Novena Rangwala, PhD

Dr. Novena Rangwala received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 2011. Her doctoral research focused on reducing common MRI artifacts, including the cusp artifact in RARE sequences and the Nyquist ghost artifact in EPI-based PROPELLER. She also contributed to the development of a novel GRASE-based PROPELLER pulse sequence and collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to validate imaging protocols for patients with vascular cognitive impairment. 

Following her Ph.D., she joined Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Harvard Medical School). Her current work involves developing technologies for effective diagnosis of abdominal and pelvic carcinomas through fast, high-resolution acquisition protocols (e.g., PROPELLER and spiral trajectories), B1+ inhomogeneity correction in heterogeneous tissue, and the use of high-amplitude gradient fields on the Siemens MAGNETOM Prisma 3.0 T MRI scanner.