2015 Award Winners

CAIN – MITNEC

1st Prize
Onaizah Onaizah – Lumped Parameter Model of Flow through the Carotid Bifurcation, University of Western Ontario
2nd Prize  TIE
Izabela Aleksanderek – Metabolic and functional correlates differentiate between mild and moderate cervical spondylotic myelopathy: A MRS and fMRI study, Toronto Western Hospital
2nd Prize  TIE
Eric A Wright – Ischemia-time dependent absolute CBF threshold for infarction determined in a porcine model of acute stroke, University of Western Ontario

CINO

1st Prize
Omar El-Sherif – Dosimetric Analysis of Respiratory-Induced Cardiac Intrafraction Motion in Left-sided Breast Cancer Radiotherapy, Western University
2nd Prize
Maggie Hess – Low-cost USB ultrasound in scoliosis measurement, Queen’s University
3rd Prize
Peter R Martin – Optimizing MRI-targeted fusion prostate biopsy: the effect of systematic error and anisotropy on tumour sampling, Western University

ICT

1st Prize
Eranga Ukwatta – Image-based Personalized Analysis and Modeling of Cardiac Structure and Function: A Robust Method for Automatic Left-Ventricular Infarct Segmentation, University of Toronto
2nd Prize
Mohammad Ali Tavallaei – Design, Development and in vivo Evaluation of a Remote Catheter Navigation System with 3-Degrees-of-Freedom, Robarts Research Institute
3rd Prize
Zahra Hosseini – Generation of high-contrast single-slice susceptibility weighted images in the brain at 7T, Robarts Research Institute

OICR ITP

1st Prize
Timothy Yeung – Personalized Treatment Selection for Brain Metastases Using MRI Radiomics, Western University
2nd Prize
Sarah Svenningsen – Functional MRI Ventilation Discriminates Well-controlled Asthmatic and Healthy Subjects: Sensitivity, Specificity and Comparison with FEV1, Western University
3rd Prize
Matthew J Gravett – Mechatronic Image Guided Needle Manipulation System for Small Animals in 9.4T Bore, Robarts Research Institute

OICR SIP

1st Prize
Luke Kwon – MicroPET/CT Imaging of EGFR and HER2 in Breast Cancer Tumour Xenografts in Mice using Bispecific Radioimmunoconjugates (bsRICs), University of Toronto
2nd Prize
Adam Richard Blais – Quantitative Functional Imaging of Prostate Cancer with Improved Kinetics Modeling of Hybrid 18F-Fluorocholine PET-CT Imaging, Western University
3rd Prize
Corby Fink – [19]Fluorine cellular magnetic resonance imaging to monitor in vivo therapeutic cell migration, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario

OPIC

1st Prize
Danny Poinapen – Non-invasive live insect imaging made possible using CO2 general anesthesia and micro-CT, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario
2nd Prize
Justin Tse – A production method of customized in-bore epoxy resin filters for gantry-based micro-CT scanners, University of Western Ontario
3rd Prize
Kelvin Zhu – The Second Generation Gd-free Extracellular MRI Contrast Agents Based on Mn-Porphyrin, University of Toronto