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Contact Information

E3/311 Clinical Sciences Center Madison, WI 53706

Tel: 608/265-9689 Fax: 608/265-9840 E-mail: fains@mr.radiology.wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Biomedical Engineering
• Medical Physics
• Radiology

• Biomedical Engineering Center

Education

• B.S., Geology, Univ of California, Davis, Davis, CA
• B.S., Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• Ph.D., Medical Physics, MRI, Mayo Graduate School, Rochester, MN. 2000

Fields of Interest

Single-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Dose Ranging Phase I Study of the Safety, Tolerance, and Efficacy of NC100182-Inhalation in the Magnetic Resonance; Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Asthma; 3D-CE-MRA with High-Resolution Extended Acquisition; Non-invasive Diagnosis of Breast Tumors using High Resolution Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI

Publications

Busse R.F., Debbins J.P., Kruger D.G., Fain S.B., Riederer S.J., "Interactive Three-Point Localization of Double-Oblique Sections using MR fluoroscopy." Magn Reson in Med 41:846-849 (1999).

Huston J., Fain S.B., Riederer S.J., Wilman A.H., Bernstein M.A., Busse R.F., "Carotid Arteries: Maximizing Arterial to Venous Contrast in Fluoroscopically-Triggered Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography with Elliptical Centric View Ordering." Radiology 211:265-273 (1999).

Busse R.F., Kruger D.G., Debbins J.P., Fain S.B., Riederer S.J., "A Flexible View Ordering Technique for Fast High-Quality 2DFT MR Fluoroscopy." Magn Reson in Med 42:69-81 (1999).

Riederer S.J., Fain S.B., Kruger D.G., Busse R.F., 3D contrast-enhanced MR angiography using fluoroscopic triggering and an elliptical centric view order. Int’l J Cardiac Imaging 15: 117-129 (1999).

Fain S.B., Riederer S.J., Bernstein M.A., Huston J., Theoretical Limits of Spatial Resolution in Elliptical-Centric Contrast-Enhanced 3D-MRA. Magn Reson in Med 42: 1106-1116 (1999).

Riederer S.J., Bernstein M.A., Breen J.F., Busse R.F., Ehman R.L., Fain S.B., Hulshizer T.C., Huston J., King B.F., Kruger D.G., Shah S., "Real-time fluoroscopic triggering of 3D contrast-enhanced MRA: design specifications and technical reliability in 330 patient studies. Radiology 2000; 215:584-593.

Huston J., Fain S.B., Wald J.T., Luetmer P.H., Rydberg C.H., Covarrubias D.J., Riederer S.J., Bernstein M.A., Brown R.D., Meyer F.B., Bower T.C., Schleck C.D., Carotid Artery: Elliptical Centric Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography Compared with Conventional Angiography. Radiology 218:138-143 (2001).

Fain S.B., King B.F., Breen J.R., Kruger D.G., Riederer S.J., High-Spatial-Resolution Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography of the Renal Arteries: A Prospective Comparison with Digital Subtraction Angiography. Radiology 218:481-490 (2001).

Fain S.B., Riederer S.J., Dependence of Venous Enhancement on the Field of View in 3D Contrast-Enhanced MRA Using the Elliptical Centric View Order. Magn. Reson. in Med. 45: 1134-1141 (2001).

Fain S.B., Riederer S.J., Huston J., and King B.F., Embedded MR Fluoroscopy: High Temporal Resolution Real-Time Imaging During High Spatial Resolution 3D MRA Acquisition. Magn. Reson. in Med. 46: 690-698.

Bernstein M.A., Fain S.B., and Riederer S.J., Effect of Windowing and Zero-Filled Reconstruction of MRI Data on Spatial Resolution and Acquisition Strategy. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 14: 270-280.