Professor of Radiology
Email: wald@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
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Biography
Technique development for high field imaging of the Brain. Development of 7 Tesla scanner and coils for imaging human brain function, highly parallel phased array coil development for 3T and 7T, Parallel transmit methods for B1+ mitigation in the head at 7T, and highly accelerated echo volume imaging.Recent Publications
- Yetisir F, Abaci Turk E, Feldman HA, Gagoski B, Didier RA, Barnewolt C, Estroff JA, Wald LL, Adalsteinsson E, Grant PE. Fetal MRI: Radiofrequency Safety Assessment at 3 Tesla. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2025 Apr 17.
- Dong Z, Wang F, Strom AK, Eckstein K, Bachrata B, Robinson SD, Rosen BR, Wald LL, Lewis LD, Polimeni JR. Quantifying brain-wide cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics using slow-flow-sensitized phase-contrast MRI. bioRxiv. 2025 Mar 25.
- Kazemivalipour E, Guerin B, Wald LL. Simulated radiation levels and patterns of MRI without a Faraday shielded room. Magn Reson Med. 2025 Mar 17.
- Zhang J, Chen D, Deming P, Srirangarajan T, Theriault J, Kragel PA, Hartley L, Lee KM, McVeigh K, Wager TD, Wald LL, Satpute AB, Quigley KS, Whitfield-Gabrieli S, Barrett LF, Bianciardi M. Cortical and subcortical mapping of the allostatic-interoceptive system in the human brain using 7 Tesla fMRI. bioRxiv. 2025 Jan 13.
- Mattingly E, Sliwiak M, Mason E, Chacon-Caldera J, Barksdale A, Niebel FH, Herb K, Graeser M, Wald LL. Design, construction and validation of a magnetic particle imaging (MPI) system for human brain imaging. Phys Med Biol. 2025 Jan 06. 70(1)