James A. Sorenson
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Emeritus Professor, Medical Physics
Email: jasorens@wisc.edu
Education
BS, Physics, University of Wisconsin -Madison, 1963
MS, Physics, University of Wisconsin -Madison, 1964
PhD, Radiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1971
Research Interests
My research interests include the following: magnetic resonance imaging (functional MRI and MR image segmentation); diagnostic X ray; bone densitometry and body composition; absorptiometry (for bone densitometry and body composition); ROC (receiver operating characteristic) methods.
Patents
- Method for segmenting features in an image, U.S. Patent No. 5,361,763, 1993, WARF
- Suppression of oscillations in NMR measurement using off-resonance spin-locking pulses, U.S. Patent No. 5,420,510, 1993, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation WARF.
Memberships
- American Association of Physicists in Medicine
- Health PHYSICS Society
- International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine