Guy Cloutier, PhD.@
Director LBUM
Full Professor, Department of Radiology, Radio-Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Université de Montréal
Research interests
Research and development in several areas related to medical imaging applied to vascular pathologies, rheological disorders of blood circulation, pathologies of the liver and tendons and cancer.. Improvements to diagnosis and follow-up of hyper-erythrocyte aggregation, a pathological state promoting blood hyper viscosity and thrombotic side-effects, arterial atherosclerosis, venous thrombosis, vascular aneurysms, and cancer tumors with new imaging methods. Development of new methods to characterize the biomechanical properties of the abovementioned pathologies by ultrasound elastography and micro optical cellular elastography. Ongoing collaborations with clinical scientists in radiology, cardiology and intensive cares basic scientists specialized in cardiovascular pathologies, biomedical engineers, medical physics and medical physicists.
François Yu, PhD.@
Director, Microbubble Theranostics Laboratory
Assistant professor and researcher, Department of Radiology, Université de Montréal
Research interests
Ultrasound contrast imaging, ultrasound targeted therapy, targeted drug delivery, microbubble cell interactions and cancer therapy.
François Destrempes, PhD. @
Research associate
Research interests
Segmentation of ultrasound images, mechanical and acoustic characterization of tissues and organs, erythrocyte aggregation, rheological disorders and venous thrombosis, breast and liver imaging.
Louise Allard, PhD. @
Scientific coordinator
Research interests
Quantitative ultrasound applied to red blood cell aggregation, medical imaging phantom design.
Guo-Xuan Xu, PhD. @
Postdoctoral fellow
Research interests
Quantitative ultrasound, viscoelastic properties for human liver lesion segmentation, high-frequency ultrasound elastography, and shear wave elasticity imaging.
Marcus Vinicius Batista da Silva, PhD. @
Postdoctoral fellow
Research interests
Validation of an analysis algorithm to measure the size of red blood cell aggregates in blood circulation using ultrasound through backscatter coefficient estimation. Abnormal red blood cell aggregation is a recognized marker of inflammatory status, and this non-invasive ultrasonic approach aims to assess infection and inflammation in chronically dialyzed and critically ill patients.
Amirhosein Baradaran Najar, PhD. @
Postdoctoral Fellow
Domaine de recherche
MRI elastography and liver cancer
Iman Rafati, PhD. @
Postdoctoral fellow
Research interests
Diagnosis of liver cancer using ultrasound.
Arnaud Héroux, B.Ing. @
PhD student
Research interests
Characterization of liver tumors by quantitative dynamic ultrasound imaging (QUS). The goal is to improve diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring in connection with the earlier detection of tumors related to liver cancers thanks to an increase in the contrast between the tumor and the surrounding environment.
Hari Nair, @
PhD student
Research interests
Focuses on optical microelastography and deep learning based reconstruction of cellular shear modulus. I aim to establish a correlation between the mechanical properties of macrophages, their phenotypic states, and corresponding biological functions, thereby contributing to a deeper understanding of immune cell mechanobiology.
Sajad Ghazavi, @
PhD student
Research interests
Cell elastography, Cell mechanics.
Mercedes David, @
PhD student
Research interests
Non-invasive soft tissue elastography for the diagnosis of musculoskeletal pathologies by ultrasound imaging. (Photo credit: CHUM and Stephane Lord photograph)
Zhao Qin, MSc. @
Research technician
Research interests
Segmentation of ultrasound images, Small animals ultrasound imaging, Histological slice, vascular phantoms.
Melissa Nyembo, @
Administration technician
Research interests
Support for researchers, students and research staff.