Walter F. Block, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, MRI Imaging
Department Affiliations
Biomedical Engineering
Medical Physics
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Education
B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, Champaign IL
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA
Positions
1988-1991 - Computer Engineer, GE Medical Systems, Waukesha, WI
1991-1993 - Systems Engineer, GE Medical Systems, Waukesha, WI
1993-1998 - Research Assistant, Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA
1998-2000 - Assistant Scientist, Departments of Medical Physics and Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI
2000-2006 - Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
2000-2006 - Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
2006- present - Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
2006-present - Associate Professor, Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
Awards and Honors
2000-2003 - Whitaker Foundation Grantee
1984 - Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society
1985 - Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
1986 - MacClinchie Senior Scholarship
Fields of Interest
Magnetic resonance (MR) interventional procedures
MR angiography and cardiac imaging - specifically designing real-time magnetic resonance acquisition and processing algorithms and systems for these procedures
MR contrast mechanisms
Signal and image processing
Distributed computing
Memberships
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Society
