Center for Advanced Imaging Research (CAIR)

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Thomas M. Ernst, Dr. rer. nat.

Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Technical Director, Center for Advanced Imaging Research (CAIR)

Phone: 410-706-1045
Email: ternst@som.umaryland.edu

Biosketch

Dr. Ernst is a Magnetic Resonance (MR) Physicist with broad expertise in imaging physics. He has worked on the development of MR methods for more than 20 years, and have been involved with commercialization as well.

Dr. Ernst is directing a multi-institutional Bioengineering Research Program (BRP) to develop prospective motion correction techniques for the acquisition of artifact-free brain MR images in subjects who move during the scans.

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Research Projects

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Prospective Motion Correction for MRI

ABCD Study @ Maryland

Effects of Drugs of Abuse and HIV on the Brain, using MRI and MRS

Neonatal and Pediatric MRI of Normal and Abnormal Brain Development


Lab Members

Thomas Ernst

Thomas Ernst, PhDProfessor
Email: thomas.ernst@umm.edu

Dr. Ernst joined the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2017. He previously worked at UCLA, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the University of Hawaii.

Bo Li, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Email: BLi@som.umaryland.edu

Bo has a PhD in Biomechanics and Mechanical Engineering from the Peking University, CN. He worked in industry prior to joining UMB as a post-doctoral fellow in 2019. His current project is on motion correction for simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) techniques

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Xiaoke Wang, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Email: XiaWang@som.umaryland.edu

Xiaoke has a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He joined UMB as a post-doctoral fellow in 2019. He is working on Deep Learning and motion correction for MR angiography (MRA).


Past Members

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Artan Kaso, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Email: artan.kaso@umm.edu

Artan obtained a PhD in Computational Physics at the University of Toronto. He worked at UCSF prior to joining UMB in 2018. His current project is on prospective motion correction for diffusion weighted MRI.

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Ningzhi Li, PhD
Staff Scientist

Ningzhi obtained a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at NIH before joining UMB in 2018.


Active Grants and Proposals

PI/MPIGrant TitleTotal Project PeriodFunding SourceTotal Costs
Thomas Ernst RGR-based Motion Tracking for Real-time Adaptive MRImaging and Spectroscopy 09/01/07 - 07/31/21 (NCE) NIDA/NIBIB $3,462,576.00
Thomas Ernst/
Linda Chang
2/21 ABCD-USA Consortium: Research Project Site at UMB 04/15/20 - 03/31/27 NIDA/NIAAA $13,098,568.00
Thomas Ernst/
Linda Chang
ABCD Diversity Supplement (Julian Baptiste, MD) 04/15/20 - 03/31/22 NIDA $203,394.00
Thomas Ernst/
Linda Chang
ABCD-Brain MRS-GABA Substudy (U. Utah Sub K) 06/15/19 - 05/31/21 NIDA $154,500.00

Total: $16,919,038.00


Publications

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