Dr. Michael Thrippleton
- Senior Research Fellow
- m.j.thrippleton@ed.ac.uk
Organisation Associations
School of Regeneration and Repair
Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
Edinburgh Neuroscience
Edinburgh Imaging
School of Neurological and Cardiovascular Sciences
Current research interests
My research is currently focused on the development of advanced MR imaging techniques and their application in neurological diseases.
Disease areas:
- Cerebral small vessel disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Pre-term birth
Techniques:
- Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging of the brain
- Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) for probing the blood-brain barrier
- MR cerebrovascular reactivity imaging
- MR imaging of fluid flow
- MR spectroscopy and brain temperature measurement
- MR relaxometry
- Magnetisation transfer
- MR phantom development