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David Atkinson is a Professor of Imaging in Medicine. He previously worked in MRI at Guy’s Hospital, London and in CMIC at UCL. Since 2011 he has been based in the UCL Centre for Medical Imaging, where he continues to research and develop new acquisition and processing methods for MRI and PET/MRI, whilst also facilitating multiple academic studies and enhancements to the NHS service.
- Summary of current research funding
Position Project Title Funder Duration (months) Start Year Grant award Co-I Novel Microstructural (VERDICT And T2 Mapping) And Metabolic (hyperpolarised 13C-Pyruvate) MR In Diagnosis, Risk-stratification, Active Surveillance And Treatment Response Assessment Of Prostate Cancer
Cancer Research UK 60 2018 £1,342,215 Co-I RISAPS Rivaroxaban in Stroke patients with AntiPhospholipid Syndrome.
Versus Arthritis (formerly Arthritis Research UK)
48 2018 £1,069,000
Co-I Advanced MRI for the assessment of placental function in Fetal Growth Restriction RRT 2017 £5,000
Co-I PhD Studentship: Attenuation Estimation of MRI hardware in high resolution PET-MRI
Siemens-EPSRC 48 2021 £120,000 Co-I Collaborative Computational Project in Synergistic Reconstruction for Biomedical Imaging (CCP SyneRBI) EPSRC 60 2020 £476,000
- Recent Projects
Position Project Title Funder Duration (months) Start Year Grant award PI Turing Fellow: Machine Learning for MRI Motion Correction
Alan Turing Institute 24 2018 £10,000 + £11,000 Co-PI AI and MR physics simulation to assess low-cost, low-field MRI as a cancer screening tool CRUK 12 2019 £96,000 PI Application of inverse problems and modelling to the correction of artefacts in prostate diffusion MRI Cancer Research UK / EPSRC
Multi-disciplinary Award
36 2016 £400,000 Co-I
RECLAIM Reclassifying constipation using MRI.
MRC Experimental Challenge Grant
36 2016 £1,600,000 Co-I A framework for efficient synergistic spatiotemporal reconstruction of PET-MR dynamic data EPSRC (CCP Flagship)
36 2017 £520,000 Co-I GiftSurg Image-Guided Intrauterine Minimally Invasive Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy Wellcome / EPSRC Innovative Engineering for Health Award
84 2014 £10,000,000 Co-I Collaborative Computational Project in PET-MR (CCP PETMR) EPSRC
60 2015 £520,000 Co-I PET-MRI of the lung Siemens / UCL Impact Award for 3 PhD studentships. 36 2016 £150,000 Supervisor Supervised 2 PhD students, Motion correction and Super-resolution in abdominal MRI, and, Quantitative Information from Bowel Motility. (1 completed, 1 withdrawn) UCL EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Medical Imaging 96 2014 £5,686,852 Co-I Supervised 2 completed PhD students CRUK & EPSRC Cancer Imaging Centre at KCL & UCL
60 2013 £3,600,000
- Publications
Publications are listed at these sources:
Google Scholar (updates automatically)
Web of Science (includes ResearcherID and formerly Publons)
- Other Links
An unofficial guide regarding personal tuition is here.
UCL eResearch Domain 3rd Symposium.
SIRF reconstruction framework
Reconstruction tutorial (Mark Chiew, Oxford)
Stanford-RAD229 YouTube playlist of MR-related videos