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Dr. Gerry Thompson

  • Senior Clinical Lecturer in Radiology

Current research interests

  • Imaging biomarker development and validation for precision neuro-oncology, including advanced MRI, MR spectroscopy, and multi-tracer PET
  • Translational large animal neuroimaging and intervention: adapting human imaging pipelines for rodent and livestock models; interventional neuroradiology platform with fluoroscopy and interventional CT; first orthotopic sheep GBM xenograft model
  • Spatial biology (imaging mass spectrometry, spatial transcriptomics) for imaging biomarker validation
  • Machine learning and radiomics for brain tumour characterisation, including BraTS Challenge supervision
  • Multicentre clinical trial imaging methodology, including RANO response assessment and automated tumour tracking
  • Neuroinflammation imaging using TSPO-PET across species
  • Ketogenic diet biomarkers in bipolar disorder using MR spectroscopy
  • Cloud-based imaging tools for clinical trials
  • PREVENT Dementia Programme (Edinburgh site PI)
  • Head injury imaging biomarkers

Full research profile, including publications