Division of Translational Imaging Research

Chief

Robert J. Ogg, PhD

Divisional Focus

The Division of Translational Imaging Research (DTIR) is building upon a solid base of independent research programs working toward a common goal of understanding and thus minimizing the impact of cancer and its treatment on children. These programs currently focus on:

• using MR technology to characterize the relationship between cancer treatment, neurostructural organization and integrity, and neurocognitive performance in children
  
• using functional MR technology to define the relations between acquired deficits in neurocognitive performance and therapy-induced brain injury in children
  
• using innovative adaptive image processing procedures for automatic quantitative analysis of brain structures in children with brain tumors

These research programs are pursued through a combination of basic and clinical research. 

• Basic research has focused on the development of innovative algorithms and methods to quantitatively characterize the structure and function of the developing brains of children treated for cancer.
• Clinical research within DTIR has translated this basic research into hypotheses driven objectives incorporated into treatment protocols in the Hematological Malignancies, Neurobiology & Brain Tumor, and Cancer Prevention & Control Programs.

Contact Us

Division of Translational Imaging Research
MS 220, Room I-3106
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678

Email: robert.ogg@stjude.org
Phone: (901) 595-2502
FAX: (901) 595-3981

Preferred contact method: email

Faculty

Claudia M. Hillenbrand, PhD  MR physics – methods and device development

Robert J. Ogg, PhD  Brain function in survivors of childhood diseases

Wilburn E. Reddick, PhD  White matter injury and neurocognitive functioning

András Sablauer, MD, PhD  Imaging informatics, biologic imaging