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I am a medical physicist, with research interests within magnetic resonance imaging; mainly within functional MRI, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and sodium imaging. Katie McMahon is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Magnetic Resonance, The University of Queensland. Dr McMahon has significant experiencing sequence programming in both Bruker and Siemens platforms, and is responsible for implementing and maintaining sequences on all 4 whole-body scanners at the University of Queensland. This researcher is involved in implementation and application of EPI methods in fMRI (functional MRI) as well as sequence and system optimisations at high field. She has been an invited speaker at Siemens Users Meeting and local SMRT Regional Education Seminar. She has been extensively involved in the development of an award winning magnetic resonance technology postgraduate program. In particularly, she has prepared the external delivery courses on MR artefacts, fast imaging, and diffusion and perfusion imaging. This researcher is also instrumental in the running of short courses on MR physics, as part of the same program. This researcher has additional interests in optimised diffusion tensor imaging, sodium imaging, and the study of muscle extension during flexing. She has national and international collaborative research links that include the Centre for Research in Language Processing and Linguistics; UCLA Laboratory of Neuro-imaging and Brain Mapping ;QIMR; McGill University, Montreal; Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane; Department of Psychology, University of Sussex; Department of Psychology, UQ; Department of Physiotherapy, UQ; Department of Psychiatry, UQ; ITEE, UQ; School of Psychiatry, University of NSW; Siemens Medical Solutions; Centre for Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Psychology.
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