Faculty and Staff

Pierre-François Van de Moortele, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
612-626-2001

pfvdm [at] cmrr (dot) umn (dot) edu

Research Interests (7 Tesla and higher field):

Pierre-François Van de Moortele is Assistant Professor in the Radiology department. His main field of research concerns MR Imaging in Humans at Ultra High magnetic field (7 Tesla and above).

Transmit B1 management at Ultra High Field (Body and Brain applications)

fast multi channel B1 Mapping
fast multi channel B1 Shimming
RF pulse design in parallel Excitation with SAR constraints
SAR impact of RF coil design based on Electromagnetic numerical models

High Resolution Structural and Functional Brain Imaging

High resolution functional MRI
High resolution structural Hippocampus imaging

Vasculature imaging

MPRAGE based Angiography at 7T (Kidneys, Brain, Heart)
Time of Flight based Angiography (Brain)

Selected Publications:

Ellermann J, Goerke U, Morgan P, Ugurbil K, Tian J, Schmitter S, Vaughan JT, Van de Moortele PF. Simultaneous Bilateral Hip Joint Imaging at 7 Tesla using Fast Transmit B1 Shimming Methods and Multichannel Transmission - A Feasibility Study. NMR Biomed 2012; in press.

Henry TR, Chupin M, Lehericy S, Ugurbil K, Ott F, Sha Z, Van de Moortele PF. Hippocampal Sclerosis in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Findings at 7 Tesla. Radiology 2011; in press.

Schmitter S, Bock M, Johst S, Auerbach E, Ugurbil K, van de Moortele P-F. Contrast Enhancement in TOF cerebral angiography at 7 Tesla using Saturation and MT under SAR constraints: impact of VERSE and sparse pulses. Magn Reson Med 2011; in press.

Wu X, Vaughan JT, Ugurbil K, Van de Moortele PF. Parallel excitation in the human brain at 9.4 T counteracting k-space errors with RF pulse design. Magn Reson Med 2010;63(2):524-529.

Wu X, Akgün C, Vaughan JT, Andersen P, Strupp J, Ugurbil K, Van de Moortele P-F. Adapted RF Pulse Design for SAR Reduction in Parallel Excitation with Experimental Verification at 9.4 Tesla. Journal of Magnetic Resonance 2010;205:161-170.

Van de Moortele PF, Auerbach EJ, Olman C, Yacoub E, Ugurbil K, Moeller S. T1 weighted brain images at 7 Tesla unbiased for Proton Density, T2* contrast and RF coil receive B1 sensitivity with simultaneous vessel visualization. Neuroimage 2009;46(2):432-446.

Metzger GJ, Snyder C, Akgun C, Vaughan T, Ugurbil K, Van de Moortele PF. Local B1+ shimming for prostate imaging with transceiver arrays at 7T based on subject-dependent transmit phase measurements. Magn Reson Med 2008;59(2):396-409.

Van de Moortele PF, Akgun C, Adriany G, Moeller S, Ritter J, Collins CM, Smith MB, Vaughan JT, Ugurbil K. B1 destructive interferences and spatial phase patterns at 7 T with a head transceiver array coil. Magn Reson Med 2005;54(6):1503-1518.

Van de Moortele PF, Pfeuffer J, Glover GH, Ugurbil K, Hu X. Respiration-induced B0 fluctuations and their spatial distribution in the human brain at 7 Tesla. Magn Reson Med 2002;47(5):888-895.

Van de Moortele PF, Cerf B, Lobel E, Paradis AL, Faurion A, Le Bihan D. Latencies in fMRI time-series: effect of slice acquisition order and perception. NMR Biomed 1997;10(4-5):230-236.

Metzger G, Van de Moortele P-F, Akgun C, Snyder CJ, Moeller S, Strupp J, Andersen P, Shrivastava D, Vaughan T, Ugurbil K, Adriany G. Performance of external and internal coil configurations for prostate investigations at 7 T. Magn Reson Med 2010;64(6):1625-1639.

Olman CA, Van de Moortele P-F, Schumacher J, Guy J, Ugurbil K, Yacoub E. Retinotopic mapping with Spin Echo BOLD at 7 Tesla. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2010: 28, 1258-69

Wiesinger F, Van de Moortele PF, Adriany G, De Zanche N, Ugurbil K, Pruessmann KP. Potential and feasibility of parallel MRI at high field. NMR Biomed 2006;19(3):368-378.

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