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BME PhD Student wins ISMRM Conference Award

Hesam Jahanian, a third year PhD student working with Professor Luis Hernandez-Garcia and Professor Douglas Noll in functional MRI lab, received the "Best student poster" award of white matter study group at the 17th annual meeting of ISMRM (International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine). ISMRM, the most prestigious conference in the field of magnetic resonance imaging, took place in Honolulu, Hawaii this past April 2009. Hesam's poster focussed on a paper he co-authored with BME student Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad of the Neural Engineering Lab. The paper, titled "White matter tractography by diffusion tensor imaging in Insular Epilepsy," presents a reproducible and non-invasive method to target insular epilepsy patients using magnetic resonance imaging techniques.

Posted on May 19, 2009, 3:12 pm