Hernan J. Jara, PhD

Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Hernan Jara is a medical imaging physicist and Professor of Radiology at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and Adjunct-Professor of Biomedical Engineering. After completing his doctoral degree in physics from the University of Illinois at Chicago, he received his postdoctoral training in medical imaging at the University of Pennsylvania earning a Training Fellowship in MRI from the NIH. Dr. Jara was also a postdoctoral Research Associate for two years at the Laboratory for Structural NMR Imaging at the University of Pennsylvania. He work was in the development of MRI mircoscopy pulse sequences. Dr. Jara is currently the co-director of the Master of Arts Program in Bioimaging. He has extensive teaching, curriculum development, and research mentoring experience at the undergraduate (biomedical engineering) and graduate levels (masters students in Bioimaging, medical students, and radiology residents). Dr. Jara has also extensive experience in radiological research, specifically in the areas of pulse sequence development and image processing, algorithm development for multispectral quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI), for magnetic resonance angiograpy (MRA), and for MRI microscopy. He has pioneered new techniques for virtual MRI-a technique with which MR images of arbitrary contrast weighting can be generated from a single multispectral qMRI scan–being the inventor in three United States patents (US6,823,205 B1, US 6,917,199, and US 7,002,345. He has also participated in qMRI studies of liver volumetry and cancer diagnosis.

Publications

  • Published 4/9/2025

    Jara H, Farris CW. Editorial for "Altered Brain Functional Networks in Patients With Breast Cancer After Different Cycles of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy". J Magn Reson Imaging. 2025 Apr 09. PMID: 40202357.

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  • Published 2/19/2025

    Shen G, Zhu Y, Li M, McNaughton R, Jara H, Andersson SB, Farris CW, Anderson S, Zhang X. Regularization by Neural Style Transfer for MRI Field-Transfer Reconstruction with Limited Data. ArXiv. 2025 Feb 19. PMID: 40034133.

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  • Published 9/13/2024

    Jalnapurkar I, Oran A, Frazier JA, Cochran D, Kim S, Jensen E, Joseph R, Hooper SR, Santos H, Jara H, Kuban KCK, Msall ME, Singh R, Washburn L, Gogcu S, Hanson S, Venuti L, Fry RC, O'Shea TM. Maternal and psychosocial antecedents of anxiety and depression in extremely low gestational age newborns at age 15 years. Front Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2024; 3:1334316. PMID: 39816584.

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  • Published 9/20/2022

    Hua N, Minaeva O, Lupoli N, Franz ES, Liu X, Moncaster JA, Babcock KJ, Jara H, Tripodis Y, Guermazi A, Soto JA, Anderson SW, Goldstein LE. Gadolinium Deposition in the Rat Brain Measured with Quantitative MRI versus Elemental Mass Spectrometry. Radiology. 2023 Jan; 306(1):244-251. PMID: 36125373.

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  • Published 8/30/2022

    Jara H, Sakai O, Farrher E, Oros-Peusquens AM, Shah NJ, Alsop DC, Keenan KE. Primary Multiparametric Quantitative Brain MRI: State-of-the-Art Relaxometric and Proton Density Mapping Techniques. Radiology. 2022 Oct; 305(1):5-18. PMID: 36040334.

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Other Positions

  • Graduate Faculty (Primary Mentor of Grad Students)
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences

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Education

  • University of Illinois, PhD
  • University of Chile, MS
  • University of Chile, BS

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