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 ...

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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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

CMIC building
UCH
UCL front quad



David Atkinson  June 12, 2007.