Portrait of Bruce Damon, PhD

Bruce Damon, PhD

Director, Clinical Imaging Research

Research Interests

  • In vivo imaging and spectroscopy to advance the quantitative understanding of human physiology and pathophysiology

Education and Training

  • Post-doctoral Fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine, 1999-2002
  • PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000
  • MS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993
  • BS, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1987

Publications

  • Damon BM, Ding Z, Hooijmans MT, Anderson AW, Zhou X, Coolbaugh CL, George MK, Landman BA. (2021). A MATLAB toolbox for muscle diffusion-tensor MRI tractography. Journal of Biomechanics, 124:110540, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2021.110540.
  • Ostenson J, Smith DS, Does MD, Damon BM. (2020). Slice-selective extended phase graphs in gradient-crushed, transient-state free precession sequences. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 84:3409-3422.
  • Killian M, Buchowski MS, Donnelly T, Burnette WB, Markham LW, Slaughter JC, Xu M, Crum K, Damon BM, Soslow JH. (2020). Beyond ambulation: Measuring physical activity in youth with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Neuromuscular Disorders. 30:277-282.
  • Ostenson J, Damon BM*, Welch EB*. (2019). MR fingerprinting with simultaneous T1, T2, and fat signal fraction estimation with integrated B0 correction reduces bias in water T1 and T2 estimates. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 60: 7-19.
  • Coolbaugh CL, Damon BM†, Bush EC, Welch EB, Towse TF. (2019). Cold exposure induces dynamic, heterogeneous alterations in human brown adipose tissue lipid content. Scientific Reports. 9:13600, DOI 10.1038/s41598-019-49936-x.

Academic (or Faculty) Appointments

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering
  • Vanderbilt University, Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology and Radiological Sciences

Professional Certifications

  • Academy of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research, Distinguished Investigator
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
  • American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Fellow

Professional Societies

  • American Physiological Society
  • Biomedical Engineering Society
  • International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • Radiological Society of North America

Other Service

  • Associate Editor,