Sarah J. Nelson Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Radiology, UCSF Scientific Director, QB3, UCSF Director, Program in Bioengineering, UCSF 303 Byers Hall mailcode: Box 2532 415 476 6383 fax: 415 514 2550 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it http://www.bioengineering.ucsf.edu/faculty-sarah_j_nelson.vp.html

Joined the UC Berkeley Faculty in 2002

Research Interests

Magetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy; image processing; algorithm development.

Education

1982 Ph.D., University of Heidelberg, West Germany, Applied Mathematics

Major Awards

Professional Experience

1975-1978    Systems Analyst/Applied Mathematician, EASAMS Ltd., Surrey, England

1978    Mathematics Teacher, Geroge Abbott School, Surrey, England

1979-1982    Research Fellow / Graduate Student of Special Research. Project 123 "Stochastic Mathematical Models." Department of Applied Mathematics, U of Heidelberg, West Germany

1985-1987    Postdoctoral Fellow, Biostatistics Laboratory, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA

1987-1988    Research Associate of NMR & Medical Spectroscopy, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Phila. PA

1988-1990    Associate Member, Dept. of NMR & Medical Spectroscopy, Fox Chase Cancer Ctr Phila. PA

1990-1994    Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA

1995-1997    Associate Director, Magnetic Resonance Science Center, UCSF, CA

1994-2000    Associate Professor of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA

1997-2003    Scientific Director, Magnetic Resonance Science center, UCSF, CA

1999-2001    Visiting Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA

2000-present    Professor of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco. CA.

2002-present    Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley CA.

2002-2004    Chair, Division of Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco, CA

2003-present    Director, Surbeck Laboratory of Advanced Imaging, Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA

2004-present    Margaret Hart Surbeck Distinguished Professorship in Advanced Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA.

2005-present    Director, Program in Bioengineering of UCSF School of Medicine, UCSF, CA

Selected Publications

Nelson SJ. Multivoxel magnetic resonance spectroscopy of brain tumors. Mol Can Therapeutics May 2(5):497-507, 2003.

Lee M, Pirzkall A, Akazawa P, Verhey LJ, Nelson SJ. MR spectroscopy of radiation effects in healthy brain tissue following radiotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 57(S):133-134, 2003

Oh J, Henry RG, Pirzkall A, Lu Y, Li X, Catalaa I, Chang S, Dillon WP, Nelson SJ. Survival analysis in patients with glioblastoma multiforme: predictive value of choline to N-acetylaspartate index, apparent diffusion coefficient and relative cerebral blood volume. J Magn Reson Imaging 19:546-554, 2004

Lee MC, Pirzkall A, McKnight T, Nelson SJ, 1H-MRSI of Radiation Effects in Normal-appearing white matter: dose-dependence and impact on automated spectral classification. J Magn Reson Imag. 19(4):379-388, 2004.

R. Hurd, S. Napapon, R. Srinivasan, D. Vigneron, D. Pelletier, S. Nelson, Measurement of Brain Glutamate using TE-averaged PRESS at 3T. Magn Reson Med, 51(3):435-440, 2004.

R. Srinivasan, D. Vigneron, S. Napapon, R. Hurd, N. SJ, Comparative study of Myo-inositol quantification using LC model at 1.5T and 3.0T with 3D 1H Proton Spectroscopic Imaging of the Human Brain. J Magn Reson Imaging 22(4):523-528, 2004.

Pirzkall, X. Li, J. Oh, S. Chang, M.S. Berger, M.W. McDermott, D.A. Larson, L.J. Verhey, W.P. Dillon, S.J. Nelson, “3D MR-Spectroscopy for Resected High-Grade Gliomas Prior to RT: Tumor Extent according to Metabolic Activity in Relation to MRI”, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 59(1):126-137, 2004.

Li X, Jin H, Lu Y, Oh J, Chang S, Nelson SJ. Identification of MRI and 1H MRSI parameters that may predict survival for patients with malignant gliomas. NMR Biomed, 17(1):10-20, 2004.

Oh J, Henry RG, Genain C, Nelson SJ, Pelletier D. Mechanisms of normal appearing corpus callosum injury related to pericallosal T1 lesions in multiple sclerosis using directional diffusion tensor and 1H MRS imaging. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 75:1281-1286, 2004.

Oh J, Pelletier D, Nelson SJ, Preferential Corpus Callosum Axonal Injury in Multiple Sclerosis Measured by Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging, Arch. Neurology, 61(7): 1081-1086.2004.

Chan, AA, Lau, A, Pirzkall, A, Chang SM, Verhey LJ, Larson, D, McDermott, M, Dillon, W, Nelson SJ, Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging as a tool for evaluating grade IV glioma patients undergoing gamma knife radiosurgery, J. Neurosurgery, 101(3):467-475, 2004.

Nelson, SJ. MR Imaging and Spectroscopy, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Special Issue on Molecular Imaging, Sept-Oct (2), 2004.

Cunningham CH, Vigneron DB, Chen AP, Nelson SJ, Xu D, Hurd RE, Kelley DAC, Pauly JM. Design of flyback echo-planar readout gradients for MR spectroscopic imaging.  Magn. Reson. In Med. 2005 54:1286-9.

Pels P, Ozturk-Isik E, Swanson MG, Vanhamme L, Kurhanewicz J, Nelson SJ, Huffel SV. Quantification of prostate MRSI data by model-based time domain fitting and frequency domain analysis. NMR Biomed 2006; 19:188-197.