Graduate research that compliments IR?

[carDiO]

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On considering an area of basic science research to pursue for the PhD portion of an MSTP, what type of research would be the most beneficial for someone with the ultimate goal of IR in academia? Cell biology, immunology, physiology, cell anatomy, biochemistry??? Is there one that would compliment IR more than the others? What are your thoughts?

 

[Gradient Echo]

Originally posted by carDiO
On considering an area of basic science research to pursue for the PhD portion of an MSTP, what type of research would be the most beneficial for someone with the ultimate goal of IR in academia? Cell biology, immunology, physiology, cell anatomy, biochemistry??? Is there one that would compliment IR more than the others? What are your thoughts?

Does your school not have a biomedical engineering department or other graduate dept that does research in imaging?

I'm working in an interventional MRI lab. We work on all kinds of stuff, including heart, brain, lung, prostate, and vascular interventions with MRI as both diagnostic and a treatment modality.

You can find a way to use all of those with IR, but the BEST way is probably to do direct research in IR, which should be possible if you have an MSTP-affiliated graduate dept which does any kind of imaging research, and a lab exists at your school which investigates those things.

We are also doing stuff like developing IR methods for delivering, tracking, and monitoring of gene therapy. All the fields you mentioned come into play for these kinds of projects.

 

[Docxter]

Biomedical engineering is the way to go. If thinking of IR, research in flow dynamics (e.g. computational models of aneurysm flow dynamics), biopolymers used in catheters and stents, intravascular imaging devices, catheter navigation systems, intravascular near-infrared imaging, angioscopy methodology, new glues and emobolotherpy materials, coli design, etc. are all topics that may be investigated during your PhD. Another hot topic is molecular imaging, including it's vascular aspects.