Principal investigator
Kurt G. Schilling, PhD
Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Kurt Schilling is an Assistant Professor in Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University.
His research focuses on measuring tissue microstructure and structural connectivity with MRI. His group develops and evaluates diffusion MRI methods for the brain and spinal cord, using histology and anatomical reference data to test what these measurements can resolve. Current work includes tractography validation, white matter variation across the lifespan, superficial white matter, and spinal cord imaging.
He earned his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, completed postdoctoral training at the Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, and joined the faculty as a Research Assistant Professor in 2020.
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