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I’m studying for my PhD, which is a university degree where you do research/experiments in a specialist field. It’s the first step to becoming a professor 🙂

Spend my spare time playing football, climbing and playing guitar

I’m trying to use computer algorithms and artificial intelligence to improve the quality of MRI images.

This is what an MRI scanner looks like to patients:

https://www1.ethz.ch/biomed.ee/facilities/mri-user-lab/scanner_7t_small.jpg?hires

This is what an MRI scanner looks like without the covers on:

https://image.slidesharecdn.com/mrihardware-140701105329-phpapp01/95/mri-hardware-17-638.jpg?cb=1404212212

It produces pictures of the organs within a patient’s body, like this:

http://www.brainfacts.org/~/media/Brainfacts/Article%20Multimedia/About%20Neuroscience/Technologies/MRI_blackandwhite.ashx

MRI uses very strong magnets and radiowaves to produce images of your brain etc…

I spend my time design the shapes of radiowaves https://web.stanford.edu/group/bmr/wikiupload/f/f9/RFpulse.jpg and measure how this affects the images we obtain (e.g. how much detail can we see/ how smooth is the image). I test this radiowaves on my volunteers to hopefully improve MRI images for medical use.