Dr. Samson Jarso


Dr. Samson Jarso is a research associate in the Neurology department.   He received his PhD in Biophysics working at both the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at San Francisco.  His Postdoctoral fellowship, at Johns Hopkins, was focused on applying multimodal MR imaging methods to the characterization of tissue morphology and physiology to improve the clinical utility of MRI for surgical planning, and the monitoring of treatment efficacy for brain tumor patients.  Currently his research efforts are directed toward building predictive models of stroke recovery.  He is interested in investigating the predictive value of language function recovery, in the context of a longitudinal fMRI study of our clinical stroke population.   These predictive models utilize data fusion methods, combining multimodal MR feature extraction, with clinical outcome measures as determined by multiple cognitive batteries.

Representative publications:

Rajan S, Patt RH, Jarso S, Mellusi M,  Carvlin M, Losseff S.  An Extended-Length Coil Design for Peripheral MR Angiography.  Magnetic Resonance Imaging Vol9 pp 493-495 1991

Swanson MG, Zektzer AS, Tabatabai ZL, Simko J, Jarso S, Keshari KR, Schmitt L, Carroll PR,  Shinohara K, Vigneron DB, Kurhanewicz J.  Quantitative analysis of prostate metabolites using 1H HR-MAS spectroscopy. Magn Reson Med. 2006 Jun;55(6):1257-64.

Zektzer AS, Swanson MG, Jarso S, Nelson SJ, Vigneron DB, Kurhanewicz  Improved signal to noise in high-resolution magic angle spinning total correlation spectroscopy studies of prostate tissues using rotor-synchronized adiabatic pulses. J. Magn Reson Med. 2005  Jan;53(1):41-8.

Landman BA, Huang AJ, Gifford A, Vikram DS, Lim IA, Farrell JA, Bogovic JA, Hua J, Chen M, Jarso S, Smith SA, Joel S, Mori S, Pekar JJ, Barker PB, Prince JL, van Zijl PC. Multi-parametric neuroimaging reproducibility: a 3-T resource study, Magn Reson Med. 2006 Jun;55(6):1257-64.

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