| IDENTIFICATION AND CONTACT INFORMATION |
| Last name: | MacKay |
First name: | Alex L. |
| Address: | Dept of Physics and Astronomy
University of British Columbia
6224 Agricultural Road
Vancouver (British Columbia)
V6T 1Z1 |
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| BC academic affiliation: | University of British Columbia |
| Department: | Radiology / Physics and Astronomy |
| E-mail address: |
mackay@physics.ubc.ca |
BC research location(s): |
Vancouver Hospital & Health Sciences Centre (UBC Hospital) |
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| Status: | Researcher |
| Last update: |
25/08/2010
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| TRAINING AND CREDENTIALS |
| Diploma / Credentials |
Specialty |
Year |
Institution |
| Doctorate (PhD) |
Physics |
1975 |
University of Oxford |
| Master's |
Physics |
1971 |
The University of British Columbia |
| Bachelor's |
Physics |
1969 |
Dalhousie University |
| Last update: |
12/08/2010
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| AREAS OF EXPERTISE |
| Area of research: |
Health sciences |
| Disciplines trained in: |
Physics |
| Research disciplines: |
Neurosciences
Radiology |
| Research topics: |
Multiple Sclerosis (Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction)
Schizophrenia (Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction) |
| Fields of application: |
Biomedical Aspects of Human Health |
| Last update: |
25/08/2010
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| TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS |
| Technological applications: |
Radiology / Imaging |
| Last update: |
25/08/2010
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| RESEARCH ACTIVITIES - Description used by investigators to specify their area of expertise. |
| Key words: |
Magnetic resonance imagin, nuclear magnetic resonanc, tissue water, myelin, relaxation, metal artefact reduction, multiple sclerosis, brain pathology |
| Research interests: |
Our group develops and implements magnetic resonance techniques for measuring human pathology in vivo. Our major project is the measurement of myelin water in white matter with applications to multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia and phenoketonurea. |
| Last update: |
25/08/2010
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| RECENT AND REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS |
| Authors |
| Title (article or book chapter) |
| Year |
Volume |
Number |
Pages |
Journal or book |
Editors |
City and publishing house |
| Thor Bjarnason, Charmaine Chia, Irene Vavasour, and Alex macKay |
| "Characterization of the NMR behaviour of white matter in bovine brain" |
| 2005 |
54 |
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pp. 1072-1081 |
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine |
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Wiley InterScience |
| C. Laule, I.M. Vavasour, G.R.W. Moore, J. Oger, D.K.B. Li, D.W.Paty, A.L. MacKay |
| "Water content and myelin water fraction in multiple sclerosis" |
| 2004 |
251 |
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pp. 284-293 |
Journal of Neurology |
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| A.L. MacKay, K.P. Whittall, J. Adler, D.K.B. Li, D.W. Paty, and D. Graeb |
| "in Vivo visualization of myelin water in brain by magnetic resonance" |
| 1994 |
31 |
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pp. 673-677 |
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine |
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| Last update: |
12/08/2010
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| LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES |
| Understand: |
English |
| Read: |
English |
| Write: |
English |
| Speak: |
English |
| Last update: |
25/08/2010
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