Postdoctoral Position Available

MRI-Mediated Radiofrequency Ablation

Biomaterials Laboratory
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Department of Radiology
Massachusetts General Hospital

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Harvard Medical School




Background

The Biomaterials Laboratory of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging has an immediate postdoctoral opening in an exciting two-year NIH-funded project to develop methods in MRI-guided tumor ablation in which the scanner provides the ablation energy. The project involves numerical simulation of RF electric and magnetic fields and tissue heating effects, specialized RF coil development, and pulse sequence design. The work will be carried out in collaboration with Robin Medical, Inc., an innovative medical device company focused on MRI-guided interventional technology.


Duties

The postdoctoral fellow will create numerical simulations of RF electric and magnetic fields and tissue heating effects with our commercial simulation software, design and test specialized RF coils and devices, and develop pulse sequences for Siemens MR scanners. The fellow will carry out heating studies on phantoms and tissue specimens, and in the second year on live animals.


Qualifications

Candidates must have a doctoral degree, a solid background in MR physics or engineering, as well as expertise in electronics, software, pulse sequence development and/or RF coil design.


Contact Information

Feel free to phone or email for more information about the position. If you wish to be considered, please send a CV and arrange for three letters of recommendation (emailed pdf is acceptable) to:


Jerome L. Ackerman, Ph.D.
RF simulation and images Associate Professor of Radiology
Biomaterials Laboratory
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Room 2320
Massachusetts General Hospital
149 13th Street
Charlestown, MA 02129
USA

Phone: +1-617-726-3083
Fax: +1-617-726-7422
Email: jerry@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
URL: http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~jerry


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Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.