Niranjan
Balu
PhD
MBBS

Biography
Dr. Niranjan Balu is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Washington. He is the Co-Director of the Vascular Imaging Lab and leads the Imaging Physics, Image Processing and Technical Developments Group at the Vascular Imaging Lab. He also manages the MRI aspect of large NIH sponsored multicenter studies and multicenter pharmaceutical trials. His research interests include MR pulse sequence design, image processing and their application to clinical cardiovascular MRI. His current research is focused on developing new MRI techniques to reduce quantitative measurement variability in vessel wall MRI and development of fast sequences to facilitate translation of vessel wall MRI to the clinic.
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