Curriculum Vitae
Samuel A. Hurley, Ph.D.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Positron Emission Tomography Physicist
Document Last Updated: Nov 2021
Contact
Phone: +1 (608) 318-3063
Work Email: shurley[@]wisc.edu
Home Email: samuel.hurley[@]gmail.com
Skype: samuel.hurley
Web: www.paradime.net
NIH Biosketch: NIH CV
Current Research Positions
Scientist I
July 2018 – Present
Department of Radiology
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Roles: Research MRI and PET/MR Support, Clinical MRI Physicist
Past Research Positions
Research Associate
Jan 2017 - June 2018
Departments of Neuroscience and Radiology
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Advisors: Prof. Luis C. Populin, Dr. Alan McMillan
Research Fellow
Jul 2016 – Jul 2020
Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB)
(Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging)
John Radcliffe Hospital
University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire
Advisor: Professor Karla Miller
MRI Physics Support Scientist
October 2014 - March 2016
Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB)
John Radcliffe Hospital
University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire
Advisor: Professor Stuart Clare
Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellow
Sept 2013 - Aug 2014
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Advisor: Professor Andrew L. Alexander
Research Assistant
May 2008 - Aug 2013
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Advisor: Professor Andrew L. Alexander
Undergraduate Assistant
May 2007 - May 2008
Applied Neuro FMRI Lab
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Advisor: Professor M. Elizabeth Meyerand
Industry Positions
MRI Applications Scientist
April 2016 - Jan 2017
Synaptive Medical
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Toronto, ON, Canada
Teaching Experience
University of Oxford Doctoral Training Centre (DTC),
Oxford-Nottingham Biomedical Imaging Course (ONBI)
Michaelmas Term 2014, Trinity Term 2015, Michaelmas Term 2015
Image Formation, Susceptibility-Based Contrast Lectures
Tutor - MRI Physics MATLAB Tutorial
FMRIB Graduate Programme
Michaelmas Term 2015 - Physics Course Tutor
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Medical Physics 2014
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Thesis: Rapid and Accurate Single and Multi-Component Relaxometry Using Steady-State Acquisitions
Academic Advisor: Professor Andrew L. Alexander
Co-Advisors: Professor Aaron S. Field, Dr. Alexey A. Samsonov
Master of Science (M.S.), Medical Physics 2010
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics 2008
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Skills
Scientific Computing: MATLAB, C, CUDA, Python, Keras/Tensorflow, Linux/Unix Sysadmin
Pulse Programming: GE Healthcare EPIC, Siemens IDEA/ICE, Synaptive Evry, Agilent VnmrJ
FAA Private Pilot: Airplane - Single Engine Land (A-SEL)
Musician: Fringe Field - Bass Guitarist. 2010-2014, 2018-Present. www.fringe-field.com
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Kitzbichler MG, Aruldass AR, Barker GJ, Wood TC, Dowell NG, Hurley SA, McLean J, Correia M, Clarke C, Pointon L, Cavanagh J, Cowen P, Pariante C, Cercignani M. Neuroimmunology of Mood Disorders and Alzheimer’s Disease (NIMA) Consortium, Edward T. Bullmore ET, Harrison NA. Peripheral inflammation is associated with micro-structural and functional connectivity changes in depression-related brain networks. Molecular Psychiatry 2021 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01272-1
Tendler BC, Feng Q, Foxley S, Pallebage-Gamarallage M, Menke RAL, Ansorge O, Hurley SA, Miller KL. A method to remove the influence of fixative concentration on postmortem T2 maps using a kinetic tensor model. HBM 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25661
Colbert MK, Ho LC, van der Merwe Y, Yang X, McLellan GJ, Hurley SA, Field AS, Yun H, Du Y, Conner IP, Parra C, Faiq MA, Fingert JH, Wollstein G, Schuman JS, Chan K. Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Visual Pathway Abnormalities in Five Glaucoma Animal Models. IOVS 2021 62 (10), 21-21
Juryńczyk M, Klimiec-Moskal E, Kong Y, Hurley S, Messina S, Yeo T, Jenkinson M, Leite MI, Palace J. Elucidating distinct clinico-radiologic signatures in the borderland between neuromyelitis optica and multiple sclerosis. J Neurol 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-021-10619-1
Spangler-Bickell MG, Hurley SA, Pirasteh A, Perlman S, Deller T, McMillan A. Clinical Evaluation of Data-Driven Motion Corrected Reconstruction for PET Brain Imaging. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2021 62 (supplement 1) 59
Spangler‐Bickell MG, Hurley SA, Deller TW, Jansen F, Bettinardi V, Carlson M, Zeineh M, Zaharchuk G and McMillan AB. Optimizing the frame duration for data‐driven rigid motion estimation in brain PET imaging. Medical Physics 2021 ePub https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.14889
Fowler AM , Kumar M, Bancroft LH, Salem K, Johnson JM, Karow J, Perlman SB, Bradshaw TJ, Hurley SA, McMillan AB, Strigel RM. Measuring Glucose Uptake in Primary Invasive Breast Cancer Using Simultaneous Time-of-Flight Breast PET/MRI: A Method Comparison Study with Prone PET/CT. Radiology: Imaging Cancer 2021 3(1) e200091
Alvarez I, Hurley SA, AJ Parker, H Bridge. Human primary visual cortex shows larger population receptive fields for binocular disparity-defined stimuli. bioRxiv 2021 https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.10.434843
Deller TW, Mathew NK, Hurley SA, Bobb CM, McMillan AB. PET Image Quality Improvement for Simultaneous PET/MRI with a Lightweight MRI Surface Coil. Radiology 2021 298 (1):166-172
Collick BD, Behzadnezhad B, Hurley SA, Mathew NK, Behdad N, Lindsay SA, Robb F, Stormont RS, McMillan AB. Rapid development of application-specific flexible MRI receive coils. Phys Med Bio 2020 65 19NT01
Birn RM, Converse AK, Rajala AZ, Alexander AL, Block WF, McMillan AB, Christian BT, Filla CN, Murali D, Hurley SA, Jenison RL, Populin LC. Changes in Endogenous Dopamine Induced by Methylphenidate Predict Functional Connectivity in Nonhuman Primates. J Neurosci. 2019 Feb 20;39(8):1436-1444. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2513-18.2018
Schmid AB, Campbell J, Hurley SA, Jbabdi S, Andersson JL, Jenkinson M, Bangerter NK, Bennett DL, Tracey I, Frost R, Clare S. Feasibility of Diffusion Tensor and Morphologic Imaging of Peripheral Nerves at Ultra-High Field Strength. Invest Radiol. 2018 Dec;53(12):705-713. doi: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000492
Heath F, Hurley SA, Johansen-Berg H, Sampaio-Baptista C. Advances in noninvasive myelin imaging. Dev Neurobiol. 2017 Oct 30. doi: 10.1002/dneu.22552. [Epub ahead of print]
Dean DC, Hurley SA, Kecskemeti SR, O'Grady JP, Canda C, Davenport-Sis NJ, Carlsson CM, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Asthana S, Sager MA, Johnson SC, Alexander AL, Bendlin BB. Association of Amyloid Pathology With Myelin Alteration in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease. JAMA Neurol. 2017;74(1):41-49. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.3232
Wood TC, Simmons C, Hurley SA, Vernon AC, Torres J, Dell’Acqua F, Williams SCR, Cash D. Whole-brain ex-vivo quantitative MRI of the cuprizone mouse model. (2016) PeerJ 4:e2632 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2632
Dean DC III, Sojkova J, Hurley S, Kecskemeti S, Okonkwo O, Bendlin BB, et al. Alterations of Myelin Content in Parkinson’s Disease: A Cross-Sectional Neuroimaging Study. PLoS ONE 2016;11(10): e0163774. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0163774
Grissom WA, Setsompop K, Hurley SA, Tsao J, Velikina JV, Samsonov AA. Advancing RF pulse design using an open-competition format: Report from the 2015 ISMRM challenge. Magn Reson Med. 2017 Oct;78(4):1352-1361. doi: 10.1002/mrm.26512
Goskan S, Hartley C, Hurley SA, Winkler AM, Duff EP, Jenkinson M, Rogers R, Clare S, Slater R. Optimal echo time (TE) for functional MRI of the infant brain identified in response to noxious stimulation. MRM 2016 Sept 21. (doi: 10.1002/mrm.26455 Epub ahead of print)
Lewis CM, Hurley SA, Meyerand ME, Koay CG. Data-driven optimized flip angle selection for T1 estimation from spoiled gradient echo acquisitions. MRM 2016;76(3):792-802. doi: 10.1002/mrm.25920. Epub 2015 Sep 12.
Venkateswaran M, Unal O, Hurley S, Samsonov A, Wang P, Fain S, Kurpad K. Modeling Endovascular MRI Coil Coupling with Transmit RF Excitation. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2016 Mar 4. PubMed PMID: 26960218; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5011021.
Kecskemeti SR, Samsonov AA, Hurley SA, Dean DC, Field AS, Alexander AL. MPnRAGE: A technique to simultaneously acquire hundreds of differently contrasted MPRAGE images with applications to quantitative T1 mapping. MRM 2016;75(3):1040-1053. doi: 10.1002/mrm.25674. Epub 2015 Apr 17.
Emborg ME, Hurley SA, Joers V, Tromp do PM, Swanson CR, Ohshima-Hosoyama S, Bondarenko V, Cummisford K, Sonnemans M, Hermening S, Blits B, Alexander AL. Titer and product affect the distribution of gene expression after intraputaminal convection-enhanced delivery. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 2014;92(3):182-94. doi: 10.1159/000360584. Epub 2014 Jun 12.
Osting S, Bennett A, Power S, Wackett J, Hurley SA, Alexander AL, Agbandje-Mckena M, Burger C. Differential effects of two MRI contrast agents on the integrity and distribution of rAAV2 and rAAV5 in the rat striatum. Mol Ther Methods Clin Dev 2014;1:4
Liu F, Chaudhary R, Hurley SA, Munoz Del Rio A, Alexander AL, Samsonov A, Block WF, Kijowski R. Rapid multicomponent T2 analysis of the articular cartilage of the human knee joint at 3.0T. J Magn Reson Imaging 2014:39(5):1191-1197
Alexander AL, Hurley SA, Samsonov AA, Adluru N, Hosseinbor AP, Mossahebi P, Tromp DPM, Zakszewski E, Field AS. Characterization of Cerebral White Matter Properties Using Quantitative MRI Stains. Brain Connectivity 2011;1(6):423-466
Hurley SA, Yarnykh VL, Johnson KM, Field AS, Alexander AL, Samsonov AA. Simultaneous Variable Flip Angle-Actual Flip Angle Imaging Method for Improved Accuracy and Precision of Three-Dimensional T1 and B1 Measurements. MRM 2012;68:54-64
Cheng GK, Hurley SA, Meyerand ME. Extremely efficient and deterministic approach to generating optimal ordering of diffusion MRI measurements. Med Phys 2011;38(8):4795–4801
Yang X, Hong H, Grailer JJ, Rowland IJ, Javadi A, Hurley SA, Xiao Y, Yang Y, Zhang Y, Nickles RJ, Cai W, Steeber DA, Gong S. cRGD-functionalized, DOX-conjugated, and 64Cu-labeled superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for targeted anticancer drug delivery and PET/MR imaging. Biomaterials 2011;32(17):4151-4160
Yang X, Grailer JJ, Rowland IJ, Javadi A, Hurley SA, Matson VZ, Steeber DA, Gong S. Multifunctional Stable and pH-Responsive Polymer Vesicles Formed by Heterofunctional Triblock Copolymer for Targeted Anticancer Drug Delivery and Ultrasensitive MR Imaging. ACS Nano 2010;4(11):6805-6817
Yang X, Grailer JJ, Rowland IJ, Javadi A, Hurley SA, Steeber DA, Gong S. Multifunctional SPIO/DOX-loaded wormlike polymer vesicles for cancer therapy and MR imaging. Biomaterials 2010;31(34):9065-9073
US Patents
US848284 B2. Cheng Guan Koay and Hurley, Samuel A. Method for Determining and Ordering K-Space Views and Diffusion Weighted Directions. Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, assignee. 9-July-2013.
Conference Proceedings - Primary Author
Hurley SA, Johnson JM, McMillan AB. DeepTOPUP: Distortion Correction of Spin Echo EPI from Phase-Reversed Acquisitions using Deep Learning. In: Proceedings of the ISMRM Workshop on Machine Learning Part II, Washington, DC, USA 2018.
Hurley SA, Johnson JM, Bendlin BB, McMillan AB. Quantitative Synthetic T1 Mapping of the Brain from Structural Imaging using Deep Learning (Traditional Poster, Abstract #2772) In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Paris, France 2018
Hurley SA, McMillan AB. A Method to Quantitatively Assess and Compare Diffusion MRI Protocols between MR Systems (Traditional Poster, Abstract #1665) In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Paris, France 2018
Hurley SA, Rajala AZ, Filla CN, Birn RM, Block WF, Alexander AL, Converse AK, Zammit MD, Christian BT, McMillan AB, Populin LC. PET/MR Platform for Neuroscience in Awake Behaving Non-Human Primates (Traditional Poster) In: ISMRM-SNMMI Workshop on PET/MRI, Chicago, IL, USA 2017
Hurley SA, Alexander AL. Assessment of mcDESPOT Precision Using Constrained Estimation (Traditional Poster, Abstract #3144) In: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Milan, Lombardy, Italy 2014
Hurley SA, Mossahebi P, Johnson KM, Samsonov AA. Simultaneous Mapping of B1 and Flip Angle by Combined Bloch-Siegert, Actual Flip-angle Imaging (BS-AFI) (Oral Presentation, Abstract #0050) In: Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2012
Hurley SA, Tromp DPM, Emborg ME, Ohshima-Hosoyama S, Brady M, Raghavan R, Kubota K, Alexander AL. MR Monitoring of Non Contrast-enhanced brain infusion with MRI T1 Mapping (Traditional Poster, Abstract #0048) In: Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2012 *Interventional Study Group Top 10 Poster Award.
Hurley SA, Yarnykh VL, Samsonov AA. Spoiling properties of the VAFI method for fast simultaneous T1 and B1 mapping from actual flip-angle imaging (AFI) and variable flip-angle (VFA) data. (E-Poster, Abstract #4488) In: Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2011
Hurley SA*, Mossahebi P*, Samsonov AA, Alexander AL, Deoni SC, Fisher R, Duncan ID, Field AS. Multicomponent Relaxometry (mcDESPOT) in the Shaking Pup Model of Dysmyelination. (E-Poster, Abstract #0088) In: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Stockholm, Sweden 2010
Hurley SA, Samsonov AA. Accurate and Efficient Mapping of Flip Angle and T1 using Simultaneous Actual Flip Angle - Variable Flip Angle Imaging. (E-Poster, Abstract #4480) In: Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Honolulu, HI, USA 2009
*Equal contribution among starred authors.
Conference Proceedings - Contributing Author
Wille CM, Hurley S, Kijowski R, Heiderscheit BC. Region of Interest Definition for Diffusion Tensor Imaging following Acute Hamstring Strain Injuries. Scientific Presentation (ePoster). Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting, Dec 2020.
Block WF, Birn R, Olsen M, Hurley SA, Brodsky EK, Rajala A, Filla C, McMillan A, Alexander AL, Jenison RL, Populin LC. MR-Guided Pharmacological Intervention: Creating Causal Capabilities for fMRI (Oral Presentation, Abstract #1054) In: 27th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2019
Birn RM, Hurley SA, Rajala AZ, Filla CN, Patrick AM, Gwozdz DJ, Block WF, Alexander AL, Converse AK, Jenison RL, Christian BT, McMillan AB, Populin LC. PET/MR Platform for Neuroscience in Awake Behaving Non-Human Primates (Traditional Poster, Abstract #3030) In: 26th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Paris, France 2018
Clarke C, Kitzbichler M, Barker G, Correia M, Dowell N, Hurley SA, Mclean J, Wood TC, NIMA Consortium, Cercignani M, Bullmore E, Harrison N. BIOmarkers of DEPression (BIODEP) study: Raised peripheral inflammation associated with changes in striatal microstructure (E-Poster, Abstract #3661) In: 26th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Paris, France 2018
Feng Q, Hurley SA, Pallebage-Gamarallage M, Ansorge O, Turner M, Menke R, Foxley S, Miller KL. Correction of Fixation Effects in Post-Mortem T2 Measurements Using a Kinetic Tensor Model (E-Poster, Abstract #3728) In: 25th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2017
Metere R, Hurley SA, Pampel A, Miller KL, Möller H. A Singular Value Decomposition Approach to Quantitative Magnetization Transfer (Traditional Poster, Abstract #1969) In: 25th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2017
Wood TC, Simmons C, Torres J, Dell'Acqua F, Vernon A, Hurley SA, Williams S, Cash D. Whole-Brain Ex-Vivo Imaging of Demyelination in the Cuprizone Mouse with McDESPOT and DTI (Traditional Poster, Abstract #1317) In: 24th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Republic of Singapore, 2016
Alexander D, Ghosh A, Hurley SA, Sotiropoulos S. Image Quality Transfer Benefits Tractography of Low-Resolution Data (Oral, Abstract #0120) In: 24th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Republic of Singapore, 2016
Bouyagoub S, Dowell N, Hurley SA, Wood TC, Cercignani M. Overestimation of CSF Fraction in NODDI: Possible Correction Techniques and the Effect on Neurite Density and Orientation Dispersion Measures (E-Poster, Abstract #0007) In: 22nd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Milan, Lombardy, Italy 2014
Wood TC, Hurley SA, Barker GJ, Williams SCR. An SSFP Signal Equation with Finite RF Pulses and Exchanging Water Pools (Traditional Poster, Abstract #1464) In: 22nd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Milan, Lombardy, Italy 2014
Chaudhary R, Liu F, Sritanyaratana N, Kaiser JM, Hurley SA, Block WF, Kijowski R. Sensitivity of Multicomponent Driven Equilibrium Single Observation of T1 and T2 (mcDESPOT) to Magic Angle Effects in Bovine Articular Cartilage at 3.0T (Oral Presentation, Abstract #0149) In: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Milan, Lombardy, Italy 2014
McLellan GL, Hurley SA, Mossahebi P, Ellinwood NM, Field AS. Quantitative MRI-derived optic nerve microstructural features in a feline glaucoma model. ARVO-ISIE Imaging Conference, Orlando, Florida, May 2014
Grabow BP, Kubota K, Raghavan R, Brady M, Ross C, Hurley SA, Brodsky EK. Real-Time Monitoring For Systematic Investigation Of Catheter Design And Infusion Protocol Effect On CED Performance. In: 17th International Congress Of Parkinson's Disease And Movement Disorders, Volume 28, Sydney, Australia, 16-20 June 2013.
Grabow BP, Raghavan R, Brady M, Kubota K, Ross C, Hurley SA, Brodsky EK, Raschke J, Alexander AL, Block WF. Real-Time Monitoring For Systematic Investigation Of Catheter Design And Infusion Protocol Effect On CED Performance. In: 21st Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 2013.
Kecskemeti S, Adluru N, Hurley S, Alexander AL. Multi-spectral T1 Weighted Imaging and T1 Quantification using 3D Radial k-space Trajectory (Traditional Poster, Abstract #0452) In: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 2013
Liu F, Chaudhary R, Hurley SA, Samsonov AA, Alexander AL, Deoni SCL, Block WF, Kijowski R. Multi-Component T2 Analysis of Cartilage Degradation Model Using mcDESPOT at 3.0T (Traditional Poster, Abstract #1655) In: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 2013
Liu F, Hurley SA, Samsonov AA, Alexander AL, Deoni SCL, Block WF, Kijowski R. Multi-Component T2 Analysis of Articular Cartilage with Synovial Fluid Partial Volume Correction using mcDESPOT at 3.0T (Oral Presentation, Abstract #0636) In: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 2013
Wood TC, Hurley SA, Vernon A, Williams SCR. High Resolution Imaging of Rodent Brains at 7T. (Traditional Poster, Abstract #2465) In: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 2013
Ollinger JM, Hurley SA, Alexander AL, Riedy G. A Constrained Estimator of Myelin Water Fraction from Steady-State Data (Traditional Poster, Abstract #4210) In: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 2013
Venkateswaran M, Hurley SA, Samsonov AA, Wang P, Unal O, Kurpad KN. An Accurate Electromagnetic Field Model for Optimization and Selection of Intravascular Multimode Coil Geometry (Traditional Poster, Abstract #4317) In: 21st Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 2013
Hutchinson, E., Elangbam, N., Hurley, SA., Alexander, A., Rutecki, P., Sutula, T. Quantitative Manganese-enhanced MRI detection of differences between kindling-susceptible and kindling-resistant strains of rats. In: Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA, USA October 2012.
Grabow BP, Block WF, Hurley SA, Sillay KA, Brodsky EK. Accessible Animal Models for Interventional Neurosurgery Training and Research (Poster Presentation, Abstract #112) In: 9th International Interventional MRI Symposium, Boston, MA, USA 2012.
Venkateswaran M, Kurpad KN, Hurley SA, Wang P, Unal O. Endovascular Multimode Coil Characterization Using B1 Field Mapping (Poster Presentation, Abstract #087) In: 9th International Interventional MRI Symposium, Boston, MA, USA 2012.
Liu F, Hurley SA, Sritanyaratana N, Block WF, Kijowski R. Multi-Exponential T2 Mapping of Human Patellar Cartilage Using mcDESPOT (Oral Presentation, Abstract #4365) In: Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2012
Tromp DPM, Emborg ME, Hurley SA, Adluru N, Brady ML, Raghavan R, Kubota K, Alexander AL. Retrospective R1 Atlas Mapping of Brain Infusions (Traditional Poster, Abstract #3830) In: Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2012
Brodsky EK, Block WF, Alexander AL, Grabow BP, Hurley SA, Ross CD, Sillay KA. Intraoperative Targeting, Trajectory Planning, Device Insertion and Infusion Monitoring with Real-Time MRI (Oral Presentation) In: International MRA Club 23rd Annual Conference, Bannf, Alberta, Canada. September 2011.
Velikina JV, Hurley SA, Alexander AL, Samsonov AA. Accelerating Multi-Component Relaxometry in Steady State with an Application of Constrained Reconstruction in Parametric Dimension. (Abstract #2740) In: Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2011
Sritanyaratana N, Samsonov AA, Hurley SA, Johnson KM, Mossahebi P, Block WF, Kijowski R.Quantitative Magnetization Transfer of Entire Human Patellofemoral Joint in 30 Minutes. (E-Poster, Abstract #4318) In: Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2011
Hosseinbor AP, Duncan ID, Alexander AL, Samsonov AA, Wu Y-C, Hurley SA, Fisher RA, Field AS. Hybrid Diffusion Imaging in a Spinal Cord Model of Dysmyelination. (Traditional Poster, Abstract #2135) In: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Stockholm, Sweden 2010
Lopas LA, Moirano JM, Kurpad KN, Hurley SA, Converse AK. Design, Construction, and Testing of RF Coil and Animal Body Holder for Simultaneous PET/MRI Imaging of Rat Brain. (Traditional Poster) BrainPET (2009)
Conference Attendance
Annual Meeting of ISMRM
May 2019 - 27th - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
June 2018 - 26th - Paris, France
April 2017 - 25th - Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
May 2015 - 23rd - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
May 2014 - 22nd - Milan, Lombardy, Italy. (UW Vilas Travel Grant awardee)
May 2012 - 20th - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. (Student stipend award winner)
May 2011 - 19th - Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Student stipend award winner)
May 2010 - 18th - Stockholm, Sweden
May 2009 - 17th - Honolulu, Hawai`i, United States of America. (Student stipend award winner)
May 2008 - 16th - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Other
October 2019 - SNMMI & ISMRM Co-Provided PET/MRI Workshop - New York, NY (oral presentation)
October 2018 - ISMRM Workshop on Machine Learning, Part II. (poster presentation)
October 2017 - ISMRM-SNMMI Workshop on PET/MRI - Chicago, IL (poster presentation)
March 2011 - IEEE International Society of Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) - Chicago, IL. (Student stipend award)
January 2011 - National MS Society (NMSS) Repair 2010 Investigator's Meeting - New York, NY
Projects
Quantitative MRI Analysis Package - Samsonov AA, Mossahebi P, Hurley SA. www.qmri.net/qmap
A collection of quantitative MRI analysis software written in Matlab. This includes mathematical models of MRI sequences for measurement of quantitative parameters including T1, T2, bound pool fraction, and exchange rates.
ISMRM Challenge - Organizing Committee Member. www.ismrm.org/challenge
ISMRM Challenge is an initiative to foster impactful innovation in MRI applications and methodology through a series of year-around competitions. It is based on the premise of individuals and teams submitting reconstruction codes, which are tested and scored against a series of test cases in an automated fashion.
2012-2013 Challenge: Robust Fat/Water Separation
2013-2014 Challenge: Sub-Nyquist Reconstruction of Dynamic Imaging
2015-2016 Challenge: Radiofrequency (RF) Pulse Design
Professional Associations
ISMRM (International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine) - Member (2008-Present)
Kappa Eta Kappa (Professional Electrical Engineering Fraternity) - National President (Feb 2011-Feb 2012; Feb 2013-Mar 2015); Alumni Director (2013-2014); Treasurer (2014-Present)