Senior Lecturer
Imperial College London
London, England, United States
Dr Sonia Nielles-Vallespin is a Senior Lecturer in Physics of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance at Imperial College London, and Head of CMR Physicist at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. She completed her MSc in Medical Imaging at Aberdeen University (UK), and her PhD in Sodium Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) and Heidelberg University (Germany). She has worked as a Senior Scientist at Siemens Healthcare MR R&D and as a Staff Scientist at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute in the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, USA). She is lucky to lead a wonderful team of physicists and computer scientists. Her team's research currently focusses on characterising myocardial microstructural dynamics during cardiac contraction non-invasively and non-destructively using in vivo Diffusion Tensor Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (DT-CMR). In vivo DT-CMR offers huge potential for technical innovation and it is already providing novel insights into microstructural abnormalities of regional cardiac function inaccessible by any currently available clinical test.
Dark blood motion compensated spin echo cardiac diffusion tensor imaging
Saturday, February 7, 2026
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM
