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Katy Keenan
Mechanical Engineering & Radiology
Profs. Scott Delp (Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering), Garry Gold (Radiology), and Gary Beaupre (Mechanical Engineering)
Bio-X
Graduate Student Fellowships 2006/2007
The goal of Katy’s work is to better diagnose cartilage health, enabling early detection of diseases such as osteoarthritis. Currently, because cartilage disease cannot be diagnosed early, there is no metric of cartilage health to non-invasively evaluate restorative therapies. She is combining magnetic resonance imaging techniques with mechanical testing of ex vivo cartilage to develop a correlation between imaging parameters and mechanical properties of cartilage. Several of the novel MRI techniques she is using, e.g. sodium, T1rho and bound pool fraction maps, are being developed at Stanford. She will translate the correlation between imaging parameters and mechanical properties to in vivo imaging of human patients. |
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