Research Fellow Vacancies
Two Postdoctoral positions are available within world leading groups in
the heart of central London.
The Imaging
Sciences Division, Kings College London, is currently based
at Guy's Hospital close to the Tower of London, Shakespeare's Globe
Theatre, the Tate Modern art gallery and other riverside attractions.
The group performed the first MR guided human cardiac intervention
using their Philips Intera 1.5T scanner. They now have a 32 channel
cardiac array coil. In 2007 the group will move to new space at the
nearby St Thomas' Hospital, directly opposite the Houses of Parliament
and close to the London Eye ("big wheel"). A new Philips 3T is being
installed at the St Thomas' site. There is considerable local
experience using the Philips pulse programming environment, in sequence
development and offline reconstruction.
The Centre for Medical Image
Computing (CMIC), University College
London, is close to the British Museum, the shops of Oxford Street and
Tottenham Court Road, the new Eurostar train station and the theatres,
cinemas and clubs of London's
West End. CMIC is one of Europe's largest medical imaging
research groups and includes researchers from the Departments of
Medical Physics & Bioengineering and Computer Science. The group
has a 200 node computer cluster with the MATLAB Distributed Computing
Engine available on 64 of the nodes in addtition to other parallel
computing facilities.
Travel between the two groups takes about 30 minutes door-to-door on a
direct Underground route.
The Project
The project aims to transform the practicality of cardiac MRI by using
cardiac array coils with large numbers of elements to enable
time-resolved, whole-heart images from patients breathing normally. It
builds upon expertise in our laboratories in undersampled MRI, parallel
imaging, image registration, correction for non-rigid motion during MR
imaging, respiratory motion compensation and cardiac MRI. The UCL and
KCL groups are well equipped with access to a 32-channel MR system for
acquisition and a 200-node computer cluster of 64-bit machines. The
posts provide opportunities to develop methods that will allow more
reliable scanning of patients and open up innovative applications that
are currrently difficult to apply clinically.
The project is funded by an EPSRC joint grant, details
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Applications
To apply for the UCL post, please send a CV and completed UCL
application form to David Atkinson D.Atkinson@ucl.ac.uk
On the UCL form, you may respond "see CV" to a question if the CV
clearly answers the question.
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UCL application form PDF Word
To apply for the KCL post, please see our website at www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs
for an
application pack or email personnel-applications@kcl.ac.uk
Alternatively send a large self-addressed envelope to the Personnel
Department, 4th Floor Capital House, Weston Street, London, SE1 3QD
quoting reference no. W1/MRC/194/07-LC.
Images from around UCL
David Atkinson June 12,
2007.