Biomedical Engineering Faculty

Mark D. Does

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

Office: SC5820/BME, AAA-3125 Medical Center North/VUIIS
Email Address: mark.does [at] vanderbilt.edu
Phone Number: 8352/VUIIS, 615-322-8352/BME
FAX: 615-322-0734/BME

Education
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, 1997,
University Of Alberta, Edmonton

M.S. Electrical Engineering, 1993,
University Of Alberta, Edmonton

B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1991,
University Of Alberta, Edmonton

Research interests:
-Characterization of Neural Tissue and Skeletal Muscle with MRI using Relaxation, Magnetization Transfer, and Diffusion

-Compartmental Modeling of Water Proton Relaxation and Diffusionwith computational methods, chemical phantoms, and compartment-specific contrast agents

-Cortical Bone Imaging with Magnetic Resonance

-Development/Optimization of MRI pulse sequencefor rapid relaxometryfor diffusion measurement at very short diffusion times for small animal cardiac imaging, for MR microscopy ( VUIIS*)