RIT Magnetic Resonance Laboratory

Laboratory Personnel

Joseph P. Hornak, Ph.D.
Laboratory Director, and Professor of Chemistry & Imaging Science, RIT
Specialty: spin relaxation time measurements, instrumentation design, ESR, & MRI

Thomas D. Allston, M.S.
Instrumentation Specialist, RIT
Specialty: instrument design and NMR measurements

Thomas W. Smith, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry & Materials Science, RIT
Specialty: Polymer Science

Brittany Lipchick
Undergraduate Research Assistant, RIT
Specialty: R₁ & R₂ measurements, & chemistry

Melissa Monahan
Graduate Research Assistant, RIT
Specialty: R₁ & R₂ measurements

Sang Yun Moon
Graduate Research Assistant, RIT
Specialty: Imaging Science & MRI Resolution Phantoms

May Cheung
High School Intern, RIT
Specialty: Properties of RF coil coupling

Raliek Boswell
High School Intern, RIT
Specialty: Properties of RF coil coupling

Andreas Langner, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry, RIT
Specialty: polymer chemistry and molecular dynamics

Michael Kotlarchyk, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics, RIT
Specialty: microemulsions

Leslie J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, St. John Fisher College
Specialty: studies of molecular dynamics with NMR and ESR

Brian J. Antalek, M.S.
Research Scientist, Eastman Kodak
Specialty: NMR pulsed field gradient diffusion measurements

Saara M. Totterman, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Medical Officer, Virtual Scopics
Specialty: Clinical MRI and multispectral tissue classification

Edward R. Fearon
CEO Critical Solutions International and SAA International, Ltd.
Specialty: electronic article surveillance, military countermine & humanitarian demining solutions

Nan C. Schaller, M.S.
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, RIT
Specialty: parallel computing & computer graphics

Magnetic Resonance Laboratory
Center for Imaging Sciecne
Rochester Institute of Technology
54 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5604

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