elfar@mit.edu

Elfar Adalsteinsson, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and MIT's Division of Health Sciences and Technology, joined the MIT faculty and the Research Laboratory of Electronics in 2004. Professor Adalsteinsson's research area is medical imaging with magnetic resonance, focusing on optimal methods for acquisition, reconstruction and processing of in vivo imaging data. His interests include techniques for efficient sampling and spatial encoding of spectroscopic magnetic resonance data, whereby small signals, originating, for example, specifically from neuronsin the brain, yield information not observed with conventional structural imaging. Applications of these and related methods include a study of the progression of Alzheimer's disease and characterization of Multiple Sclerosis.