Sean Smart
Senior Research Associate
I am a preclinical imaging scientist specialised in the development of technologies for improving image quality. Key developments include real-time, dynamic reacquistion of motion corrupted data, cardiac synchronisation during short and constant TR steady-state maintained scanning, respiration-gated B0 stabilisation for high resolution imaging, and the development of a suite of techniques that enable MRI-guided radiotherapy abdomincal tumour to be operated at high throughput.
Recent publications
Protocol for tissue processing and paraffin embedding of mouse brains following ex vivo MRI
Journal article
Smart A. et al, (2023), STAR Protocols, 4, 102681 - 102681
A simple, open and extensible gating Control unit for cardiac and respiratory synchronisation control in small animal MRI and demonstration of its robust performance in steady-state maintained CINE-MRI
Journal article
Gilchrist S. et al, (2021), Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 81, 1 - 9
Tumour irradiation combined with vascular-targeted photodynamic therapy enhances antitumour effects in pre-clinical prostate cancer
Journal article
Sjoberg HT. et al, (2021), British Journal of Cancer, 125, 534 - 546
Ultrasound-Mediated Gemcitabine Delivery Reduces the Normal-Tissue Toxicity of Chemoradiation Therapy in a Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Model
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Ruan J-L. et al, (2021), International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, 109, 1472 - 1482
MR and CT compatible electrical heating system for mouse imaging
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Gilchrist S. et al, (2019), Animal Technology and Welfare, 18, 219 - 221