Valentina Mazzoli
PostDoctoral Fellow
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Valentina Mazzoli
PostDoctoral Fellow
Welcome to my website! I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Radiology at Stanford University. I specialize in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the human musculoskeletal system. I earned my MSc and my PhD from the Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. My research develops advanced and quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques to better understand the physiology and function of the healthy musculoskeletal system and what goes wrong in disease. I am really passionate about combining physics and engineering to solve clinical challenges and improve patient outcomes. My goal is to further develop quantitative MRI and bring it in the clinics, for early disease detection, monitoring of novel therapies, and preserving and restoring musculoskeletal health.
Publications
Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Skeletal Muscle Contraction Using Oscillating Gradient Spin Echo
Valentina Mazzoli, Kevin Moulin, Feliks Kogan, Brian A. Hargreaves, Garry E. Gold
Frontiers in Neurology, vol. 12, 2021, p. 45
Hollis A Crowder, Valentina Mazzoli, Marianne S Black, Lauren E Watkins, Feliks Kogan, Brian A Hargreaves, Marc E Levenston, Garry E Gold
Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 2021 21
Lauren E. Watkins, Elka B. Rubin, Valentina Mazzoli, Scott D. Uhlrich, Arjun D. Desai, Marianne Black, Gabe K. Ho, Scott L. Delp, Marc E. Levenston, Gary S. Beaupré, Garry E. Gold, Feliks Kogan
NMR in Biomedicine, vol. 33(8), 2020 Apr 22
Lauren Watkins, James MacKay, Bryan Haddock, Valentina Mazzoli, Scott Uhlrich, Garry Gold, Feliks Kogan
The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, vol. 61, 2020 Mar 30, pp. 182-182
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Diffusion-weighted MRI in the Assessment of Arthritis in the Knee.
Anouk M Barendregt, Valentina Mazzoli, E Charlotte van Gulik, Dieneke Schonenberg-Meinema, Amara Nassar-Sheikh Al Rashid, Charlotte M Nusman, Koert M Dolman, J Merlijn van den Berg, Taco W Kuijpers, Aart J Nederveen, Mario Maas, Robert Hemke
Radiology, vol. 295(2), 2020 Feb 9, pp. 373-380
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Projects
Diffusion Tensor Imaging of skeletal muscle
The mechanical functions of muscles and their ability to generate force and movement is strongly dependent on the geometrical arrangement of muscle fibers (muscle architecture). Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is a powerful technique that allows non-inv...
MRI of skeletal muscle contraction
The ability to non-invasively image skeletal muscle with a large field-of-view during active contraction is of key interest to better diagnose and manage treatment of patients with muscle disease, as well as to better understand the link between muscle...
Quantitative MRI of the joints
Osteoarthritis is a leading cause of disability in developed countries. While knee MRI is commonly performed to evaluate structural cartilage and synovium modifications, there is a strong need for imaging markers that are sensitive to early changes ind...
Fast dynamic MRI of the joints
Dynamic MRI of moving joints is a promising technique for detection of movement abnormalities that are overlooked in conventional static MRI scans, but is hampered by sub-optimal image contrast. I developed a simple method based on bSSFP sequences to a...
Posts
2020 ISMRM Junior Fellow
I was recently named to the group of 2020 ISMRM Junior Fellows. This is a recognition by the ISMRM of outstanding potential as researchers and contributors to the field of MR based partly on past achievements and partly on scientific abstracts at the ... (Link)
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