Logi Vidarsson, CV

Logi Viðarsson

Contact information email: [email protected] phone: 650-387-1773 address: 4961 Red Creek Drive, San Jose,CA 95136

Education

Stanford University (2002 - May 2006 (expected)) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in electrical engineering. Thesis title: "Relaxation specific magnetic resonance imaging". Advisor: John M Pauly. GPA = 3.7/4.0

Stanford University (2000 - 2002) Master of science in electrical engineering (MSEE). Advisors: Steven Boyd, Sam Pullen. GPA = 3.7/4.0

University of Iceland (1997-2000) Bachelor of science in electrical and computer engineering (BSc). Graduated with honors, GPA = 9.17/10.

Work experience

Stanford University (2002 - present) Research Assistant in the magnetic resonance systems research laboratory (MRSRL) Supervisors: John M. Pauly and Bruce L. Daniel. Design of T2 selective magnetization preparation pulses with Charles Cunningham and John M. Pauly Efficient processing of dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI data with Bruce L. Daniel Linear combination filtering for tissue specific knee imaging with Garry Gold.

Stanford University (2001 - 2002) Research Assistant in the local area augmentation system laboratory laboratory (LAAS) Supervisors: Per Enge and Sam Pullen. Satellite Autonomous Integrity Monitoring for improved GPS performance with Sam Pullen and Gaylord Green.

Stanford University (2001 - 2002) Teaching Assistant in the electrical engineering department Feedback Control Design with Abbas Emami (summer 2001 and summer 2002). Linear dynamical systems with Steven Boyd (winter 2002). Introduction to linear dynamical systems with Steven Boyd (fall 2001). Decode Genetics Inc. (1999 - 2000) Software engineer Finding the most likely order of exons in proteins Rapid processing of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) results

Softis Inc. (1997) Software engineer Q/A software engineering

Peer reviewed publications:

 Logi Vidarsson, Garry E. Gold, Brian Hargreaves and John M. Pauly. "Linear Combination (LC) Filtering for T2-Selective Imaging of The Knee." Accepted for publication in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine  Logi Vidarsson, Bryon A. Mueller,Kelvin O. Lim and John M. Pauly. "Myelin- Water Imaging at 3T with Linear Combination (LC) Filtering". Presented at the 2006 myelin imaging workshop in Vancouver,BC pdf  L. Vidarsson, K. O. Lim, B. Mueller and J. Pauly. "Myelin Imaging Using Steady-State Free Precession (SSFP) Sequences" Accepted for ISMRM 2006  L. Vidarsson, C. Cunningham, P. E. Larson, G. Gold and J. Pauly. "Design of T2 selective excitation pulse trains for knee imaging." Accepted for ISMRM 2006  Logi Vidarsson, Steven M. Conolly, Kelvin O. Lim, Garry E. Gold, and John M. Pauly. "Echo Time Optimization for Linear Combination Myelin Imaging". Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 53:398-407 (2005). pdf  Espinosa LA, Daniel BL, Vidarsson L, Zakhour M, Ikeda DM, Herfkens RJ. "The lactating breast: contrast-enhanced MR imaging of normal tissue and cancer." Radiology. 2005 Nov;237(2):429-36.  Logi Vidarsson, Charles Cunningham, Kelvin O. Lim and John M. Pauly. "Myelin Imaging with Matched Spin-Echo Pulse Pairs." Presented at 2005 ISMRM in Miami pdf  Logi Vidarsson, Bruce L. Daniel, Marowan Zakhour and John M. Pauly. "DCE Breast MRI: How Fast Is Fast Enough?" Presented at 2005 ISMRM in Miami pdf  Meena Ramachandran, Ross Daniel Venook, Julie Camille DiCarlo, Logi Vidarsson, Brian A. Hargreaves and Steve M. Conolly "A Low Noise, Susceptibility-Matched Solution for Endorectal Imaging of the Prostate" Presented at 2005 ISMRM in Miami  Peder Eric Zufall Larson, Logi Vidarsson, John M. Pauly and Dwight George Nishimura. "Linear Combination Filtering Long-T 2 * Suppression in Ultra-Short Echo Time (UTE) Imaging." Presented at 2005 ISMRM in Miami  Logi Vidarsson, Garry E. Gold, and John M. Pauly. "T2 linear combination filtering in patella cartilage." Presented at 2004 ISMRM in Kyoto pdf.  Logi Vidarsson, Kelvin O. Lim, Garry E. Gold and John M. Pauly. "Myelin imaging in the brain of MS patients via Linear combination." Presented at 2004 ISMRM in Kyoto pdf.  Logi Vidarsson, Bruce Daniel, Marowan Zakhour and John M. Pauly. "Dynamic contrast uptake analysis in the breast by linear combination." Presented at 2004 ISMRM in Kyoto pdf.  Logi Vidarsson, Kelvin O. Lim, and John M. Pauly. "Optimized T2 selective myelin imaging." Presented at 2003 ISMRM in Toronto pdf  Logi Viðarsson, Sam Pullen and Gaylord Green. "Satellite Autonomous Integrity Monitoring and its Role in Enhancing GPS User Performance". Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation GPS 2001. Salt Lake City, UT. Sept 11-14th,690-702 (2001) pdf

Publications in progress

 Logi Vidarsson. "Relaxation specific magnetic resonance imaging", PhD Thesis  Logi Vidarsson, Bruce L. Daniel, Lara Stables, Marowan Zakhour and John M. Pauly. "Fast KTrans parameter map generation for dynamic contrast enhanced breast image processing." Submitted to Magnetic Resonance in Medicine  Logi Vidarsson, Charles Cunningham, Garry E. Gold, Brian Hargreaves and John M. Pauly. "Design of T2-Selective Magnetization Preparation Pulses." In preparation

Skills

 EPIC programmed several pulse sequences from 2003 to 2006  C/C++, used regularly from 1998  Java, used regularly from 1998  Matlab, used frequently for analysis and optimization from 1998  LINUX/UNIX, system administrator for EE student lab 1998-2000, and MRSRL from 2003  Windows/MS Office, frequently used from 1995  PhP3/Perl, programmed a web-based wedding administration system in 2006

Honors and awards

 2006, Abstract reviewer for 2006 ISMRM conference  2001/2002, Mentor for Stanford's ARLISS team.  2000, Awarded the Fulbright fellowship for commencing studies in the US

Volunteer work

 2003 - 2004 Tutor for the science bus, after school program with underprivileged children in East Palo Alto.  1999-2000 Secretary for the IEEE University of Iceland student branch  1995-1996 Board member for Framtidin, speakers club at my high school.

References  Professor John M. Pauly (PhD advisor), Stanford University, [email protected]  Dr. Garry Gold, Stanford University, [email protected]  Dr. Bruce Daniel, Stanford University, [email protected]  Dr. Charles Cunningham, Stanford University, [email protected]