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Janusz H. Hankiewicz, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor

Current Research Interest

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
•localized spectroscopy

Magnetic Resonance microimaging
•cardiac imaging
•cardiac tagging
•myocardial strain analysis

Training and Positions

Ph.D.in Solid State NMR, A. Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, 1988

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Texas Center for High Temperature Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 1991

Visiting Scholar, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1993

Assistant Professor, A. Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 1994-present

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, 1998-present

Program in Integrative Cardiac Metabolism, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, June 2003-present http://www.uic.edu/depts/mcpb/pages/lewandowski/IntegrativeCardiacMetabolism/index.htm

Equipment

Bruker AVANCE NMR spectrometer
- 14.1 T Bruker 89mm vertical bore magnet
- multinuclear console
- micro-imaging system with 100 Gs/cm gradient coils,
 
 
 
 

Some Experimental Results

   
Imaging of perfused rat heart. a) saggital localizer, b) axial image, c) myocardial wall motion between mid-diastole and mid-systole.
     
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Tagged cardiac mid-ventricular axial images of a mouse heart using DANTE saturation and gradient-echo sequence: a) end diastolic and b) mid systolic, c) coronal localizer. Imaging parameters: TR=250ms, TE=1.9ms, FOV=25mm (axial images cropped to show 10x10mm area), acquisition matrix 256x256 (1024x1024 after reconstruction), slice thickness 1mm, acquisition time < 10min, tag grid spacing is 0.3mm.
     
a) b) c)
Tagged images data analysis: a) regional myocardial wall motion, b) map of E1 strain tensor, c) map of E2 strain tensor. Red and blue colors indicate stretch and shortening, respectively. Strain analysis program courtesy of Drs. Xin Yu and Wei Liu.
     

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