Advanced Magnetic Resonance Center

The Advanced Magnetic Resonance Center is shared by researchers at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) primarily as well as other researchers in Oklahoma. Our biomedical research interests include, but are not limited to, cancer biology, neurological disorders and cardiovascular pathologies.

Our research target themes are addressed with techniques such as basic morphological MRI (e.g. T1, T2 imaging), dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE) to establish location and extent of pathological lesions, MR angiography (MRA) to visualize vascularization, functional MRI (fMRI) to monitor tissue/organ response given a challenge function, and MR spectroscopy (MRS) to follow metabolic changes during a disease processes.

Advanced Magnetic Resonance Center

2013

Floyd RA, Castro Faria Neto HC, Zimmerman GA, Hensley K, Towner RA. Nitrone-based Therapeutics for Neurodegenerative Diseases. Their use alone or in Combination with Lanthionines. Free Radic Biol Med 2013. [Abstract] EPub

Gomez-Mejiba SE, Zhai Z, Della-Vedova MC, Munoz MD, Chatterjee S, Towner RA, Hensley K, Floyd RA, Mason RP, Ramirez DC. Immuno-spin trapping from biochemistry to medicine: Advances, challenges, and pitfalls. Focus on protein-centered radicals. Biochim Biophys Acta 2013. [Abstract] EPub

Piao D, Towner RA, Smith N, Chen WR. Magnetothermoacoustics from magnetic nanoparticles by short bursting or frequency chirped alternating magnetic field: A theoretical feasibility analysis. Med Phys 40:063301, 2013. [Abstract] EPub

Towner RA, Gillespie DL, Schwager A, Saunders DG, Smith N, Njoku CE, Krysiak RS, III, Larabee C, Iqbal H, Floyd RA, Bourne DW, Abdullah O, Hsu EW, Jensen RL. Regression of glioma tumor growth in F98 and U87 rat glioma models by the Nitrone OKN-007. Neuro Oncol 15:330-340, 2013. [Abstract]

* Towner RA, Jensen RL, Colman H, Vaillant B, Smith N, Casteel R, Saunders D, Gillespie DL, Silasi-Mansat R, Lupu F, Giles CB, Wren JD. ELTD1, A Potential new biomarker for gliomas. Neurosurgery 72:77-791, 2013. [Abstract]

* Towner RA, Smith N, Saunders D, Lupu F, Silasi-Mansat R, West M, Ramirez DC, Gomez-Mejiba SE, Bonini MG, Mason RP, Ehrenshaft M, Hensley K. In Vivo Detection of Free Radicals using Molecular MRI and Immuno-Spin-Trapping in a Mouse Models for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Free Radic Biol Med 2013. [Abstract] EPub
*Indicates publications by more than one department or group.

Advanced Magnetic Resonance Center, MS 60
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
825 NE 13th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73104

Phone: (405) 271-7232
Fax: (405) 271-7254
Email: Debra-Saunders@omrf.org