From: Mirja Peltola Sent: 22. lokakuuta 2018 15:16 To: LTK ltk-staff@oulu.fi; fbmm@lists.oulu.fi; bco@lists.oulu.fi; 'mrcouluohjaajat@lists.oulu.fi' mrcouluohjaajat@lists.oulu.fi; hbsdp@lists.oulu.fi Subject: Thursday, Nov 15th: Functional studies of cartilage by microscopic imaging - presentation by prof Yang Xia

Hello everyone,

For your information.

On Thursday 15th of November there will an interesting presentation with a title:

Functional studies of cartilage by microscopic imaging

Time: Thursday 15th of November, starting at 14:30

Location: Lecture hall P117, Kontinkangas Campus

Speaker: Professor Yang Xia

PhD, Distinguished Professor

Professor of Physics

Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)

Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)

Department of Physics and Center for Biomedical Research, Oakland University, USA

Web: http://www.oakland.edu/~xia

Information about the speaker: A Brief Bio Yang Xia completed his MSc (1989) and PhD (1992) dissertation research under the guidance of Sir Paul T Callaghan at the Physics and Biophysics Department of Massey University (New Zealand). The topics of his dissertations were the physics of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and the quantitative MRI of polymer dynamics and plant vascular flows at microscopic resolutions. His first experiment on flow and diffusion was published together with the first introduction of q-space concept in MRI in 1988 (J Phys E: Sci Instrum 21, 820, 1988). After a two-year postdoctoral research at Cornell University (Ithaca, New York), Yang joined the Physics Faculty at Oakland University in 1994 and now holds the rank of Distinguished Professor (in Medical Physics).

The main research focus in the Xia Lab at Oakland University is the study of cartilage degradation associated with osteoarthritis and other joint diseases, using multidisciplinary microscopic imaging techniques, including microscopic magnetic resonance imaging (µMRI), polarized light microscopy (PLM), Fourier-transform infrared imaging (FTIRI), microscopic computer tomography (µCT), biochemical assays and biomechanical testing. His research has been funded continuously since 1999 by four 5-year R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Reference: Y Xia and K Momot, the Editors of a 24-chapter book titled "Biophysics and Biochemistry of Cartilage by NMR and MRI", published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (Cambridge, UK) on Nov 16, 2016. (ISBN 978-1-78262-133-1; DOI 10.1039/9781782623663)

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