Dr Richard Ansorge

Richard Ansorge

University position

Senior Lecturer

Dr Richard Ansorge is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.

Departments

Department of Physics

Email

rea1@cam.ac.uk

Home page

http://www.bss.phy.cam.ac.uk/~rea1/ (personal home page)

Research Theme

Clinical and Veterinary Neuroscience

Interests

My current interests include hardware and software development for various medical imaging modalities, especially PET and MRI. This work is done in close collaboration with the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre. One particular current project is the development of a novel combined PET-MR system for pre-clinical research. Other projects involve MR sequence development and post-processing algorithms for MR and PET. I also have interests in high performance computing, including parallel programming on PC clusters GPUs. A 3D image registration tool, AIRWC is available from my website which runs on CUDA enabled GPUs. I am also interested in graphical applications including the visualization of complex data sets.

Combined PET-MR scanner, currently under constuction
Combined PET-MR scanner, currently under constuction
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Research Focus

Keywords

PET

MR

GPU

Registration

Clinical conditions

No direct clinical relevance

Equipment

High performance computing with PC clusters and GPUs

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

Collaborators

Cambridge

Adrian Carpenter

Steve Sawiak

Guy Williams

Associated News Items


    Key publications

    Hawkes RC, Fryer TD, Siegel S, Ansorge RE, Carpenter TA (2010), “Preliminary evaluation of a combined microPET-MR system.” Technol Cancer Res Treat 9(1):53-60 Details

    Ansorge RE, Sawiak SJ, William GB (2009), “Exceptionally fast non-linear 3D image registration using GPUs” IEEE Proceedings NIC/MSS 4088-94

    Ansorge RE, Shaw NR (2002), “Genetic Algorithms for MRI Magnet Design” IEEE Trans on Applied Superconductivity 12:733-736

    Publications

    2011

    Malone IB, Ansorge RE, Williams GB, Nestor PJ, Carpenter TA, Fryer TD (2011), “Attenuation correction methods suitable for brain imaging with a PET/MRI scanner: a comparison of tissue atlas and template attenuation map approaches.” J Nucl Med 52(7):1142-9 Details

    2010

    Dickson JD, Ash TW, Williams GB, Harding SG, Carpenter TA, Menon DK, Ansorge RE (2010), “Quantitative BOLD: the effect of diffusion.” J Magn Reson Imaging 32(4):953-61 Details

    2008

    Hosey TP, Harding SG, Carpenter TA, Ansorge RE, Williams GB (2008), “Application of a probabilistic double-fibre structure model to diffusion-weighted MR images of the human brain.” Magn Reson Imaging 26(2):236-45 Details

    Stevick JW, Harding SG, Paquet U, Ansorge RE, Carpenter TA, Williams GB (2008), “Gaussian process modeling for image distortion correction in echo planar imaging.” Magn Reson Med 59(3):598-606 Details

    2006

    Lucas AJ, Hawkes RC, Ansorge RE, Williams GB, Nutt RE, Clark JC, Fryer TD, Carpenter TA (2006), “Development of a combined microPET-MR system.” Technol Cancer Res Treat 5(4):337-41 Details

    2005

    Barret O, Carpenter TA, Clark JC, Ansorge RE, Fryer TD (2005), “Monte Carlo simulation and scatter correction of the GE advance PET scanner with SimSET and Geant4.” Phys Med Biol 50(20):4823-40 Details

    Cusack R, Russell B, Cox SM, De Panfilis C, Schwarzbauer C, Ansorge R (2005), “An evaluation of the use of passive shimming to improve frontal sensitivity in fMRI.” Neuroimage 24(1):82-91 Details

    Hosey T, Williams G, Ansorge R (2005), “Inference of multiple fiber orientations in high angular resolution diffusion imaging.” Magn Reson Med 54(6):1480-9 Details

    2000

    Coley MD, Ansorge RE, Hall LD, Carpenter TA (2000), “A locally adaptive registration technique for high precision registration of 3-D MRI data.” Neuroimage 12(5):574-81 Details

    1994

    Hooper CE, Ansorge RE, Rushbrooke JG (1994), “Low-light imaging technology in the life sciences.” J Biolumin Chemilumin 9(3):113-22 Details

    1990

    Hooper CE, Ansorge RE, Browne HM, Tomkins P (1990), “CCD imaging of luciferase gene expression in single mammalian cells.” J Biolumin Chemilumin 5(2):123-30 Details