Professor Fraser J L Robb

PhD

School of Medicine and Population Health

Honorary Professor

fraser.robb@gehealthcare.com
The Medical School

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Professor Fraser J L Robb
School of Medicine and Population Health
The Medical School
Beech Hill Road
Sheffield
S10 2RX
Profile

I am currently the Chief Technology Leader for RF Coils working within GE’s MRI business. Recently, I have been part of the team that delivered revolutionary Air TechnologyTM MRI blankets to the market place.

Prior to that I was a Research Assistant Professor at the Dartmouth College in New Hampshire (USA) working with Professor Harold Swartz working on 1.1GHz resonators and instrumentation for detection of free radicals and measurement of tissue oxygen.

I attended the University of Aberdeen and received a MSc degree in Medical Physics in 1992 and a PhD (1998) studying with Professors David Lurie and James Hutchison. During this time I was imbued with a fascination for novel imaging methods including PEDRI, LODESR and Field-Cycled MRI.

I also have a BSc degree in Applied Physics from the University of Strathclyde (1990). I am both a Chartered Physicist and Chartered Engineer registered with the Institute of Physics. I have more than 40 patents issued or pending.

Research interests
  • Flexible MRI Coil Technology.
  • Development of Phased Arrays for Lung, Neonatal and Pediatric MRI.
  • Imaging using the Dynamic Nuclear Polarization effect or other mechanisms of Hyperpolarization.
  • Proton Electron Double Resonance Imaging and LODESR Imaging of free radicals.
  • Field-Cycled MRI.
  • MRI Simulation.

Current projects:

  • Wireless and Wearable MRI Coils.
  • Fast Switching Circuits for MRI Coils.
  • Multinuclear Coils phased arrays and Tx coils.
  • Pediatric and Neonatal MRI.
Teaching interests

I have enjoyed supervising many MSc and PhD projects in conjunction with a variety of institutions especially at University of Sheffield!

I also support the teaching goals on the GE Healthcare’s Advanced Course in Engineering, which has been running for more than 100 years.

Professional activities and memberships

I am active member of ISMRM and the Institute of Physics.

Key Publications

Barrett T, Riemer F, McLean MA, Kaggie JD, Robb F, Warren AY, Graves MJ, Gallagher FA. (2019) J Magn Reson Imaging, 51(1): 90-97.

Winkler SA, Corea J, Lechêne B, O'Brien K, Bonanni JR, Chaudhari A, Alley M, Taviani V, Grafendorfer T, Robb F, Scott G, Pauly J, Lustig M, Arias AC, Vasanawala S. (2019) Radiology, 291(1): 180-185.

Darnell D, Cuthbertson J, Robb F, Song AW, Truong TK. (2019) Magn Reson Med, 81(3): 2176-2183.

Maunder A, Rao M, Robb F, Wild JM. (2019) . Magn Reson Med, 81(2): 1130-1142.

Maunder A, Rao M, Robb F, Wild JM. (2018) Magn Reson Med, 80(4): 1746-1753.

Barrett T, Riemer F, McLean MA, Kaggie J, Robb F, Tropp JS, Warren A, Bratt O, Shah N, Gnanapragasam VJ, Gilbert FJ, Graves MJ, Gallagher FA. (2018) Invest Radiol, 53(8): 450-456.

Miloushev VZ, Granlund KL, Boltyanskiy R, Lyashchenko SK, DeAngelis LM, Mellinghoff IK, Brennan CW, Tabar V, Yang TJ, Holodny AI, Sosa RE, Guo YW, Chen AP, Tropp J, Robb F, Keshari KR. (2018) Cancer Res, 78(14): 3755-3760.

Darnell D, Ma Y, Wang H, Robb F, Song AW, Truong TK. (2018) Magn Reson Med, 80(1):371-379.

McGee KP, Stormont RS, Lindsay SA, Taracila V, Savitskij D, Robb F, Witte RJ, Kaufmann TJ, Huston J 3rd, Riederer SJ, Borisch EA, Rossman PJ. (2018) Phys Med Biol, 63(8):08NT02.

Byron K, Robb F, Stang P, Vasanawala S, Pauly J, Scott G. (2018) Concept Magn Reson B, 47B(4): e21360.

Murbach M, Neufeld E, Samaras T, Córcoles J, Robb FJ, Kainz W, Kuster N. (2016) . Magn Reson Med, 77(5): 2048-2056.

Bulumulla SB, Park KJ, Fiveland E, Iannotti J, Robb F. (2017) Rev Sci Instrum, 88(2): 025003.

Lu JY, Grafendorfer T, Zhang T, Vasanawala S, Robb F, Pauly JM, Scott GC. (2016) IEEE Trans Med Imaging, 35(12): 2558-2567.

Zhang T, Grafendorfer T, Cheng JY, Ning P, Rainey B, Giancola M, Ortman S, Robb FJ, Calderon PD, Hargreaves BA, Lustig M, Scott GC, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. (2016) Magn Reson Med, 76(3): 1015-21.

Daniels CJ, McLean MA, Schulte RF, Robb FJ, Gill AB, McGlashan N, Graves MJ, Schwaiger M, Lomas DJ, Brindle KM, Gallagher FA. (2016) NMR Biomed, 29(4):387-99.