Aaron Hess
PhD
Senior MRI Physicist
- Manage team, including DPhil students and Postdoc
- Run research program in ultra high field MRI
High resolution cardiac MRI, with 7T and compressed sensing
My Research
My research seeks to advance cardiac MRI resolution using three advances in MRI technology: (i) measurement and correction of cardiac motion using new approaches, (ii) harnessing fast MRI with compressed sensing and (iii) ultra-high field MRI (7T). Together these technologies have the potential to improve assessment of small structures such as the atrial myocardium, blood flow, and function, and thereby help better individualise AF therapy (such as drugs and invasive procedures) and improve stroke risk prediction.
I currently managed the cardiac 7T imaging facility at OCMR. In this work we have shown that 7T measurements meet the theoretically expected increase in signal to noise for 4D flow and that cardiac perfusion has great potential. My current work is focused on measuring respiratory and cardiac motion using changes in conductivity of the subject as observed through a local MRI transmit array at 7T.
I work closely with MRI manufacturers on projects including new algorithums for compressed sensing, development of motion sensors, ultra high resolution angiography, 4D flow, and pulse sequences for 7T cardiac imaging.
Recent publications
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Assessment of radio-frequency heating of a parallel transmit coil in a phantom using multi-echo proton resonance frequency shift thermometry.
Journal article
Jeong H. et al, (2020), Magn Reson Imaging, 77, 57 - 68
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An investigation into the minimum number of tissue groups required for 7T in-silico parallel transmit electromagnetic safety simulations in the human head.
Journal article
de Buck MHS. et al, (2020), Magn Reson Med
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Magnetic resonance imaging
Patent
HESS A. et al, (2020)
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Motion correction methods for MRS: experts' consensus recommendations.
Journal article
Andronesi OC. et al, (2020), NMR Biomed
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Navigator-based reacquisition and estimation of motion-corrupted data: Application to multi-echo spin echo for carotid wall MRI.
Journal article
Frost R. et al, (2019), Magn Reson Med
ORCID
0000-0002-9289-5619