Dr. Patriat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Minnesota. After receiving a B.A. in Physics and Film Studies (2010) from the University of Minnesota-Morris, Dr. Patriat earned a M.S (2012) and a PhD (2015) in Medical Physics from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Patriat has been working on ultra-high field (e.g., 7Tesla) MRI research and its application towards the creation of patient-specific anatomical models to improve DBS targeting and efficacy, first as a Postdoctoral Researcher at CMRR (2015-2019) and then as Faculty (since 2019). Dr. Patriat’s work includes manual segmentation and machine learning applications based on direct anatomical visualization as well as structural and functional connectivity analyses.
