Bruce Damon, PhD
Director, Clinical Imaging Research
Phone: (217) 383-7432
Email: Bruce.Damon@carle.com
Research Interests
- In vivo imaging and spectroscopy to advance the quantitative understanding of human physiology and pathophysiology
 
Education and Training
- Post-doctoral Fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine, 1999-2002
 - PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000
 - MS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993
 - BS, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1987
 
Publications
- Damon BM, Ding Z, Hooijmans MT, Anderson AW, Zhou X, Coolbaugh CL, George MK, Landman BA. (2021). A MATLAB toolbox for muscle diffusion-tensor MRI tractography. Journal of Biomechanics, 124:110540, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2021.110540.
 - Ostenson J, Smith DS, Does MD, Damon BM. (2020). Slice-selective extended phase graphs in gradient-crushed, transient-state free precession sequences. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 84:3409-3422.
 - Killian M, Buchowski MS, Donnelly T, Burnette WB, Markham LW, Slaughter JC, Xu M, Crum K, Damon BM, Soslow JH. (2020). Beyond ambulation: Measuring physical activity in youth with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Neuromuscular Disorders. 30:277-282.
 - Ostenson J, Damon BM*, Welch EB*. (2019). MR fingerprinting with simultaneous T1, T2, and fat signal fraction estimation with integrated B0 correction reduces bias in water T1 and T2 estimates. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 60: 7-19.
 - Coolbaugh CL, Damon BM†, Bush EC, Welch EB, Towse TF. (2019). Cold exposure induces dynamic, heterogeneous alterations in human brown adipose tissue lipid content. Scientific Reports. 9:13600, DOI 10.1038/s41598-019-49936-x.
 
Academic (or Faculty) Appointments
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering
 - Vanderbilt University, Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology and Radiological Sciences
 
Professional Certifications
- Academy of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research, Distinguished Investigator
 - American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
 - American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Fellow
 
Professional Societies
- American Physiological Society
 - Biomedical Engineering Society
 - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
 - Radiological Society of North America
 
Other Service
- Associate Editor,