"Open Rank"

Position Summary/Description

The Department of Radiology and the Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are seeking applicants with strong MR physics background and research efforts focusing on quantitative MR imaging for a faculty position in the Department of Radiology. By quantitatively measuring tissue relaxivities, quantitative MR imaging approaches, such as MR Fingerprinting, have recently been demonstrated capable of uncovering biological insights into disease processes that may be difficult to reveal using conventional weighted images. Clinical applications using quantitative imaging methods have shown potential efficacy to improve disease diagnoses. This search aims to identify a strong candidate whose research focuses on developing novel quantitative MR imaging approaches capable of obtaining measures of tissue relaxivities for both clinical and research applications. The candidates will work with multidisciplinary teams to integrate these techniques into clinical and preclinical studies.

The State of North Carolina has made significant investment to establish the Biomedical Research Imaging Center, an institution center dedicated to imaging research. The BRIC houses a comprehensive collection of human and animal imaging devices. Of particularly relevant to this position are the 3T whole body MR scanners, hybrid PET/MR scanner, whole body 7T MR scanner, and 9.4T small animal MR scanners. The applicant will join a multidisciplinary imaging research team consists of investigators with diverse yet complementary expertise, including imaging acquisition (MR, PET, SPECT, CT, ultrasound, and optical imaging), image analysis, imaging statistics and informatics, imaging hardware (MR, CT, and optical imaging), and clinical applications/translations. The candidates are expected to build a strong and independent research program focusing on quantitative MR imaging.