Carlotta Ianniello

biomedical engineering, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), MRI hardware, RF coil design, in vivo multinuclear MRI, phantoms for MRI application

Dr. Carlotta Ianniello has over 7 years of experience in MRI research. Her first contribution in MRI research was in 2014 with the development of a general formula for tissue mimicking MRI phantoms that is now available as a toolbox on the NIH website. Such phantoms, whose electrical properties can match those of human tissues, are beneficial in many MR applications ranging from RF coil design to MR safety. 

In 2021 she earned her PhD in Biomedical Imaging from New York University, where her research focused on multinuclear imaging of the breast via novel hardware and processing pipelines. The project involved designing and building a tailored dual tuned (proton/sodium) bilateral breast coil for the purpose of investigating correlates between sodium concentration and breast cancer outcomes. She developed a pipeline to improve the specificity of sodium as a biomarker by disentangling the intra- and extracellular components of the total sodium concentration in breast lesions.

Carlotta joined the MR SCIENCE lab in 2021 to work on integrating RF capability to the Dynamic multi-coil technique (DYNAMITE) B₀ shimming system. 

PhD                                                                              New York University School of Medicine (2021)
Examen Laurea Magistrale                               Ingegneria Biomedica (Biomedical/Medical
                                                                                       Engineering), Università degli Studi di Napoli
                                                                                       'Federico II' (2014)
Examen Laurea Triennale                                 Ingegneria Biomedica (Biomedical/Medical
                                                                                       Engineering), Università degli Studi di Napoli
                                                                                       'Federico II' (2012)
Examen Diploma di Maturità Scientifica   Liceo Scientifico "A. Manzoni" (2008)

Ianniello C, de Zwart JA, Duan Q, Deniz CM, Alon L, Lee JS, Lattanzi R, Brown R (2018). Synthesized tissue‐equivalent dielectric phantoms using salt and polyvinylpyrrolidone solutions. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 80(1): 413-419. 

Ianniello C, Madelin G, Moy L, Brown R (2021). A dual‐tuned multichannel bilateral RF coil for 1H/23Na breast MRI at 7 T. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 82(4): 1566-1575.

Ianniello C, Moy L, Fogarty J, Schnabel F, Adams S, Axelrod D, Axel L, Brown R, Madelin G. Multinuclear MRI to disentangle intracellular sodium concentration and extracellular volume fraction in breast cancer. Scientific Reports 11(1): 1-12. 

Ianniello C, Madelin G, Lakshmanan K, Zhang B, Moy L, Brown R. Design and performance of a dual tuned 7 T proton/sodium breast coil. International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA): 1890-1893. Online ahead of print.