Meet our Researchers

Our Researchers

Terry M. Button, PhD                                                               

 Associate Professor of Radiology

Dr Terry Button is an Associate Professor of Radiology at Stony Brook University Medical Center, Director of the Medical Physics Track in Biomedical Engineering, and Director of Medical Imaging Technology program in the School of Health Technology and Management.  He received his BS degree in Physics/Math from SUNY Cortland in 1975, MS in Nuclear Physics at N. Texas State University in 1978, and his PhD degree in Biophysics at SUNY Buffalo in 1989.  Dr Button was appointed Chair in the University Radiation Protection Committee, MRI Panel Chair in the American Board of Medical Physics, and Director of Radiological Sciences in the Health Sciences Department in the past year.  Dr Button's research work in the past has focused on Advanced Magnetic Resonance Mammography and Dynamic Infrared Imaging.  His current research projects are infrared imaging, breast cancer detection, magnetic resonance and computer aided diagnosis (CAD).

If you are interested in finding out more information regarding Dr Button's research projects please call Aimee Minton at 444-2471 or Veronica Geronimo at 444-2409.

Mayuresh Korgaonkar, M.S.                                                                              

 Ph.D. Candidate

Mr. Mayuresh Korgaonkar is a graduate student in the department of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University. He received his BS degree in Electronics Engineering at the University of Mumbai, India. He continued his education in Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University where he completed his M.S. degree and is currently working towards his Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Mark Wagshul in the department of Radiology at Stony Brook University Medical Center. His current work and Ph.D. thesis is concentrated on developing a multi-modality neuroimaging tool using Functional MRI (fMRI), Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) and Electroencephalography (EEG) to study rehabilitation of stroke patients suffering from aphasia.   

If you are interested in finding out more information regarding Mayuresh Korgaonkar's research projects please call Aimee Minton at 444-2471 or Veronica Geronimo at 444-2409.

Gene Gindi, PhD                                                         

Associate Proffessor of Radiology and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr Gene Gindi is an Associate Professor of Radiology and Electrical & Computing Engineering at Stony Brook University Medical Center.  He received his BS degree in applied physics at Caltech. He continued his education at the University of Arizona attaining his M.S. and Ph.D in Optical Sciences.  Dr. Gindi's research concentration is in SPECT technology (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography).  His projects include fast reconstruction algorithms, lesion detection in SPECT by human and mathematical observers, propagation of model error in SPECT. He is also currently working on Tomosynthesis: construction of digital breast phantoms. 

If you are interested in finding out more information regarding Dr. Gindi's research projects please call Aimee Minton at 444-2471 or Veronica Geronimo at 444-2409.

Haifang Li, PhD                                

University Support Specialist

Dr. Li joined Stony Brook University in 1992 as a University Support Specialist.  He attended the University of Science and Technology of China earning his bachelors of science in Chemistry.  He continued his education at Stony Brook University earning his PhD in 1991.  His current research projects include; MR spectroscopy studies of physiological conditions, DCE (dynamic contrast enhancement) studies on breast cancer detection and Dynamic IR imaging studies.  Areas of Research Interest include DICOM and Computer Applications.

If you are interested in finding out more information on Dr. Li's research please contact Aimee Minton at (631) 444-2471 or Veronica Geronimo at (631) 444-2409 

Jerome Z. Liang, PhD                                   

Professor

Dr. Liang is a Professor, in the Departments of Radiology, Physics & Astronomy, Computer Science, and BME at Stony Brook University.  He is also part-time professor in the Department of Technical Physics, Peking University of China and a collaborator for the  Medical Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).   

He attended Lanzhou University of China earning his B.S. degree in physics in 1982.  He continued his education in City University of New York, NY attaining his PhD in physics in 1987.  His current research projects include, developing Virtual Colonoscopy Technologies and developing Texture-Based Computer-aided Detection/Diagnosis.  Other areas of research interest include Image Reconstruction, Processing and Visualization.

If you are interested in participating in research, please contact Aimee Minton at (631) 444-2471 or Veronica Geronimo at (631) 444-2409.

Sachin Jambawalikar PhD

 PostDoctoral Assoicate

Dr. Sachin Jambawalikar is a postdoctoral associate in the department of Radiology at Stony Brook University Medical Center.  He received his BS degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Mumbai, India.  He continued his education at Stony Brook University where he completed his M.S. and PhD in Biomedical Engineering.  Dr. Jambawalikar's research interests include; medical image and texture analysis, computer aided diagnosis (CAD), machine learning, image classification and segmentation.  His current research includes computer aided diagnosis of breast cancer in DCE-MRI and Dynamic Infrared images. 

If you are interested in finding out more information regarding Dr. Jambawalikar's research projects please call Aimee Minton at 444-2471 or Veronica Geronimo at 444-2409

Mark Wagshul, PhD                          

Assistant Professor

Dr. Wagshul is the Director, of Magnetic Resonance Research Center, at Stony Brook University.  He is also an assistant professor in the departments of Neurosurgery and Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University.   He attended Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, NJ where he earned his BA in Physics in 1985.  He continued his education at Harvard University attaining his PhD in Physics in 1992.  He continued his education with postdoctoral work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in atomic and laser physics.  His current research projects include: improved methods for CSF flow imaging, hydrocephalus, imaging and modeling, animal models of hydrocephalus, animal imaging, flow imaging in dementia, functional imaging of language in stroke, diffusion tractography in stroke and  MR spectroscopy of stem cells in the brain.  Other areas of research interest include flow imaging in aneurysms and coronary arteries, functional imaging in autism and MS and diffusion tractography in MS and tumor. 

If you are interested in participating in finding out more information on Dr. Wagshul's research please contact Aimee Minton at (631) 444-2471 or Veronica Geronimo at (631) 444-2409.

Luminita Alina Tudorica, PhD

 Instructor

Dr Tudorica is an instructor in the Department of Radiology at Stony Brook University Medical Center.  She received her BS degree in Physics from The University of Bucharest, Romania in 1992.  She continued her education in the same university and completed her M.S. and PhD in Nuclear Physics in 1994 and 2001 respectively.  At the same time, Dr Tudorica also worked on her PhD in Physical Chemistry at Stony Brook University completing it on 2001.  Dr Tudorica's current research projects include brain MRI/MRS, breast MRI/MRS, breast tomosynthesis and cardiac MRI. 

If you are interested in finding out more information regarding Dr Tudorica's research projects please call Aimee Minton at 444-2471 or Veronica Geronimo at 444-2409