+45 3862 0505
Postdoc
My work focusses on preclinical cytoarchitectural mapping combining information from both MR and synchrotron radiation CT images. My aim is to use my expertise in MR Physics and sequence design to explore the limits of MR and synchrotron imaging to expand our knowledge of brain microstructure.
Microstructure and Plasticity
2020
MRes in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London
2019
BSc in Physics, University of Surrey
2023 -
Postdoc at DRCMR
2019 - 2023
PhD Student at University College London, UK
2017 - 2018
Trainee Physicist at the National Coordinating Centre for the Physics of Mammography, Surrey, UK
Mackenzie, A., Thomson, E.L., Mitchell, M. et al. Virtual clinical trial to compare cancer detection using combinations of 2D mammography, digital breast tomosynthesis and synthetic 2D imaging. Eur Radiol 32, 806–814 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-021-08197-x Mackenzie, A, Kaur, S, Thomson, EL, et al. Effect of glandularity on the detection of simulated cancers in planar, tomosynthesis, and synthetic 2D imaging of the breast using a hybrid virtual clinical trial. Med. Phys. 2021; 48: 6859–6868. https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.15216 Emma L. Thomson, Elizabeth Powell, Claudia A. M. Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott, Geoff J. M. Parker. Quantification of water exchange across the blood-brain barrier using non-contrast MR fingerprinting. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.30127 |