Dardo Tomasi
Assistant Scientist

Telephone: (631) 344-3640
e-mail: tomasi@bnl.gov

Physicist

Research Interests

Functional MRI, Gradient Coil Design, Parallel Imaging

Dardo Tomasi focuses his research interests on the development of advanced MRI techniques to study the effects of brain diseases and psycho stimulants on brain activation. He is also interested in developing functional MRI techniques with high spatial and temporal resolution, and evaluating the effect of MRI acoustic noise on cognition, particularly attention and memory.

His ongoing research is funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Department of Energy (DOE)

Education & Concurrent Positions

M.S. University of Buenos Aires, 1991

Ph.D. University of Buenos Aires, 1996

Assistant Professor, San Martin University, Argentina, 1998-2003

Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2001-2003

Assistant Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2003-present

Selected Publications

1.      D. Tomasi, H. Panepucci, E.L. Vidoto, and E. Ribeiro Azevedo. “Use of a Phase Reference for Field Mapping with Amplitude Images at Low Field”. J Magn Reson 131: 310-314, 1998.

2.      D. Tomasi and H. Panepucci.”Magnetic Fields Mapping with the Phase Reference Method”. Magn Reson Imaging 17: 157-160, 1998.

3.      E.C. Caparelli, D. Tomasi and H. Panepucci. “Shielded Biplanar Gradient Coil Design”. J Magn Reson Imaging  9: 725-731, 1999.

4.      D. Tomasi, E.C. Caparelli, H. Panepucci and B. Foerster. “Fast Optimization of a Biplanar Gradient Coil Set”. J Magn Reson 140: 325-339 1999.

5.      D. Tomasi “Stream Function Optimization for Gradient Coil Design”. Magn Reson Med 45: 505-512, 2001.

6.      D. Tomasi, R.F. Xavier, B. Foerster, H. Panepucci, A. Tannus, and E. Vidoto. “Asymmetrical Gradient Coil for Head Imaging”, Magn Reson Med 48: 707-714, 2002.

7.      D. Tomasi, and T. Ernst. “Echo Planar Imaging at 4T with Minimum Acoustic Noise”. Magn. Reson. Imaging. J Magn Reson Imaging  18:128-30, 2003.

8.      E. Caparelli, D. Tomasi, S. Arnold, L. Chang, and T. Ernst. “k-Space Based Motion Detection for fMRI”. NeuroImage 20: 1411-1418, 2003.