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Chantal Tax

Assistant Professor

Strategic program(s):

Biography

I have received my masters in Medical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology in 2012 and PhD in Medical Imaging (with a focus on diffusion MRI) in 2016 at the UMCU. Since then, I have been working at CUBRIC, Cardiff University in the UK on extracting new information from multi-contrast MRI experiments with the ultra-strong gradient Connectom MRI scanner. I am interested in optimising different aspects of the preprocessing and analysis pipeline, as  well as applying differential geometric methods to diffusion MRI data. My work at the Image Sciences Institute focuses on optimising MRI experiment design for MRI scanners with clinical gradient systems.

Research groups

Precision imaging

Research aim

Our research lines incorporate inventions of MR technology to be able to see the unseen for advancing medicine. Our clinical research focus areas are cancer, dementia, cardiovascular, stroke and MSK.
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Image sciences institute

Research aim

Our aim is to develop and evaluate medical image analysis and acquisition methods that help to answer research questions relevant to the strategic research programs, and that will benefit clinical imaging and image-guided interventions.
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Translational neuroimaging group

Research aim

To develop and apply advanced MRI methods for (pre)clinical research on neuronal and cerebrovascular biology in order to: 1) unravel critical aspects of brain impairment and recovery 2) advance brain treatments (focus: cerebrovascular diseases).
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Recent publications

Diffusion-weighted MR spectroscopy Clémence Ligneul, Chloé Najac, André Döring, Christian Beaulieu, Francesca Branzoli, William T Clarke, Cristina Cudalbu, Guglielmo Genovese, Saad Jbabdi, Ileana Jelescu, Dimitrios Karampinos, Roland Kreis, Henrik Lundell, Małgorzata Marjańska, Harald E Möller, Jessie Mosso, Eloïse Mougel, Stefan Posse, Stefan Ruschke, Kadir Simsek, Filip Szczepankiewicz, Assaf Tal, Chantal Tax, Georg Oeltzschner, Marco Palombo, Itamar Ronen, Julien Valette
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2024, vol. 91, p.860-885
White Matter Microstructural Changes Using Ultra-Strong Diffusion Gradient MRI in Adult-Onset Idiopathic Focal Cervical Dystonia Claire L. MacIver, Derek Jones, Katy Green, Konrad Szewczyk-Krolikowski, Andre Doring, Chantal M.W. Tax, Kathryn J. Peall
Neurology, 2024, vol. 103
Optimisation of quantitative brain diffusion-relaxation MRI acquisition protocols with physics-informed machine learning Álvaro Planchuelo-Gómez, Maxime Descoteaux, Hugo Larochelle, Jana Hutter, Derek K. Jones, Chantal M.W. Tax
Medical Image Analysis, 2024, vol. 94
Feasibility study to unveil the potential Anouk S. Verschuur, Chantal M.W. Tax, Martijn F. Boomsma, Helen L. Carlson, Gerda van Wezel-Meijler, Regan King, Alexander Leemans, Lara M. Leijser
Frontiers in radiology, 2024, vol. 4
Macro- and micro-structural insights into primary dystonia Claire L MacIver, Grace Bailey, Pedro Luque Laguna, Megan E Wadon, Ann-Kathrin Schalkamp, Cynthia Sandor, Derek K Jones, Chantal M W Tax, Kathryn J Peall
Journal of Neurology, 2023, vol. 271, p.1416-1427
Estimating axon radius using diffusion-relaxation MRI Muhamed Barakovic, Marco Pizzolato, Chantal M.W. Tax, Umesh Rudrapatna, Stefano Magon, Tim B. Dyrby, Cristina Granziera, Jean Philippe Thiran, Derek K. Jones, Erick J. Canales-Rodríguez
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023, vol. 17

External positions

Senior Research Fellow - MRI onderzoek - Cardiff University