Doctor Timothy Stait-Gardner
NCRIS FACILITY OFFICER (MRI),
Dean's Unit - School of Science and Health
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD University of Western Sydney
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Dean's Unit - School of Science and Health
Contact
| Email: | T.Stait-Gardner@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 3216 |
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| Location: | 21.33 Campbelltown |
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Biography
Dr Stait-Gardner obtained his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Western Sydney (UWS) in 2006. His PhD examined thermodynamics in the curved spacetime of general relativity. He was associated with the Fusion Research Group at UWS for three years beginning in 2000. His topic of study at the time was laser confinement and he worked specifically on the problem of deriving the form of the electromagnetic field from the vector potential for Laguerre-Gaussian Beams. Since completing his PhD, Dr Stait-Gardner has worked closely with the Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics group headed by Professor Price on a variety of projects in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance/Magnetic Resonance Imaging (NMR/MRI). Dr. Stait-Gardner is currently National Imaging Facility (NIF) officer at UWS. He has worked on collaborative projects with a variety of groups (from UWS, UNSW, USyd, CSIRO). These projects have ranged from assessing various contrast agents to determining the mechanical properties of skin, to investigating whether inorganic phosphorus regulates the rate of leaf photosynthesis and growth during phosphorus starvation.
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Publications
Chapters in Books
- Yadav, N., Stait-Gardner, T. and Price, W. (2011), 'Hardware Considerations for Diffusion MRI', Diffusion MRI - Theory, Methods and Applications, Oxford University Press 9780195369779.
Journal Articles
- Zheng, G., Stait-Gardner, T. and Price, W. (2013), 'Diffusion studies of dihydroxybenzene isomers in water-alcohol systems', Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 8.
- Stait-Gardner, T. and Price, W. (2013), 'Stress-induced grey matter loss determined by MRI is primarily due to loss of dendrites and their synapses', Molecular Neurobiology, 17.
- Stait-Gardner, T., Surmon, L., Makris, A., Lind, J., Price, W. and Hennessy, A. (2013), 'Magnetic resonance imaging detects placental hypoxia and acidosis in mouse models of perturbed pregnancies', PLoS ONE, 6.
- Stait-Gardner, T., Ghadirian, B. and Price, W. (2013), 'Numerical analysis of NMR diffusion measurements in the short gradient pulse limit', Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 11.
- Bourne, R., Kurniawan, N., Cowin, G., Stait-Gardner, T., Sved, P., Watson, G. and Price, W. (2012), 'Microscopic Diffusivity Compartmentation in Formalin-Fixed Prostate Tissue', Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 7.
- Bourne, R., Kurniawan, N., Cowin, G., Stait-Gardner, T., Sved, P., Watson, G., Chowdhury, S. and Price, W. (2012), 'Biexponential diffusion decay in formalin-fixed prostate tissue: Preliminary findings', Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 6.
- Bourne, R., Kurniawan, N., Cowin, G., Stait-Gardner, T., Sved, P., Watson, G. and Price, W. (2012), 'Microscopic diffusivity compartmentation in formalin-fixed prostate tissue', Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 7.
- Bourne, R., Kurniawan, N., Cowin, G., Stait-Gardner, T., Sved, P., Watson, G., Chowdhury, S. and Price, W. (2012), 'Biexponential diffusion decay in formalin-fixed prostate tissue : preliminary findings', Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 6.
- Ghadirian, B., Stait-Gardner, T., Hennessy, A. and Price, W. (2011), 'Energy Dissipation in Porous Media for Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Translational Motions', Diffusion Fundamentals, 21.
- Castillo, R. and Stait-Gardner, T. (2011), 'Laser acceleration up to black hole values and B-meson decay', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 7.
- Price, W., Stait-Gardner, T., Torres, A. and Zheng, G. (2010), 'Developments in NMR Diffusion Measurements and q-space Imaging', Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 22.
- Ghadirian, B., Stait-Gardner, T., Castillo, R. and Price, W. (2010), 'Modeling diffusion in restricted systems using the heat kernel expansion', Journal of Chemical Physics, 1.
- Sims, A., Stait-Gardner, T., Fong, L., Morley, J., Price, W., Hoffman, M., Simmons, A. and Schindhelm, J. (2010), 'Elastic and viscoelastic properties of porcine subdermal fat using MRI and inverse FEA', Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 9.
- Stait-Gardner, T. and Price, W. (2010), 'A physical interpretation of product operator terms', Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A: Bridging Education and Research, 35.
- Stait-Gardner, T., Willis, S., Yadav, N., Zheng, G. and Price, W. (2009), 'NMR Diffusion Measurements of Complex Systems', Diffusion Fundamentals, 22.
- Stait-Gardner, T. and Price, W. (2009), 'A Physical Interpretation of Product Operator Terms', Concepts of Magnetic Resonance Part A, 35.
- Zheng, G., Stait-Gardner, T., Payyadi Govardhan, A., Torres, A. and Price, W. (2008), 'PGSTE-WATERGATE: An STE-based PGSE NMR sequence with excellent solvent suppression', Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 5.
- Stait-Gardner, T., Payyadi Govardhan, A. and Price, W. (2008), 'Steady state effects in PGSE NMR diffusion experiments', Chemical Physical Letters, 6.
- Stait-Gardner, T. and Castillo, R. (2006), 'Difference between Hawking and Unruh radiation derived from studies about pair production by lasers in vacuum', Laser and Particle Beams, 25.
- Hora, H., Osman, F., Castillo, R., Collins, M., Stait-Gardner, T., Stait-Gardener, T. and Chan, W. (2002), 'Laser-generated pair production and Hawking-unruh radiation', Laser and Particle Beams, 8.
Conference Papers
- Castillo, R. and Stait-Gardner, T. (2011), 'Ultrahigh acceleration of plasma blocks from direct converting laser energy into motion by nonlinear forces', International Quantum Electronics Conference, Sydney, N.S.W..
Research
Current Projects
| Title: | Improving cancer management by direct detection with diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging [via USYD] |
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| Years: | 2012-01-01 - 2014-12-31 |
| ID: | P00020690 |
| UWS Researchers: | Bill Price and Timothy Stait-Gardner |
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| Title: | Development of Advanced MRI Techniques for Clinical Imaging |
| Years: | 2010-11-15 - 2013-11-14 |
| ID: | P00019301 |
| UWS Researchers: | Bill Price, Gang Zheng, Timothy Stait-Gardner and Allan Torres |
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| Title: | Development of Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrasts Agents |
| Years: | 2012-02-20 - 2015-02-27 |
| ID: | P00020868 |
| UWS Researchers: | Bill Price and Timothy Stait-Gardner |
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Previous Projects
| Title: | Development of ultrafast NMR diffusion techniques |
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| Years: | 1999-09-22 - 2011-03-21 |
| ID: | P00017381 |
| UWS Researchers: | Timothy Stait-Gardner |
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| Title: | Towards Quantitative Diffusive Tensor Imaging in Biological Tissue and its Visualisation |
| Years: | 2009-12-04 - 2011-02-28 |
| ID: | P00017732 |
| UWS Researchers: | Bill Price, Allan Torres and Timothy Stait-Gardner |
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| Title: | Post-processing methods for dramatically improving NMR signals and its applications |
| Years: | 2012-03-02 - 2013-03-01 |
| ID: | P00020582 |
| UWS Researchers: | Bill Price, Bahman Ghadirian, Gang Zheng, Timothy Stait-Gardner and Allan Torres |
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| Title: | NMR Diffusography |
| Years: | 2010-05-28 - 2011-05-27 |
| ID: | P00018722 |
| UWS Researchers: | Bill Price, Timothy Stait-Gardner, Allan Torres, Gang Zheng, Andrew Shalliker, Gary Dennis and Marion Gaborieau |
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Supervision
Current Supervision
| Title: | Implementation and Application of Advanced Diffusion Tensor Imaging Techniques at Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields |
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| Title: | NMR and MRI Studies of Restricted Diffusion |
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| Title: | Development of Dynamic MRI Contrasts and their Application to Biological Systems |
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