The Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research (BMR) Group develops novel MRI techniques to improve patient care in many areas including breast MRI, abdominal MRI and MRI near metallic implants. We offer an outstanding combination of education and research to advance clinical applications of medical imaging.
News
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NIH Grant Awarded to Stanford/GE Team for Supine Breast MRI
Stanford & GE HealthCare were awarded an NIH grant, "High-resolution Supine Breast MRI." MRI in the supine position is far more comfortable than standard prone breast MRI, and allows better guidance of other prone procedures (biopsy, surgery, radiation treatment).
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Alex Toews celebrates his PhD
Dr. Alex Toews defended his thesis, entitled "Computational Methods for MRI Under Extreme Field Inhomogeneity", which presents methods to assess and to dramatically improve our ability to perform MRI in the presence of metal implants.
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ISMRM 2026 Annual Meeting
BMR members presented their latest research at the ISMRM annual meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, which had the theme “Ubuntu: I am because we are”.
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Trishia El Chemaly completes her PhD
Dr. Trishia El Chemaly defended her thesis, entitled “Towards Perception-Aware Augmented Reality for Surgical Guidance”, which focused on improving microscope guided surgery of the inner ear by overlaying medical image information.
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First International Meeting on Ultra-High Gradient Whole-Body MRI
MR imaging experts came together in Houston, Texas to discuss the latest research in the space of high-performance gradient systems.
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