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Stanislas Rapacchi, PhD

Senior researcher
CHUV-UNIL
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

My experience is focused on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and my research has been mostly dedicated to cardiovascular imaging. Although I am not a physician myself, I have always interacted with doctors during my training. I value these close interactions between scientific developments and clinical validations/applications. My skills as a scientist range from MRI sequence design (IDEA, Siemens) to signal and image processing. At UCLA, I focus on the improvement of fast MRI techniques for dynamic high-resolution MR Angiography and perfusion MRI. Tackling ambitious research projects with the motivation of direct clinical benefits evaluation pushes me towards personal improvement, which in turn enables me to continue contributing to challenging projects.
My current involvements imply the development of novel image reconstruction using Compressed Sensing dedicated to the application of cardiovascular MRI. The mathematical model of intensity variations is at the core of my research, but I value as much the acquisition strategy and its immediate implementation on our clinical scanners. Image reconstruction is a competitive research area, with many algorithms and solutions for a similar problem. However, the number of developments that reach the application realm remains limited due to the difficulty of validating and implementing complex image reconstructions. The focus of my research is to tackle both the development and implementation of fast MRI techniques. From this perspective, I work as much as possible at the interface between the clinical application and the research field.

Research experience
2011-Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2007-2011 Ph.D. candidate and Physics teacher Assistant, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) & Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
2008 Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA), National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHBLI/NIH), Bethesda, MD, U.S.A.
2006 Summer Research Fellow, Electrical Engineering Laboratory of Paris (LGEP), Paris, France

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