Robert Mulkern, Ph.D.

Bob Mulkern is an MRI Physicist.

Education:

1978 B.A., Physics, Math, Cornell University
1982 M.A.,Physics, Brown University
1986 Ph.D., Physics, Brown University
1986-1988 Post-Doc, MR Medical Applications, Harvard Medical School

Publications:

  1. Mulkern RV, Gudbjartsson H, Westin C-F, Zengingonul HP, Gartner W, Guttmann CRG, Robertson R, Kyriakos W, Schwartz R, Holtzman D, Jolesz FA, Maier SE. Multi-component apparent diffusion coefficients in human brain. NMR in Biomed. 1999; 12:51-62.
  2. Kekelidze T, Khait I, Togliatti A, Benzycry J, Mulkern R, Holtzman D. Maturational changes in rabbit brain phosphocreatine and creatine kinase. Ann NY Acad Sci. 1999; 893:309-313.
  3. Okuda S, Kuroda K, Oshio K, Mulkern RV, Colucci V, Morrison PR, Kainuma O, Jolesz FA. MR temperature measurement for hot saline injection therapy: An in vitro and in vivo study. J Magn Reson Imag. 2000; 12:330-338.
  4. Warfield SK, Mulkern RV, Winalski CS, Jolesz FA, Kikinis R. An image processing strategy for the quantification and visualization of exercise induced muscle MRI signal enhancement. J Magn Reson Imag. 2000; 11:525-531.
  5. Kyriakos WE, Panych LP, Kacher DF, Westin C-F, Bao SM, Mulkern RV, Jolesz FA. Parallel image reconstruction from multiple receiver arrays for fast MRI. Magn Reson Med. 2000; 44:301-308.
  6. Robertson RL, Maier SE, Mulkern RV, Vajapeyam S, Robson CD, Barnes PD. MR line-scan diffusion imaging of the spinal cord in children. AJNR. 2000; 21:1344-1348.
  7. Mugler, III JP, Bao S, Mulkern RV, Guttmann CRG, Robertson RL, Jolesz FA, Brookeman JR. Optimized single-slab three-dimensional spin-echo MR imaging of the brain. Radiology. 2000; 216:891-899.
  8. Hynynen K, McDannold N, Mulkern RV, Jolesz FA. Temperature monitoring in fat with MRI. Magn Reson Med. 2000; 43:901-904.
  9. Oshio K, Kyriakos W, Mulkern RV. Line scan echo planar spectroscopic imaging. Magn Reson Med. 2000; 44:521-524.
  10. Mulkern RV, Chung T. From signal to image: Magnetic resonance imaging physics for cardiac magnetic resonance. Pediatr Cardiol. 2000; 21:5-17.
  11. Mulkern RV, Zengingonul HP, Robertson RL, Bogner P, Gudbjartsson H, Guttmann CRG, Holtzman D, Kyriakos W, Jolesz FA, Maier SE. Multi-component apparent diffusion coefficients in human brain: Relationship to spin-lattice relaxation. Magn Reson Med. 2000; 44:292-300.
  12. McDannold N, Hynynen K, Oshio K, Mulkern RV. Temperature monitoring with line scan echo planar spectroscopic imaging (LSEPSI). Med Phys Med Phys. 2001; 28:346-355.
  13. Panych LP, Zhao L, Jolesz FA, Mulkern RV. Dynamic imaging with multiple resolutions along phaseencode and slice-select dimensions. Magn Reson Med. 2001; 45:940-947.
  14. Gamborota G, Cairns BE, Berde CB, Mulkern RV. Osmotic effects on the T2 relaxation decay of in vivo muscle. Magn Reson Med. 2001; 46:592-599.
  15. Maier SE, Bogner P, Bajzik G, Mamata H, Mamata Y, Repa I, Jolesz FA, Mulkern RV. Normal brain and brain tumor: Multi-component apparent diffusion coefficient line scan imaging. Radiology. 2001; 219: 842-849.
  16. Mulkern RV, Vajapeyam S, Robertson RL, Caruso PA, Rivkin MJ, Maier SE. Biexponential apparent diffusion coefficient parametrization in adult vs. newborn brain. Magn Reson Imag. 2001; 19:659-668.
  17. Mulkern RV, Panych LP. Echo planar spectroscopic imaging. Concepts in Magnetic Resonance. 2001; 13:213-237.
  18. Huang JS, Mulkern RV, Grinspoon S, Reduced intravertebral bone marrow fat in HIV-infected men. Aids. 2002; 16:1265-1269.
  19. Greenman RL, Shirosky JE, Mulkern RV, Rofsky NM. Double inversion black blood fast spin echo imaging of the human heart: A comparison between 1.5 T and 3.0 T. J Magn Reson Imag. 2003; 17:648-655.
  20. Maier SE, Mamata H, Mulkern RV. Characterization of normal brain and brain tumor pathology by chisquares parameter maps of diffusion-weighted image data. Eur J Radiol. 2003; 45:199-207.
  21. Chan I, Wells III W, Mulkern RV, Haker S, Zhang J, Zou KH, Maier SE, Tempany CMC. Detection of prostate cancer by integration of line-scan diffusion, T2-mapping and T2-weighted MR imaging; a multi-channel statistical classifier. Med Phys. 2003; 30:2390-2398.
  22. Robertson RL, Robson CD, Zurakowski D, Antiles S, Strauss K, Mulkern RV, CT versus MR in neonatal brain imaging. Pediatr Radiol 33:442-449; 2003.
  23. Mulkern RV, Huang JS, Vajapeyam S, Oshio K, Grinspoon S. Fat fractions and spectral T2 values in vertebral bone marrow in HIV and non-HIV infected men: A 1H spectroscopic imaging study. Magn Reson Med. 2004; 52:552-558.
  24. Maier SE, Vajapeyam S, Westin C-F, Mulkern RV. Biexponential diffusion tensor analysis of human brain diffusion data. Magn Reson Med. 2004; 51:321-330.
  25. Ababneh Z, Haque M, Maier SE, Mulkern RV. Dairy cream as a phantom material for biexponential diffusion decay. MAGMA. 2004; 17(2):95-100.
  26. Chen NK, Oshio K, Panych LP, Rybicki FJ, Mulkern RV. Spatially selective T2 and T2 * measurement with line-scan echo-planar spectroscopic imaging. J Magn Reson. 2004, 171(1):90-6.
  27. Mulkern RV, Vajapeyam S, Haker SJ, Maier SE. Magnetization transfer studies of the fast and slow tissue water diffusion components in the human brain. NMR Biomed. 2005, 18(3):186-94.

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