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:
R. R. Regatte, Y. Wu, L. Wang, N. Oensingmann, M. E. Schweitzer, A. Jerschow, G. Chang, Rapid Isotropic 3D-Sodium MRI of Knee Joint In-vivo at 7T. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging, 2009, 30, 606-614.

J.-S. Lee, R. R. Regatte, A. Jerschow, Optimal nuclear magnetic resonance excitation schemes for the central transition of a spin 3/2 in the presence of residual quadrupolar coupling J. Chem. Phys., 2008, 129, 224510, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3036005.

C. S. Shekar, A. Jerschow*, Irreducible Spherical Tensor Analysis of Quadrupolar Nuclei Chem. Phys. Lett. 2008, 464, 235-239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2008.08.072.

P. Rong, R. R. Regatte, A. Jerschow*, Clean Demarcation of Cartilage Tissue ²³Na by Inversion Recovery, J. Magn. Reson. 2008, 193, 207–209.

W. Ling, R. R. Regatte, G. Navon, A. Jerschow*, Assessment of Glycosaminoglycan Concentration in Vivo by Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (gagCEST). Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 2008, 105, 2266-70.

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