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Ms Maria Engel
Research Associate
- EngelM1@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29206 88759
- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Room 1.021, Maindy Road, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ
Overview
My research focuses on developing methods for rapid magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MRI is notoriously slow relative to most other medical imaging modalities. However, it has a number of prominent applications, such as functional brain studies, that demand time-resolved and thus very fast scanning. My work focuses on accelerating imaging protocols using advanced spatial encoding, field sensing and image reconstruction methods.
Research
Engel, M.; Kasper, L.; Pruessmann, K. P. BOLD PSF: Impact of k-Space Sampling on T2* Contrast. In Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB; London, 2022; p 2446. https://index.mirasmart.com/ISMRM2022/PDFfiles/2446.html
Engel, M.; Kasper, L.; Wilm, B.; Dietrich, B.; Patzig, F.; Vionnet, L.; Pruessmann, K. P. Mono-Planar T-Hex: Speed and Flexibility for High-Resolution 3D Imaging. Magn. Reson. Med. 2022, 87 (1), 272–280. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mrm.28979
Kasper, L.; Engel, M.; Heinzle, J.; Mueller-Schrader, M.; Graedel, N. N.; Reber, J.; Schmid, T.; Barmet, C.; Wilm, B. J.; Stephan, K. E.; Pruessmann, K. P. Advances in Spiral FMRI: A High-Resolution Study with Single-Shot Acquisition. NeuroImage 2022, 246, 118738. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811921010107
Engel, M.; Kasper, L.; Patzig, F.; Bianchi, S.; Prüssmann, K. Whole-Brain FMRI at 5 Frames per Second Using T-Hex Spiral Acquisition. In Proceedings of the 2021 ISMRM & SMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition; 2021; p 0886. https://index.mirasmart.com/ISMRM2021/PDFfiles/0886.html
Engel, M.; Kasper, L.; Wilm, B.; Dietrich, B.; Vionnet, L.; Hennel, F.; Reber, J.; Pruessmann, K. P. T-Hex: Tilted Hexagonal Grids for Rapid 3D Imaging. Magn. Reson. Med. 2021, 85 (5). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mrm.28600
Graedel, N. N.; Kasper, L.; Engel, M.; Nussbaum, J.; Wilm, B. J.; Pruessmann, K. P.; Vannesjo, S. J. Feasibility of Spiral FMRI Based on an LTI Gradient Model. NeuroImage 2021, 245. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811921009472
Marjanovic, J.; Reber, J.; Brunner, D. O.; Engel, M.; Kasper, L.; Dietrich, B. E.; Vionnet, L.; Pruessmann, K. P. A Reconfigurable Platform for Magnetic Resonance Data Acquisition and Processing. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 2020, 39 (4), 1138–1148. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8853297
Engel, M.; Kasper, L.; Barmet, C.; Schmid, T.; Vionnet, L.; Wilm, B.; Pruessmann, K. P. Single-Shot Spiral Imaging at 7 T. Magn. Reson. Med. 2018, 80 (5), 1836–1846. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mrm.27176
Kasper, L.; Engel, M.; Barmet, C.; Haeberlin, M.; Wilm, B. J.; Dietrich, B. E.; Schmid, T.; Gross, S.; Brunner, D. O.; Stephan, K. E.; Pruessmann, K. P. Rapid Anatomical Brain Imaging Using Spiral Acquisition and an Expanded Signal Model. NeuroImage 2018, 168, 88–100. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811917306432
Hennel, F.; Tian, R.; Engel, M.; Pruessmann, K. P. In-Plane “Superresolution” MRI with Phaseless Sub-Pixel Encoding. Magn. Reson. Med. 2018, 80 (6), 2384–2392. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mrm.27209
Biography
Education
| 2020 | PhD – ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2014 | Master of Physics – Heidelberg University, Ruperto Carola, Germany |
| 2012 | Bachelor of Physics – Heidelberg University, Ruperto Carola, Germany |
Academic positions
| 2021 - present | Research Associate at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), Cardiff University, UK |
| 2020 - 2021 | PostDoc at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBT), ETH Zurich, Switzerland |