Els D. Fieremans PhD

Els Fieremans, Ph.D. has been working on diffusion MRI since 2003. During Ph.D., she introduced anisotropic diffusion fiber phantoms useful for testing diffusion MRI sequences and fiber tractography. She also developed numerical Monte Carlo simulations of random walkers to model the diffusion signal in brain tissue.

In her current research, She continues to focus on validation methods for diffusion MRI including both hardware and numerical phantoms, as well as animal models. She thereby seeks to develop and translate new imaging markers for neurodegeneration, as well as body diffusion applications in muscle and prostate, using advanced biophysical modeling of non-Gaussian and time-dependent diffusion in biological tissue.