Background

The Biomaterials Laboratory of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging has an immediate opening for a postdoctoral fellow in an exciting one-year project to develop methods of vascular repair by MR coagulation, in which the scanner directs RF energy to heat a coagulable material by means of a guidewire. The project involves numerical simulation of RF electric and magnetic fields, material design, material and tissue heating effects, specialized RF device development, and pulse sequence design. The work will be carried out in collaboration with Robin Medical, Inc., an innovative medical device company focused on interventional MR technology.


Duties

The postdoctoral fellow will create numerical simulations of RF electric and magnetic fields and tissue heating effects, 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 later in the project 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.
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



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