Welcome to my research website!
I'm a researcher in Medical Imaging. I am currently working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston as a 2012 M+Visión Fellow, funded by the Madrid-MIT M+Visión Consortium.
Previously I was a postdoc at the University of Santiago de Compostela, working in the Radiophysics research group, and before at the University of Tennesse Medical Center, working in Prof. David Townsend's group. I did my PhD in High Energy Physics participating in the design and quality evaluation of some of the particle detectors (Silicon microsrip detectors for the Silicon Tracker of the LHCb experiment) installed now at the LHC accelerator at CERN.
My current research interests are in multi-modality imaging techniques applied to clinical practice, such as TOF-PET/CT and PET-MRI for early tumor detection or brain imaging. In short, I study non-invasive ways of imaging the inside of the human body to help in the detection of some diseases in an early stage of their development. A well-known example of a non-invasive imaging technique is radiography, mostly used to image bones. Some others may sound familiar, such as computer-tomography (CT), which is routinely used in emergency rooms after any severe traumatism; magnetic resonance (MR), which is widely used to image joints and the brain; or positron-emission tomography (PET), which is mostly used for early detection of cancer tumors. In the last decade several of these techniques have been merged together in a single machine improving the quality of the diagnosis. For example, PET/CT devices combine the PET ability to image small cancer tumors with the CT ability to image the different structures in human body, therefore allowing the physicians to detect not only the small lesions but also their precise locations inside the patient body. For a longer explanation of my work at a non-expert level, visit the outreach section. If you are looking for the details of my work, take a look to my recent papers and talks.
