Orhan Nalcioglu Professor Radiological Physics/ Engineering (949) 824-6001  nalci@uci.edu

Professor Nalcioglu earned his B.S. from Robert College (1966), M.S. from Case-Western Reserve University (1968), and Ph.D. from the University of Oregon (1970). He has held positions at the University of California-Davis, University of Rochester, and University of Wisconsin. He has been at UCI since 1977 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), and International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). Professor Nalcioglu received the IEEE Third Millenium Medal in 2000 for his outstanding contributions to the society. More recently, he received the Richard Shea Distinguished member award from the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society (NPSS) for his pioneering contributions in the field of medical imaging and outstanding services to the society. This award is given annually to an outstanding member of the IEEE NPSS. He is Professor of Radiological Sciences, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics an d Cardiology. Professor Nalcioglu works in the development of new medical imaging systems and imaging techniques. He also serves as the Director of the Health Sciences Research Imaging Center within the College of Medicine.

Professor Nalcioglu is active in research in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Currently, he and his collaborators have built a 4 Tesla human MRI system that has wide applications covering brain and cancer imaging. At the present time, this is the strongest whole body system to the west of the Mississippi River. The system has been developed for human and animal imaging studies and has great flexibility for research in hardware and software development. An optical imaging system that will operate in the magnet is also being constructed in collaboration with the Beckman Laser Institute under the leaderhip of Dr. Bruce Tromberg. Plans are underway to build a small animal micro-PET system into the magnet to have multimodality imaging capabilities. His research area covers imaging instrumentation a well as development of image contrast agents. He has been very active in cancer imaging where he, in collaboration with others, has developed many new MR imaging techniques that can be used to detect cancer as well as to monitor tumors during therapy to determine the effectiveness of treatment. He has published over 160 scientific articles, over 250 conference papers, and co-edited 7 books.

Professor Nalcioglu has taught graduate courses in medical imaging as well as Physics 147A-B , Physics 233 A-B, and ECE 237 A-B courses.

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