Alexander Lin
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical SchoolB.S., California Institute of Technology, Biology
M.S., California Institute of Technology, Bioengineering
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics221 Longwood, BLI-252
Boston, MA 02115
617-732-7556 (office)
617-979-8700 (fax)Research
Developing magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy techniques for in vivo characterization of diseases. Current research topics include identification of biomarkers for mild traumatic brain injury, post traumatic stress disorder, and chronic pain using advanced spectroscopic methods, imaging strain in the carotid arteries and myocardial wall, and breast spectroscopy.
Research Group: Center for Clinical Spectroscopy
Department: Radiology
Hospital: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Selected Publications
Mountford C, Stanwell P, Lin AP, Ramadan S, Ross BD. Neurospectroscopy: The Past, Present, and Future. Chem Rev (in publication)
Tran TT, Ross BD, Lin AP. Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Neurological Diagnosis. Neurologic Clinics. 2009; 27(1):21-60.
Lin AP, Bennett E, Wisk LE, Gharib M, Fraser SE, Wen H. Circumferential Strain in the Wall of the Common Carotid Artery: Comparing Displacement-Encoded and CINE MRI in Volunteers. Magn Reson Med. 2008; 60(1):8-13.
Haseler LJ, Lin A, Hoff J, Richardson RS. Oxygen availability and PCr recovery rate in untrained human calf muscle: evidence of metabolic limitation in normoxia. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2007 Nov;293(5):R2046-51.
Lin AP, Tran TT, Ross BD. Impact of evidence-based medicine on magnetic resonance spectroscopy. NMR Biomed. 2006 Jun;19(4):476-83..
Lin AP, Shic F, Enriquez E, Ross BD. (2003) "Reduced glutamate neurotransmission in patients with Alzheimer’s disease – an In Vivo 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopy study." MAGMA 16:29-42
Lin A, Bluml S, Mamelak A. "Efficacy of Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy In Clinical Decision Making for Patients with Suspected Malignant Brain Tumors." (1999) J. Neuro-Oncology. 45(1): 69-81