DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL PHYSICS

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN -School of Medicine & Public Health

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Research Areas

• Radiation Dosimetry,  Radiation Protection

• Biomagnestism

• Bone Densitometry

• Diagnostic X-ray Imaging

• Magnetic Resonance    Imaging (MRI)

• Nuclear Medicine, PET, Molecular Imaging

• Optical Spectroscopy

• Radiation Therapy Physics

• Ultrasound Imaging

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Andrew Alexander, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Medical Physics and Psychiatry

T-135 Waisman Center

1500 Highland Avenue

Madison, WI 53705

Telephone: 608/265-8233(office)

Fax: 608/262-2413

E-mail:  alalexander2@wisc.edu

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OTHER DEPARTMENT AFFILIATIONS [back to top of page]

• Medical Physics

• Psychiatry

EDUCATION [back to top of page]

• B.S., University of Maine, ME (1987)
• M.S., University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (1990)
• Ph.D., University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (1994)

• Molecular imaging, radioisotope production & using PET methodologies to investigate neurochemical changes in the brain. 

POSITIONS [back to top of page]

• 2001-2006, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-School of Medicine and Public Health, Departments of Medical Physics and Psychiatry
• 2001-Present, Director of MR Physics, W.M. Keck Lab for Functional Brain Imaging, University of Wisconsin-School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
• 2006-Present, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-School of Medicine & Public Health, Departments of Medical Physics and Psychiatry.

AWARDS AND HONORS [back to top of page]

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PATENTS [back to top of page]

1.   US Patent 6,674,894  METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING AN IMAGE USING DATA OPTIMIZATION AND SEGMENTATION [Inventors: Dennis L. Parker, Andrew L. Alexander, John A. Roberts, Brian Chapman]

PUBLICATIONS [back to top of page]

1. Kholmovski E, Parker DL, Alexander AL: Isotropic k-space sampling scheme for 3D-fast spin echo. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 11:549-558(2000).

2. Hadley JR, Chapman BE, Roberts JA, Chapman DC, Goodrich KC, Buswell HR, Alexander AL, Tsuruda JS, Parker DL: A three coil comparison for MR angiography. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 11:458-468 (2000).

3. Alexander AL, Hasan K, Kindlmann G, Parker DL, Tsuruda JS: A geometric comparison of diffusion anisotrophy measures. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 44:283-291 (2000)

4. Hasan K, Parker DL, Alexander AL: Comparison of gradient encoding schemes for diffusion-tensor MRI. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (in press).

5. Alexander AL, WU Y: Improved dynamic image reconstruction using temporal interpolation. Magnetic Resonance Medicine (submitted 09/21/2000).

6. WU Y, Alexander AL: A temporal frequency analysis of dynamic MRI techniques. Magnetic Resonance Medicine (submitted).

7. Hasan K, Basser PJ, Parker DL, Alexander AL: Analytical diagnonalization of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors in DT-MRI: theory, validation and applications. Journal of Magnetic Resonance (submitted).

Last Modified: 04/02/2008

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