Itamar Ronen, Ph.D.
Work: 617-414-2360
Email: itamar@bu.edu
2003-present
Boston University, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine.
2002-2003
University of Minnesota, Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research.
2001-2002
University of Minnesota, research associate at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research.
1998-2001
University of Minnesota, post-doctoral associate at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research.
1996,1997
University of Minnesota, guest student at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research. Supervisor: Prof. Kamil Ugurbil. Purpose of visits: performing in vivo experiments using proton detected 17O-MRI
1991-1998
Tel Aviv University, Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry. Advisor: Prof. Gil Navon.
Thesis title: A New Method for Proton Detected 17O NMR with Possible Applications to Functional MRI. (Degree received June 1999)
1990-1991
University of Siena (Italy), visiting student at the department of Physical Chemistry. Supervisor: Prof. Gianni Valensin. Area of research: Chemical Exchange in the Presence of Paramagnetic Ions.
1987-1990
Tel Aviv University, M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry including additional courses from the School of Physics*. Advisor: Prof. Gil Navon.
Thesis title: Demonstration of a Method for Extracting 2D NMR Information from a Reduced Set of Selected 1D Experiments. (Degree Received May 1991)
1984-1987
Tel Aviv University, B.Sc. in chemistry and a section in applied mathematics*
1980-1984
Military service (Israeli Defence Force)
* Cum Laude
Itamar Ronen: LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Full Papers
1. I. Ronen, G. Adriany, K. Ugurbil and D.-S. Kim, Investigation of Water Diffusion in Cat Brain Using a Combined MTC-DWI Approach, Magn. Reson. Med., submitted (2003).
2. I. Ronen, K.-H. Kim, M. Garwood, K. Ugurbil and D.-S. Kim, Conventional DTI versus Slow and Fast Diffusion Tensors in Cat Visual Cortex, Magn. Reson. Med., 49, 785-790 (2003)
3. Olman C, Ronen I, Ugurbil K, Kim DS., Retinotopic mapping in cat visual cortex using high-field functional magnetic resonance imaging, J Neurosci Methods. 2003 Dec 30; 131(1-2): 161-70
4. Dae-Shik Kim, Itamar Ronen, Cheryl Olman, Seong-Gi Kim, Kamil Ugurbil and Louis J. Toth, Spatial relationship between neuronal activity and BOLD functional MRI, Neuroimage, Available online 9 January 2004.
5. I. Ronen, S.-G. Kim, Measurement of Intravascular Na+ during Increased CBF Using 23Na NMR with a Shift Reagent, NMR in Biomed., 14, 448-452 (2001)
6. I. Ronen, G. Navon, Indirect Detection of H217O as a New Modality for Brain Metabolic Functional Imaging, Proceedings of the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi”, B. Maraviglia (ed.), 477-492 (1999)
7. I. Ronen, H. Merkle, K. Ugurbil and G. Navon, Imaging of H217O Distribution in the Brain of a Live Rat Using Proton Detected 17O-MRI, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 12934-12939 (1998)
8. I. Ronen, J.-H. Lee, H. Merkle, K. Ugurbil and G. Navon, Imaging H217O Distribution in a Phantom and Measurement of Metabolically Produced H217O in Live Mice by Proton NMR, NMR in Biomed., 10, 333-340 (1997)
9. I. Ronen and G. Navon, A New Method for Proton Detection of H217O with Potential Applications for Functional MRI, Magn. Reson. Med, 32, 789-793 (1994)
Patent
G. Navon and I. Ronen, Method of Measuring the 17O Content and Distribution in a Body.
U.S. Patent No. 5,479,924 (1996).
International Meetings: Invited Lectures
1. Proton Detection of H217O as a Potential Tool in Functional MRI. Bat-Sheva Seminar
on Functional Brain Imaging, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 5-10, 1994.
2. Density Matrix Formalism and Fourier Transform in NMR, Magnetic Resonance Discussion Group, Siena University, Italy, December 1991.
Current Research Projects:
Project Collaborators
Neural Correlate of BOLD and CBF Dae-Shik Kim, Seong-Gi Kim, Kamil Ugurbil, CMRR/University of Minnesota
Louis Toth, Harvard Med. School
Neural Activation Measured with 23Na-NMR Kamil Ugurbil, Seong-Gi Kim, CMRR/University of Minnesota
Point Spread Function of BOLD and CBF Dae-Shik Kim, Kamil Ugurbil, CMRR/University of Minnesota
Louis Toth, Boston University
Reduced 3D fMRI experiments using a modified “keyhole” acquisition scheme Dae-Shik Kim, Kamil Ugurbil, CMRR/University of Minnesota, Gary Glover, Stanford U.
Combining Connectivity and Function: DTI and fMRI in Cats. Dae-Shik Kim, CMRR/University of Minnesota
Elia Formisano, Rainer Goebel, U. Maastricht, The Netherlands
DslowTI and the characterization of cat gray matter Dae-Shik Kim, Michael Garwood, CMRR/University of Minnesota
Separation of intra- and extracellular contributions to DTI, combination of DTI with MT experiments. Dae-Shik Kim, Michael Garwood, CMRR/University of Minnesota
Effects of Drug Use and Cessation on Monkey Brain Marilyn Carroll, dept. of psychiatry, University of Minnesota
Funding:
NIH-NIDA R21 “Effects of Drug Use and Cessation on Monkey Brain”
