Precision Imaging of Joint Degeneration

As part of Yale’s university-wide celebration of 100 Years of Women at YSM, our department is excited to welcome back an accomplished MRI scientist who did her PhD, postdoc and early faculty time here. Sharmila Majumdar is the Director of the Musculoskeletal and Quantitative Imaging Research group at UCSF and was awarded the 2016 Gold Medal of the ISMRM for her innovative contributions to the development of quantitative imaging methods. 

Bioimaging Sciences Seminar*

"Precision imaging of joint degeneration"
Sharmila Majumdar (UCSF)

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of articular cartilage and the joint as whole has recently been recognized as a tool for the characterization of morphology, biochemistry and function in osteoarthritis (OA). In this talk MR imaging methods related to imaging cartilage, meniscus, muscle, bone and relating the quantitative tissue imaging to function, pain and movement changes in osteoarthritis will be discussed. The joints that are typically affected by OA leading to joint replacement are the hip and knee, and in this talk we will focus on methods to quantitatively characterize these two joints. The inter-relationship between different joint tissues to gait, motion and joint loading will be explored. In addition, to MR the use of multi-modality PET-MR will be introduced, as well as newly emerging artificial intelligence methods applied to quantitative OA imaging.

May 31, Thursday (4:00 pm) at TAC N203 (300 Cedar Street)

*co-sponsored by the Neuroimaging Sciences Training Program

Refreshments served 15 minutes prior to start of seminar.
Please call 5-6199 / 5-6622 for directions.