Alexej Jerschow Associate Professor of Chemistry B.S. University of Linz, Austria; Ph.D. University of Linz, Austria, and MR Center, Sintef-Unimed, Trondheim, Norway; Postdoc. University of Lausanne, Switzerland, University of California, Berkeley Email: alexej.jerschow@nyu.edu Phone:  212-998-8451 Personal Homepage:  http://www.nyu.edu/projects/jerschow/

Areas of Research/Interest: NMR spectroscopy, imaging, and microscopy; Theory and applications in materials sciences, biophysics, and quantum computation

Research Description: The Jerschow lab develops novel NMR/MRI methodology for improving the diagnostic power of images and to develop novel imaging modalities. Current projects include quadrupolar MRI contrast techniques, 23Na NMR/MRI of cartilage and the brain, chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI, and spin-noise NMR/MRI. These methods hold great promise for detecting early degenerative joint disease, or defective tissue in the brain in a noninvasive manner. Jerschow also collaborates with the Pratt Institute and the Metropolitan Museum to develop NMR techniques for use in conservation science.

Select Publications:
J. D. Walls, K. H. Lim, J. W. Logan, J. T. Urban, A. Jerschow, A. Pines, Theoretical investigations of I=5/2 quadrupolar spin dynamics in
the sudden-passage regime, J. Chem. Phys. 2002, 117, 518-32.

J. W. Logan, J. T. Urban, J. D. Walls, K. H. Lim, A. Jerschow, A. Pines, Investigations of low amplitude radio frequency pulses at and away from rotary resonance conditions for I=5/2 nuclei, Solid St. Nucl. Magn. Reson. 2002, 22, 97-109.

D. D. Laws, H. M. L. Bitter, A. Jerschow, Solid-state NMR Methods in Chemistry, Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. Engl. 2002, 41, 3096-3126.

A. Jerschow, R. Kumar, Calculation of Coherence Pathways and Cogwheel Cycling, J. Magn. Reson. 2003, 160, 59-64.

Book Chapter: A. Jerschow, Dipolar and Scalar Couplings in NMR of Quadrupolar Nuclei, In: Current Developments in SolidState NMR Spectroscopy (N. Müller and P. K. Madhu, Eds), Springer, Berlin 2003, 1.

R. Kumar, W. Ling, W. Schöfberger, and A. Jerschow, Separated Quadrupolar Field Experiment, J. Magn. Reson. 2005, 172, 209-213.

A. Jerschow, From Nuclear Structure to the Quadrupolar NMR Interaction and High-resolution Spectroscopy, Prog. Nucl. Magn. Reson. Spectroscopy, 2005.

S. Isaacman, R. Kumar, E. del Barco, A. D. Kent, J. W. Canary, and A. Jerschow, Critical Examination of Fe8 as a Contrast Agent for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Polyhedron, 2005. N. Müller, A. Jerschow, Nuclear Spin Noise Imaging, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., in press (2006).

J. Choy, W. Ling, A. Jerschow, Selective detection of ordered sodium signals via the central transition, J. Magn. Reson., 180 (2006) 105-109.

E. Del Federico, W. Schoefberger, J. Schelvis, S. Kapetanaki, L. Tyne, and A. Jerschow, Insight into Framework Destruction in Ultramarine Pigments, Inorg. Chem. , 45 (2006) 1270-1276.

Fellowships/Honors: NYU Whitehead Fellowship for Junior Faculty in the Biomedical and Biological Sciences, Erwin Schroedinger Fellowship (1997), Kepler International Program (1995)