IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE
MOST GRACIOUS, THE EVER MERCIFUL
All Praises and Thanks
belong to ALLAH, Lord of all the worlds.
May Salutations, Peace and
the Blessings of ALLAH be upon His Noble
Messenger, Muhammad, and upon his family and his companions, forever.
May Peace be upon all the
Messengers and Prophets of ALLAH and may His Pleasure and
Mercy be upon all the people who follow them, until the end of Time.
Welcome
to the home page of
Hamied
Ahmad Haroon
(In the picture are me and my wife)
Please see my CV for details including
my qualifications, experience, publications and skills
If you have any comments or enquiries please feel free to contact me
Since May 2004, I have been working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate
in Magnetic Resonance Neuroimaging in the Imaging Science
and Biomedical Engineering (ISBE) Research Group, which is part of
the Research School of
Cancer and Imaging Sciences, within the School of Medicine, in
the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences,
at The University of Manchester
I work with Professor
Geoff J M Parker on magnetic resonance diffusion
image analysis and white-matter fibre tractography
My research interests
include
o
analysis of high angular resolution
diffusion MRI data with q-ball and
other multi-fibre reconstruction methods
o
implementation of probabilistic tractography using the Probabilistic Index of Connectivity
(PICo)
o
developing methods to generate better
probability density functions (PDF) for probabilistic tractography,
such as model-based bootstrapping of diffusion data to obtain a distribution of
fibre orientations from the ODFs generated by q-ball
o
techniques for segmenting different brain
tissues, including cortical and sub-cortical structures
o
using partitioning schemes to define
cortical regions based on anatomical landmarks, and seeding probabilistic tractography from these cortical regions
o
determining the level of connection
between cerebral regions from probabilistic tractography,
and comparing against invasive tracer studies in animal models
o
previously, characterizing human tumours in vivo
using pharmacokinetic modelling applied to first-pass
dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI
My colleagues working
in MR diffusion and tractography research are Dr Karl V Embleton, Dr David M Morris, Mr David Ellard and Mr
Hojjat Azadbakht.
I have collaborative
links with Professor Matt A Lambon Ralph, Professor Nikos K
Logothetis, Dr Daniel C Alexander, Dr Tim B Dyrby and Dr Lester Melie-Garcia.
On 1st September 2006 I started working on a 3-year research
project funded by a Grant awarded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
(Grant reference BB/E002226/1). Geoff Parker
is Principal Investigator on this Grant and Matt Lambon Ralph
is a Co-Applicant. I am the other Co-Applicant and also
Researcher-Co-Investigator.
The project is
entitled “Temporal Lobe Anatomical Connectivity”,
and this is the summary:
The aim of this study is to establish the degree of cross-species
homology in white matter connections within and to/from the temporal lobes. We
will use diffusion weighted MRI (DWI) to provide non-invasive probabilistic
anatomical connectivity information in the human brain and compare this with
connectivity information derived from animal models. High resolution postmortem
DWI data will allow 'gold standard' comparison with literature and electronic
database information regarding anatomical connectivity. This will be compared
with DWI data acquired in vivo in a
population of healthy brains to define the degree of population variability in
temporal lobe connectivity and the experimental limits of in vivo DWI tractography. Cross-species
homology will be investigated via a series of exemplar experiments. A
significant additional end point will be the creation of an online database of
temporal lobe anatomical connectivity, which will be made available to
researchers, forming a unique and valuable resource for the neuroscience
community
David Ellard
is my co-worker on this project. Our collaborators on this project are Nikos Logothetis and Tim Dyrby
I was a PhD degree
research student in the same place between 2000 and 2004, under the supervision
of Professor Alan Jackson and Professor Steve R Williams. My PhD Thesis is on “First
Pass Pharmacokinetic Modelling in Dynamic
Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Application in Human Oncology”.
I worked closely with Dr Pawel
Tokarczuk, Dr Tufail A Patankar, Professor Danielle Balériaux, Dr David L Buckley and Geoff Parker during my
research degree programme.
By the Most Merciful Grace of Almighty ALLAH, I submitted my Thesis on
30th September 2004 and passed my Viva on 28th February
2005. Dr Mark Horsfield and
Dr Charles
Hutchinson were my external and internal examiners, respectively
I hold a BSc (Hons) in Physics and an MSc in
Medical Physics
I am an Associate Member of the Institute of Physics and of the Institute of Physics
and Engineering in Medicine
I am also a Student Member of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
and its British
Chapter
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Created on 23rd April 2002, Updated on 3rd
December 2007