Rate My Professor Helen Marshall

Dr Helen Marshall is a Research Staff Scientist in the School of Medicine and Population Health at the University of Sheffield. She holds a PhD in MRI Physics and a BSc in Physics from Imperial College London. Prior to her role at Sheffield, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, where she worked on dynamic contrast-enhanced breast imaging. Since 2009, she has focused on the development and application of hyperpolarised gas and proton lung MRI techniques.

Her research interests centre on the application of magnetic resonance imaging methods to patients with lung disease. This includes projects on early detection of lung disease in children with cystic fibrosis, visualisation of collateral and delayed ventilation in advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, imaging of ventilation response to therapies in asthma and COPD, and assessment of ventilation and perfusion matching in conditions such as chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. She contributes to clinical research study design, MR acquisition protocols, image computing workflows, data analysis, and the maintenance of a clinical hyperpolarised gas lung imaging service.