Group Members

Professor, Radiology/CMRR 

Affiliated Faculty Medical Physics, Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering 

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Dr. Ing/ Ph.D. 1998 - RWTH Aachen, Germany, Electrical Engineering 

M.S.E.E.           1993 - RWTH Aachen, Germany, Electrical Engineering 

Dr. Adriany is a Professor in the Department of Radiology and Associated Faculty in Electrical Engineering, Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He has worked in the field of Ultra High Field (UHF) MRI and Engineering for 30+ years.  After graduation with a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering (Dr. Ing) from the RWTH Aachen, Germany in 1998 he joined the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis, USA as research faculty. Over the course of his following academic career, he developed UHF MRI coil and antenna array technologies for the worldwide highest available magnet field strength and carried out related pioneering research. Notable is his RF engineering related work with the world’s first 7Tesla, 9.4Tesla and most recently the University of Minnesota’s 10.5Tesla whole body magnets and the pioneering development of the first multi-channel transceiver arrays and pTx related technology. 

Within CMRR Dr. Adriany leads the Engineering group since 2016 and is the Principal Investigator responsible for Engineering and UHF Safety aspects of CMRR’s BTRC NIH Grant. Dr. Adriany is active within the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine ISMRM, the ISMRM MR Engineering and Safety community.

Senior Scientist, Radiology/CMRR

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Ph.D. - 2002 University of Minnesota, Medical Physics

Dr. DelaBarre is a longtime member of the Engineering group and is a key MR scientist in the CMRR. For his his Ph.D. work he developed a widely used spectroscopy method coined LASER. He has more than 25 years experience with advanced MRI and Spectroscopy techniques and related technology and CMRR's early 7T body array work. Dr. DelaBarre is still involved with advanced MR and MRS methodology and all aspects of system control, optimization of imaging parameters and troubleshooting at 7T, 10.5T and 16.4T.

Garwood M, DelaBarre L. The return of the frequency sweep: designing adiabatic pulses for contemporary NMR. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2001;153(2):155–177.

Senior Engineer, Radiology/CMRR

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M.S.E.E. - University of Alberta, Electrical Engineering

Mr. Lagore is an M.S.E.E and expert in RF electronics, high density RF arrays and dipole antenna design. He designed the 10.5T 128 channel coil and recently published a related paper. He also built and designed our first 32 channel NHP coil achieving highest quality diffusion images. He is currently working on novel pre-amplifier cluster designs and flexible coil arrays. 

Senior RF Engineer, Radiology/CMRR

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B.S. - 2000 University of Minnesota, Electrical Engineering

Mr. Waks is the groups senior RF Engineer.  Matt has meanwhile 20+ years of industry and research experience building and designing RF coils and arrays and is CMRR's most experienced high density RF array, transceiver array and 16.4T coil expert.

UHF System Manager,  Sr. Engineer, Radiology/CMRR

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Ph.D. - 2021  University of Minnesota, Cognitive and Brain Sciences

M.S.  -  2020  University of Minnesota, Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Bratch is a key application scientist in the CMRR and manages all human UHF systems. Alex is involved with all aspects of image acquisition, quality assurance and system maintenance at 7T and 10.5T.

Engineering Research Support, Radiology/CMRR

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Jeromy manages and maintains CMRR's extensive fabrication and 3D printing facilities. He also facilitates the 10.5T user training and is an experience solidwork designer. Jeromy assist with all 3D design related questions and also takes care of all magnet related peripherals in CMRR and at MIDB.

Jr. RF Engineer, Master Student, Radiology/CMRR

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B.S. - 2023 University of Minnesota, Electrical Engineering

Electrical Engineer Research Assistant, Radiology/CMRR

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B.S - 2025 University of Minnesota, Biomedical Engineering

Undergrad Research Assistant, Radiology/CMRR

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Senior at University of Minnesota, Biomedical Engineering

PhD Research Candidate, Biomedical Engineering

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Yixiang joined the group in 2024 and is Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering. Her research focus is on the development of flexible and close fitting transceiver and receiver 10.5T coil arrays.