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Michael Garwood

Professor Radiology-CMRR

102 CMRR, 626-2001, email gar @ umn.edu

Lillian Quist – Joyce Henline Chair of Biomedical Research, 2003-; Associate Director, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, 2003-; Fellow, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2000; Scholar Award, Radiological Society of North America, 1989; Gold Medal, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2007.

Chairman, Organizing Committee, 2002 MR of Cancer Workshop, ISMRM, 2002; Elected Chairman, MR of Cancer Study Group, ISMRM, 2002-2003; Member, Translational Imaging Advisory Board, Novartis Oncology, November 6-7, 2003; Member, International Advisory Committee to the Dean of Medicine, University of Alberta, 2003-2004; Workshop Co-Chair and Organizing Committee Member, NCI Workshop on MR in Translational Research in Cancer – Tumor Response, 2004; Member, External Advisory Board, F.M. Kirby Research Center, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, 2000-2007; Member, External Advisory Committee, NIH Small Animal Imaging Resource at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 2001-present. EDITORIAL BOARDS: Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 1998 – 2001; NMR in Biomedicine, 1999 – present; Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2005 – present.

Research Areas
Development of advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS) techniques using ultrahigh magnetic fields. The design of amplitude- and frequency-modulated RF pulses to overcome experimental imperfections resulting, for example, from magn

Selected Publications

S. Michaeli, G. Oz, D. Sorce, M. Garwood, K. Ugurbil, and P. Tuite, Assessment of Brain Iron and Neuronal Integrity in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease Using Novel MRI Contrasts, Movement Disorders (2007)

R. Chamberlain, J.-Y. Park, C. Corum, E. Yacoub, K. Ugurbil, C.R. Jack, Jr., and M. Garwood, RASER: A New Ultra Fast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Method, Magn Reson. Med. (2007)

T, F. Mitsumori, H. Watanabe, N. Takaya, and M. Garwood, The Apparent Transverse Relaxation Rate in Human Brain Varies Linearly with Tissue Iron Concentration at 4.7, Magn Reson. Med. (2007)

J. Valette, J.-Y. Park, O.H.J. Gröhn, K. Uğurbil, M. Garwood, and P.-G. Henry, J, Spectroscopic Imaging with Volume Selection by Unpaired Adiabatic π Pulses: Theory and Application, Magn. Reson. (2007)

D. Sorce, S. Michaeli, and M. Garwood, Relaxation during Adiabatic Radiofrequency Pulses, Current Analytical Chemistry (2007)

Education

B.A. in biology and chemistry, University of California
Ph.D. in chemistry 1985, University of California