Prof. Elfar Adalsteinsson

Professor Adalsteinsson's current research interests include algorithms and hardware for parallel transmission (pTx), quantitative estimation and management of local power deposition and temperature in MRI, imaging of the fetus and placenta, oxygenation parameter imaging with MRI, sparsity properties in excitation and acquisition in MRI, compressed sensing, magnetic resonance fingerprinting, and reconstructions of dramatically undersampled MR imaging and spectroscopy.

The RLE Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Group conducts investigations in medical imaging with MRI technology, focusing on optimal methods for acquisition, reconstruction and processing of in vivo imaging data. The group’s interests include techniques for efficient sampling and spatial encoding of spectroscopic magnetic resonance data, whereby small signals, originating, for example, specifically from neurons in the brain, yield information not observed with conventional structural imaging. Applications of these and related methods include a study of the progression of Alzheimer’s disease and characterization of multiple sclerosis.