Dan Ma

Positions

• Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
• Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering

Publications

• McCullum L, Mulder SL, West NA, Scott H, Rojas DC, Belal Z, et al. Technical Optimization of SyntheticMR for the Head and Neck on a 3T MR-Simulator and 1.5T MR-Linac: A Prospective R-IDEAL Stage 2a Technology Innovation Report. medRxiv. 2025 Apr 10;
• Fuderer M, Wichtmann B, Crameri F, de Souza NM, Baeu00dfler B, Gulani V, et al. Color-map recommendation for MR relaxometry maps. Magn Reson Med. 2025 Feb;93(2):490u2013506.
• Zhu Y, Wang G, Gu Y, Zhao W, Lu J, Zhu J, et al. 3D MR fingerprinting for dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging of whole mouse brain. Magn Reson Med. 2025 Jan;93(1):67u201379.
• Su T-Y, Choi JY, Hu S, Wang X, Blu00fcmcke I, Chiprean K, et al. Multiparametric Characterization of Focal Cortical Dysplasia Using 3D MR Fingerprinting. Annals of neurology. 2024 Nov;96(5):944u201357.
• Hu S, Qiu Z, Adams RJ, Zhao W, Boyacioglu R, Calvetti D, et al. Efficient pulse sequence design framework for high-dimensional MR fingerprinting scans using systematic error index. Magn Reson Med. 2024 Oct;92(4):1600u201316.
• McCullum L, Mulder S, West N, Aghoghovbia R, Ali AMS, Scott H, et al. Technical Development and In Silico Implementation of SyntheticMR in Head and Neck Adaptive Radiation Therapy: A Prospective R-IDEAL Stage 0/1 Technology Development Report. medRxiv. 2024 Sep 30;
• Boudreau M, Karakuzu A, Cohen-Adad J, Bozkurt E, Carr M, Castellaro M, et al. Repeat it without me: Crowdsourcing the T1 mapping common ground via the ISMRM reproducibility challenge. Magn Reson Med. 2024 Sep;92(3):1115u201327.
• Ding Z, Hu S, Su T-Y, Choi JY, Morris S, Wang X, et al. Combining magnetic resonance fingerprinting with voxel-based morphometric analysis to reduce false positives for focal cortical dysplasia detection. Epilepsia. 2024 Jun;65(6):1631u201343.
• Qiu Z, Hu S, Zhao W, Sakaie K, Sun JEP, Griswold MA, et al. Self-calibrated subspace reconstruction for multidimensional MR fingerprinting for simultaneous relaxation and diffusion quantification. Magn Reson Med. 2024 May;91(5):1978u201393.
• Ma D, Badve C, Sun JEP, Hu S, Wang X, Chen Y, et al. Motion Robust MR Fingerprinting Scan to Image Neonates With Prenatal Opioid Exposure. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2024 May;59(5):1758u201368.
• Dupuis A, Chen Y, Hansen M, Chow K, Sun JEP, Badve C, et al. Quantifying 3D MR fingerprinting (3D-MRF) reproducibility across subjects, sessions, and scanners automatically using MNI atlases. Magn Reson Med. 2024 May;91(5):2074u201388.
• Choi JY, Hu S, Su T-Y, Murakami H, Tang Y, Blu00fcmcke I, et al. Normative quantitative relaxation atlases for characterization of cortical regions using magnetic resonance fingerprinting. Cereb Cortex. 2023 Mar 21;33(7):3562u201374.
• Afzali M, Mueller L, Sakaie K, Hu S, Chen Y, Szczepankiewicz F, et al. MR Fingerprinting with b-Tensor Encoding for Simultaneous Quantification of Relaxation and Diffusion in a Single Scan. Magn Reson Med. 2022 Nov;88(5):2043u201357.
• Feng L, Ma D, Liu F. Rapid MR relaxometry using deep learning: An overview of current techniques and emerging trends. NMR in biomedicine. 2022 Apr;35(4):e4416.
• Chen Y, Lu L, Zhu T, Ma D. Technical overview of magnetic resonance fingerprinting and its applications in radiation therapy. Med Phys. 2022 Apr;49(4):2846u201360.
• Weingu00e4rtner S, Desmond KL, Obuchowski NA, Baessler B, Zhang Y, Biondetti E, et al. Development, validation, qualification, and dissemination of quantitative MR methods: Overview and recommendations by the ISMRM quantitative MR study group. Magn Reson Med. 2022 Mar;87(3):1184u2013206.
• Tippareddy C, Zhao W, Sunshine JL, Griswold M, Ma D, Badve C. Magnetic resonance fingerprinting: an overview. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2021 Dec;48(13):4189u2013200.
• Jordan SP, Hu S, Rozada I, McGivney DF, Boyaciou011flu R, Jacob DC, et al. Automated design of pulse sequences for magnetic resonance fingerprinting using physics-inspired optimization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2021 Oct;118(40):e2020516118.
• MacAskill CJ, Markley M, Farr S, Parsons A, Perino JR, McBennett K, et al. Rapid B1-Insensitive MR Fingerprinting for Quantitative Kidney Imaging. Radiology. 2021 Aug;300(2):380u20137.
• Boyacioglu R, Wang C, Ma D, McGivney DF, Yu X, Griswold MA. 3D magnetic resonance fingerprinting with quadratic RF phase. Magn Reson Med. 2021 Apr;85(4):2084u201394.
• Dastmalchian S, Kilinc O, Onyewadume L, Tippareddy C, McGivney D, Ma D, et al. Radiomic analysis of magnetic resonance fingerprinting in adult brain tumors. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2021 Mar;48(3):683u201393.
• MacAskill CJ, Erokwu BO, Markley M, Parsons A, Farr S, Zhang Y, et al. Multi-parametric MRI of kidney disease progression for autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease: mouse model and initial patient results. Pediatric research. 2021 Jan;89(1):157u201362.
• Hall RC, Ayat NR, Qiao PL, Vaidya AM, Ma D, Aminoshariae A, et al. Preclinical Assessment of the Effectiveness of Magnetic Resonance Molecular Imaging of Extradomain-B Fibronectin for Detection and Characterization of Oral Cancer. Mol Imaging Biol. 2020 Dec;22(6):1532u201342.
• McGivney DF, Boyacu0131ou011flu R, Jiang Y, Poorman ME, Seiberlich N, Gulani V, et al. Magnetic resonance fingerprinting review part 2: Technique and directions. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2020 Apr;51(4):993u20131007.
• Poorman ME, Martin MN, Ma D, McGivney DF, Gulani V, Griswold MA, et al. Magnetic resonance fingerprinting Part 1: Potential uses, current challenges, and recommendations. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2020 Mar;51(3):675u201392.
• Ku00f6rzdu00f6rfer G, Kirsch R, Liu K, Pfeuffer J, Hensel B, Jiang Y, et al. Reproducibility and Repeatability of MR Fingerprinting Relaxometry in the Human Brain. Radiology. 2019 Aug;292(2):429u201337.
• Ma D, Jones SE, Deshmane A, Sakaie K, Pierre EY, Larvie M, et al. Development of high-resolution 3D MR fingerprinting for detection and characterization of epileptic lesions. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2019 May 1;49(5).
• Ma D, Jones SE, Deshmane A, Sakaie K, Pierre EY, Larvie M, et al. Development of high-resolution 3D MR fingerprinting for detection and characterization of epileptic lesions. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2019 May;49(5):1333u201346.
• Deshmane A, McGivney DF, Ma D, Jiang Y, Badve C, Gulani V, et al. Partial volume mapping using magnetic resonance fingerprinting. NMR Biomed. 2019 May;32(5):e4082.
• Ku00f6rzdu00f6rfer G, Jiang Y, Speier P, Pang J, Ma D, Pfeuffer J, et al. Magnetic resonance field fingerprinting. Magn Reson Med. 2019 Apr;81(4):2347u201359.
• Bo Zhao, Haldar JP, Congyu Liao, Dan Ma, Yun Jiang, Griswold MA, et al. Optimal Experiment Design for Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting: Cramu00e9r-Rao Bound Meets Spin Dynamics. IEEE transactions on medical imaging. 2019 Mar;38(3):844u201361.
• Hamilton JI, Jiang Y, Ma D, Chen Y, Lo W-C, Griswold M, et al. Simultaneous multislice cardiac magnetic resonance fingerprinting using low rank reconstruction. NMR in biomedicine. 2019 Feb;32(2):e4041.
• Chen Y, Panda A, Pahwa S, Hamilton JI, Dastmalchian S, McGivney DF, et al. Three-dimensional MR Fingerprinting for Quantitative Breast Imaging. Radiology. 2019 Jan;290(1):33u201340.
• de Blank P, Badve C, Gold DR, Stearns D, Sunshine J, Dastmalchian S, et al. Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting to Characterize Childhood and Young Adult Brain Tumors. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2019;54(5):310u20138.
• Bipin Mehta B, Coppo S, Frances McGivney D, Ian Hamilton J, Chen Y, Jiang Y, et al. Magnetic resonance fingerprinting: a technical review. Magn Reson Med. 2019 Jan;81(1):25u201346.
• Mehta BB, Ma D, Pierre EY, Jiang Y, Coppo S, Griswold MA. Image reconstruction algorithm for motion insensitive MR Fingerprinting (MRF): MORF. Magn Reson Med. 2018 Dec;80(6):2485u2013500.
• Gu Y, Wang CY, Anderson CE, Liu Y, Hu H, Johansen ML, et al. Fast magnetic resonance fingerprinting for dynamic contrast-enhanced studies in mice. Magn Reson Med. 2018 Dec;80(6):2681u201390.
• Hamilton JI, Jiang Y, Ma D, Lo W-C, Gulani V, Griswold M, et al. Investigating and reducing the effects of confounding factors for robust T1 and T2 mapping with cardiac MR fingerprinting. Magn Reson Imaging. 2018 Nov;53:40u201351.
• Wright KL, Jiang Y, Ma D, Noll DC, Griswold MA, Gulani V, et al. Estimation of perfusion properties with MR Fingerprinting Arterial Spin Labeling. Magn Reson Imaging. 2018 Jul;50:68u201377.
• McGivney D, Deshmane A, Jiang Y, Ma D, Badve C, Sloan A, et al. Bayesian estimation of multicomponent relaxation parameters in magnetic resonance fingerprinting. Magn Reson Med. 2018 Jul;80(1):159u201370.
• Ma D, Jiang Y, Chen Y, McGivney D, Mehta B, Gulani V, et al. Fast 3D magnetic resonance fingerprinting for a whole-brain coverage. Magnetic resonance in medicine. 2018 Apr;79(4):2190u20137.
• Yang M, Ma D, Jiang Y, Hamilton J, Seiberlich N, Griswold MA, et al. Low rank approximation methods for MR fingerprinting with large scale dictionaries. Magn Reson Med. 2018 Apr;79(4):2392u2013400.
• Zhao B, Setsompop K, Adalsteinsson E, Gagoski B, Ye H, Ma D, et al. Improved magnetic resonance fingerprinting reconstruction with low-rank and subspace modeling. Magnetic resonance in medicine. 2018 Feb;79(2):933u201342.
• Jiang Y, Ma D, Bhat H, Ye H, Cauley SF, Wald LL, et al. Use of pattern recognition for unaliasing simultaneously acquired slices in simultaneous multislice MR fingerprinting. Magn Reson Med. 2017 Nov;78(5):1870u20136.
• Ma D, Coppo S, Chen Y, McGivney DF, Jiang Y, Pahwa S, et al. Slice profile and B₁ corrections in 2D magnetic resonance fingerprinting. Magnetic resonance in medicine. 2017 Nov;78(5):1781u20139.
• Jiang Y, Ma D, Keenan KE, Stupic KF, Gulani V, Griswold MA. Repeatability of magnetic resonance fingerprinting T1 and T2 estimates assessed using the ISMRM/NIST MRI system phantom. Magn Reson Med. 2017 Oct;78(4):1452u20137.
• Panda A, Mehta BB, Coppo S, Jiang Y, Ma D, Seiberlich N, et al. Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting-An Overview. Current opinion in biomedical engineering. 2017 Sep;3:56u201366.
• Ye H, Cauley SF, Gagoski B, Bilgic B, Ma D, Jiang Y, et al. Simultaneous multislice magnetic resonance fingerprinting (SMS-MRF) with direct-spiral slice-GRAPPA (ds-SG) reconstruction. Magn Reson Med. 2017 May;77(5):1966u201374.
• Hamilton JI, Jiang Y, Chen Y, Ma D, Lo WC, Griswold M, et al. MR fingerprinting for rapid quantification of myocardial T1, T2, and proton spin density. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2017 Apr 1;77(4):C1.
• Hamilton JI, Jiang Y, Chen Y, Ma D, Lo W-C, Griswold M, et al. MR fingerprinting for rapid quantification of myocardial T₁ , T₂ , and proton spin density. Magnetic resonance in medicine. 2017 Apr;77(4):1446u201358.
• Jiang Y, Ma D, Jerecic R, Duerk J, Seiberlich N, Gulani V, et al. MR fingerprinting using the quick echo splitting NMR imaging technique. Magn Reson Med. 2017 Mar;77(3):979u201388.
• Badve C, Yu A, Dastmalchian S, Rogers M, Ma D, Jiang Y, et al. MR Fingerprinting of Adult Brain Tumors: Initial Experience. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2017 Mar;38(3):492u20139.
• Ma D, Pierre EY, Jiang Y, Schluchter MD, Setsompop K, Gulani V, et al. Music-based magnetic resonance fingerprinting to improve patient comfort during MRI examinations. Magn Reson Med. 2016 Jun;75(6):2303u201314.
• Pierre EY, Ma D, Chen Y, Badve C, Griswold MA. Multiscale reconstruction for MR fingerprinting. Magn Reson Med. 2016 Jun;75(6):2481u201392.
• Ye H, Ma D, Jiang Y, Cauley SF, Du Y, Wald LL, et al. Accelerating magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) using t-blipped simultaneous multislice (SMS) acquisition. Magn Reson Med. 2016 May;75(5):2078u201385.
• Chen Y, Jiang Y, Pahwa S, Ma D, Lu L, Twieg MD, et al. MR Fingerprinting for Rapid Quantitative Abdominal Imaging. Radiology. 2016 Apr;279(1):278u201386.
• Hamilton JI, Jiang Y, Ma D, Mehta BB, Lo WC, Chen Y, et al. Cardiac MR fingerprinting for T1 and T2 mapping in four heartbeats. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 2016 Jan 1;18:1u20133.
• Jiang Y, Ma D, Seiberlich N, Gulani V, Griswold MA. MR fingerprinting using fast imaging with steady state precession (FISP) with spiral readout. Magnetic resonance in medicine. 2015 Dec;74(6):1621u201331.
• Cauley SF, Setsompop K, Ma D, Jiang Y, Ye H, Adalsteinsson E, et al. Fast group matching for MR fingerprinting reconstruction. Magn Reson Med. 2015 Aug;74(2):523u20138.
• Gao Y, Chen Y, Ma D, Jiang Y, Herrmann KA, Vincent JA, et al. Preclinical MR fingerprinting (MRF) at 7 T: effective quantitative imaging for rodent disease models. NMR Biomed. 2015 Mar;28(3):384u201394.
• McGivney DF, Pierre E, Ma D, Jiang Y, Saybasili H, Gulani V, et al. SVD compression for magnetic resonance fingerprinting in the time domain. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2014 Dec;33(12):2311u201322.
• Barkauskas KJ, Rajiah P, Ashwath R, Hamilton JI, Chen Y, Ma D, et al. Quantification of left ventricular functional parameter values using 3D spiral bSSFP and through-time non-Cartesian GRAPPA. Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonanceu202f: official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 2014 Sep;16:65.
• Ma D, Gulani V, Seiberlich N, Liu K, Sunshine JL, Duerk JL, et al. Magnetic resonance fingerprinting. Nature. 2013 Mar;495(7440):187u201392.
• Ma D, Wolf P, Clough AV, Schmidt TG. The performance of MLEM for dynamic imaging from simulated few-view, multi-pinhole SPECT. IEEE Trans Nucl Sci. 2013 Feb;60(1).
• Ehses P, Seiberlich N, Ma D, Breuer FA, Jakob PM, Griswold MA, et al. IR TrueFISP with a golden-ratio-based radial readout: fast quantification of T1, T2, and proton density. Magn Reson Med. 2013 Jan;69(1):71u201381.
• Ma D, Clough AV, Schmidt TG. Multi-pinhole dynamic SPECT imaging: Simulation and system optimization. In: Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE. 2010.