Woodall Receives ISMRM’s Summa Cum Laude Award
Third-year BME graduate student Ryan Woodall received a Summa Cum Laude award at the 2017 meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).
Ryan Woodall, a third-year graduate student working with Professor Tom Yankeelov in the Center for Computational Oncology, received a Summa Cum Laude award at the 2017 meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). ISMRM is a nonprofit association that promotes the development and innovation of magnetic resonance techniques throughout the world.
Ryan’s abstract, titled “The effects of intra-voxel contrast agent diffusion on the analysis of DCE-MRI data in realistic tissue domains,” examined an inherent error that is a fundamental assumption within the mathematical models that are used to analyze dynamic-contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) data. The goal of the research is to identify solutions to improve the accuracy of DCE-MRIs.
The Summa Cum Laude award signifies that Ryan’s abstract scored in the top 5% of the 6,781 abstracts submitted to the conference.