User:Pim

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Brain Innovation Employee & PhD Student

Pim Pullens, MSc

Visiting Address:

Universiteitssingel 40, room 1.773 Maastricht, The Netherlands

Postal Address:

PO Box 1142 6201 BC Maastricht, The Netherlands

Tel: ++31 43 3884064

Interests

Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Fiber tracking methods, Validation of DTI and fiber tracking, segmentation.

Current Projects

• Eddy Current Correction for DW-MRI: plug-in development in BrainVoyager. Supervisors: Prof Rainer Goebel PhD, Alard Roebroeck PhD
• Development of a Hardware Phantom for Validation of DW-MRI. Supervisors: Prof Rainer Goebel PhD, Alard Roebroeck PhD

Skills and expertise

MATLAB, Linux, LaTeX, Fiber tracking software, BrainVoyager

Publications

• Pullens WLPM, Roebroeck A and Goebel R, A hardware platform for DTI and fiber tracking, Proceedings of the First Benelux in Vivo Methods Symposium 58, December 2007.
• Pullens WLPM, Roebroeck A and Goebel R, Kissing or Crossing: Validation of DTI tractography using ground-truth hardware phantoms, Proceedings of ISMRM 15th Annual Meeting, 1479, 2007
• Shen KQ, Li XP, Pullens WLPM, Zheng H, Ong CJ, Wilder-Smith EPV, Key Feature Extraction for Fatigue Identification Using Random Forests, proc IEEE-EMBS 27 (2005), 2044-2047
• Parkes LM, Schwarzbach JV, Bouts AA, Deckers RHR, Pullens WLPM, Kerskens CM, Norris DG, Quantifying the spatial resolution of gradient echo and spin echo BOLD response at 3 Tesla, Magnet Reson Med 54(2005) 1465-1472

Visited Scientific Meetings

• August 10-16, 2007: 2nd BioMedical Engineering Summer School on Diffusion Weighted MRI. Naumburg & Schoenburg, Germany
• June 10-14, 2007: Annual Conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Chicago, USA
• May 18-25, 2007: Annual Conference of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Languages

• Dutch (native)
• English
• German intermediate

Education

• sept 2000-aug 2006 MSc in Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology (NL). Master track: Biomedical NMR/Biomedical Image Analysis
• sept 1999-aug 2000 International Business Administration, University of Maastricht (NL)
• sept 1997-aug 1999 Mechanical Engineering, track Medical Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)

Research Internships

• july 2004-dec 2004 National University of Singapore, Neurosensors Laboratory (SG)
• dec 2003-march 2004 FC Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen (NL)
• sept 2003-dec 2003 Maastricht University, Department of Movement Sciences, Maastricht (NL)