Contact Information

Karin Shmueli
10 Center Dr.
Bldg. 10, Rm. B1D-726 - MSC 1065
Bethesda, MD 20892-1065
USA
Tel.: +1 301 451 9916
Fax: +1 301 480 2558
E-mail: shmuelik at mail.nih.gov

Education

• Ph.D.:
  • Wellcome Trust High Field Magnetic Resonance Research Laboratory, Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London, United Kingdom, June 2005
  • Thesis Title: "Optimisation of Magnetic Resonance Techniques for Imaging the Human Brain at 4.7 Tesla"
• M.Sc. with Distinction:
  • Radiation Physics - Medical Applications
  • Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London, United Kingdom, October 2001
  • Project Title: The Effects of Fat Suppression on Functional MRI Signals and Activation Patterns Using Multi-Slice Echo Planar Imaging , Charing Cross Hospital, London, United Kingdom
• Postgraduate Diploma of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) with Distinction:
  • National Health Service Trainee Clinical Scientist in Medical Physics: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ultrasound and Nuclear Medicine
  • Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals, London, United Kingdom, 2001
• First Class M.A. (Hons) and M.Sci. (Hons) - Master of Natural Sciences:
  • University of Cambridge (Pembroke College), United Kingdom, June 1999

Publications

• K Shmueli, SJ Dodd, TQ Li, JH Duyn
  The Contribution of Chemical Exchange to MRI Frequency Shifts in Brain Tissue
  Magn Reson Med 2011 65(1):35-43


• RL O'Gorman, K Shmueli, K Ashkan, M Samuel, DJ Lythgoe, A Shahidiani, SJ Wastling, M Footman, RP Selway, J Jarosz
  Optimal MRI Methods for Direct Stereotactic Targeting of the Subthalamic Nucleus and Globus Pallidus
  Eur Radiol 2011 21(1):130-6


• J Lee, K Shmueli, M Fukunaga, P van Gelderen, H Merkle, AC Silva, JH Duyn
  Sensitivity of MRI Resonance Frequency to the Orientation of Brain Tissue Microstructure
  PNAS 2010 107(11):5130-5


• M Fukunaga, TQ Li, P van Gelderen, JA de Zwart, K Shmueli, B Yao, J Lee, D Maric, MA Aronova, G Zhang, RD Leapman, JF Schenck, H Merkle, JH Duyn
  Layer-Specific Variation of Iron Content in Cerebral Cortex as a Source of MRI Contrast
  PNAS 2010 107(8):3834-9


• K Shmueli, JA de Zwart, P van Gelderen, TQ Li, SJ Dodd, JH Duyn
  Magnetic Susceptibility Mapping of Brain Tissue In Vivo Using MRI Phase Data
  Magn Reson Med 2009 62(6):1510-22


• M Bianciardi, M Fukunaga, P van Gelderen, SG Horovitz, JA de Zwart, K Shmueli, JH Duyn
  Sources of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Signal Fluctuations in the Human Brain at Rest: a 7 T Study
  Magn Reson Imaging 2009 27(8):1019-29


• B Yao, TQ Li, P van Gelderen P, K Shmueli, JA de Zwart, JH Duyn
  Susceptibility Contrast in High Field MRI of Human Brain as a Function of Tissue Iron Content
  Neuroimage 2009 44(4):1259-66


• K Shmueli, P van Gelderen, JA de Zwart, S Horovitz, M Fukunaga, JM Jansma, JH Duyn
  Low Frequency Fluctuations in the Cardiac Rate as a Source of Variance in the Resting-State fMRI BOLD Signal
  Neuroimage 2007 38(2):306-320


• K Shmueli, DL Thomas, RJ Ordidge
  Design, Construction and Evaluation of an Anthropomorphic Head Phantom with Realistic Susceptibility Artifacts
  J Magn Reson Imaging 2007 26:202-207