Manoj Saranathan
Professor at UMass Chan Medical School
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolManoj Saranathan is a professor and MRI physicist with nine years of academic experience and a two-decade+ industry-research trajectory developing and translating advanced MRI methods for body and brain imaging. He collaborates closely with radiologists, neuroscientists and neurosurgeons to push clinical applications—ranging from early cancer detection and non-contrast angiography to MRI-guided real-time DBS electrode placement. His work spans academia and industry, contributing ultra-fast imaging techniques deployed clinically at Stanford and productized for MRI vendors, as well as cardiac and real-time MRI innovations from earlier work with GE and NIH partners. Combining a PhD in bioengineering with hands-on translation at major medical centers, he blends deep technical MRI physics with practical clinical impact. Notably, he also applies imaging methods to neuroscience questions such as alcoholism-related brain changes, reflecting a rare mix of clinical, technical and cognitive-science collaborations.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at University of WashingtonIndian Institute of Technology Madras
Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (36)
image-segmentation10
segmentation10
image-registration10
contrast10
mri10
ants9
medical-image-processing9
normalization9
neuroimaging9
docker-container8
decoding6
vtk5
medical-imaging5
itk5
computed-tomography5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thalamicseg/hipsthomasdocker
Apr 2023 - Jan 2026
Docker version of HIPS-THOMAS
Contributions:94 pushes, 2 branches, 17 comments in 2 years 9 months
docker
thalamicseg/thomas_new
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
This version is OBSOLETE. Please use http://github.com/thalamicseg/hipsthomasdocker which is the latest and maintained © Copyright Manojkumar Saranathan 2021-2025
Contributions:1 review, 110 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 9 months
image-contrastthalamusmri-imagemrimatter
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