat cancer. Medical imaging is crucial in this process and allows us to visualize a...
Learning MRI (with lectures too)
I just completed teaching the course UCSF Biomedical Imaging 201: “Principles of MRI” for the 11th time, and figured it would be a great opportunity...
Explaining MRI in 10 Minutes
I recently embarked on my 11th(!) year of teaching UCSF Biomedical Imaging 201: “Principles of MRI” this fall, where I always start with an Overview...
