MRI Lab Personnel

Dr. A Ted Watson

Director of Rocky Mountain Magnetic Resonance (RMMR) and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Colorado State University (CSU). He received his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and PhD from the California Institute of Technology. Previously, Dr. Watson was Professor and Director of the Engineering Imaging Laboratory at Texas A&M University and Department Head at CSU. Dr. Watson's research interests include the development of NMR imaging methods, flow through permeable media, and system and parameter identification (SPI).

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A. Ted Watson
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
100 Engineering South/Glover 
Colorado State University 
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1370  

Telephone: (970) 491-5084
Email: Ted.Watson@colostate.edu

A. Ted Watson

Dr. John Baldo

Research scientist at (RMMR) and has broad experience in the MRI industry. He received his BA in Biochemistry at University of California, Berkeley and his MA and PhD in Physical Chemistry from Harvard University. Dr. Baldo has contributed to the commercial development of MRI though his work with GE NMR Instruments, Elscint, Hitachi Medical Systems, Varian NMR Instruments and Agilent’s Research Products division. Dr. Baldo’s research focus is on applications and methods development for MRI systems

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John Baldo
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
100 Engineering South/Glover 
Colorado State University 
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1370  

Telephone: (970) 491-1030
Email: John@Baldo.com

Dr. John Baldo

Benjamin Kohn, M.S.

Research associate at RMMR. He received his BS in Chemistry from Wright State University and MS in Physical Chemistry at CSU under the direction of the late Gary Maciel. Mr. Kohn's research interests include Solid State NMR, the development of novel MR methods, flow through permeable media, and biomass-to-fuel conversion processes.

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Benjamin Kohn
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
100 Engineering South/Glover 
Colorado State University 
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1370  

Telephone: (970) 491-1030
Email: Benjamin.Kohn@colostate.edu

Benjamin Kohn

Selected References from the Watson Group

Jinsoo Uh and A.T. Watson, “A Nonparametric Approach for Determining NMR relaxation Distributions,” Transport in Porous Media, 105, pp. 141--170, 2014.

Jinsoo Uh and A.T. Watson, “Determining Spatial Distributions of Permeability,” Transport in Porous Media, 86, pp. 385-414, 2011.

Jinsoo Uh and A. Ted Watson, “Modeling Fluid Flow in Permeable Media,” in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Chemical Engineering, Eds. S. Stapf and S. Han, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2006.

A.T. Watson, J.T. Hollenshead, J. Uh, and C.T.P. Chang, “NMR Determination of Porous Media Property Distributions,” Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy, Ed. G.A. Webb, 48, pp. 113–144, 2002.

A.T. Watson, J.T. Hollenshead, C.T.P. Chang, “Developing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Engineering Applications,” Inverse Problems in Engineering, 9(5), pp. 487–505, 2001.

Uh Jinsoo, A.T. Watson, “Determining Hydraulic Permeability Distributions in Cancellous Bone,” International Journal of Life Science and Medical Research, 9(5), pp. 487–505, 2001.

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