Balu Niranjan

Niranjan Balu is currently a Research Assistant Professor with the Department of Radiology, University of Washington. He currently leads the Imaging Physics Group at the Dr. Chun Yuan’s Vascular Imaging Lab, where he manages the MRI aspect of large NIH sponsored multicenter studies and multicenter pharmaceutical trials. His research interests include MR pulse sequence design, image processing, and their application to clinical cardiovascular MRI. His current research is focused on developing new MRI techniques to reduce quantitative measurement variability in vessel wall MRI and development of fast sequences to facilitate translation of vessel wall MRI to the clinic.