Research Directions

  • Interventional MR projects based on the new combined MR/Fluoroscopy suite: work on embolization, MR compatible wires, balloons and stents
  • Joint project with Transplant service for inplantation of pancreatic islet cells
  • Use of expandable metallic stents in the airways
  • Joint project with Vascular Surgery in treating high-risk aortic arterial aneurysms with endovascular stent-grafts
  • Magnetic catheter navigation in the 1.5 Tesla MRI environment