Background
Tom Bruijnen completed his Bachelors and Masters of Science (cum laude) at the Technical University of Eindhoven (the Netherlands) in Biomedical Engineering in 2011-2016. During his Master he visited the KCL Cardiac MRI group for a 5 month internship on cardiac Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting. After his internship he joined the radiotherapy department of the UMC Utrecht where he worked on intrafraction motion quantification of head-and-neck tumors for his MSc thesis. Tom is currently a PhD student in the Radiotherapy department of the UMC Utrecht and the Computational Imaging Group under the supervision of Rob Tijssen, Alessandro Sbrizzi, Nico van den Berg and Jan Lagendijk. During his PhD he works within the RESOLVE project, which is about enabling MR guided radiotherapy of moving abdominal tumors and organs by development of a dense eLement receiver array and highly undersampled, parallel MRI. Within this project Tom primarily develops new MR acquisition and reconstruction methods for pre-beam imaging on the MR-linac.

Projects

• Subject motion in MRI

Three most recent publications

• Huttinga NRF, Bruijnen T, van den Berg CAT, Sbrizzi A. Nonrigid 3D motion estimation at high temporal resolution from prospectively undersampled k-space data using low-rank MR-MOTUS. Magn Reson Med. 2020 Nov 10. doi: 10.1002/mrm.28562. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33169888. (paper)
• Bruijnen T, van der Heide O, Intven MPW, Mook S, Lagendijk JJW, Van den Berg CAT, Tijssen RHN. Technical feasibility of magnetic resonance fingerprinting on a 1.5T MRI-linac. Phys Med Biol. 2020 Sep 25. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/abbb9d. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32977318. (paper)
• Navest RJM, Mandija S, Bruijnen T, Stemkens B, Tijssen RHN, Andreychenko A, Lagendijk JJW, van den Berg CAT. The noise navigator: a surrogate for respiratory-correlated 4D-MRI for motion characterization in radiotherapy. Phys Med Biol. 2020 Jan 13;65(1):01NT02. PMID: 31775130. (paper)

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Keywords: Pulse programming & MR acquisition | Motion estimation/correction | (non)-Cartesian image reconstruction | MR-guided radiotherapy

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