Portrait of Hacene Serrai, PhD

Hacene Serrai, PhD

Staff Scientist

Research Interests

  • Development, implementation, and validation of arterial spin labeling and high-speed MRSI sequences at high field.

Education and Training

  • Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1997-1999
  • PhD, Universite de Rennes I, Rennes, France, 1997
  • MS, Universite Francois Rabelais de Tours, Tours, France, 1993
  • MS, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, Compiegne, France, 1990
  • BS, Universite Ferhat Abbas, Setif, Algeria, 1988

Publications

  • Gabrielle Benigno, Ravi Menon, Hacene Serrai, “Schrödinger filtering: a precise EEG despiking technique for EEG-fMRI gradient artifact.”, NeuroImage, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117525
  • Omer Oran, Martyn Klassen, Hacene Serrai, Ravi Menon, “Demonstration and suppression of respiration‐related artifacts in Bloch–Siegert shift‐based B1+ maps of the human brain”, NMR in Biomedicine, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1002/nbm.4299
  • Fouzi Mouffouk, Hacene Serrai, Sourav Bhaduri, Rik Achten, Mozhdeh Seyyedhamzeh, Ali A. Husain, Abdullah Alhendal, Mohammed Zourob, "A New Class of Smart Gadolinium Contrast Agent for Tissue pH Probing Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging”, molecules, 2020:25(7):1513 10.3390/molecules25071513.
  • Alexei Ouriadov, Matthew Fox, Andras Lindenmaier, Elaine Stirrat, Hacene Serrai, Giles Santyr, “Application of A Stretched-Exponential Model for Morphometric Analysis of Accelerated Diffusion-weighted 129Xe MRI of the Rat Lung”, MAGMA, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-020-00860-6.
  • Hacene Serrai, Sagar Buch, Omer Oran, Ravi S. Menon, “Using variable‐rate selective excitation (VERSE) radiofrequency pulses to reduce power deposition in pulsed arterial spin labeling sequence at 7 Tesla”, Magnetic Resonance Medicine. 2020; 83(2):645, https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.27944.

Professional Certifications

  • Bronze medal award in dynamic spectroscopy, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • National Research Council, Canada, fellowship

Professional Societies

  • International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)
  • European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB)