2010-2011 WMSG Student Representative - Rebecca Samson

Congratulations to Rebecca Samson, who won the election for WMSG student representative!

Thank you to all the candidates and everyone who voted.  Also thanks to Thor Bjarnason for administering the poll.

Rebecca completed a PhD under the supervision of Prof Paul Tofts at the UCL Institute of Neurology, focusing primarily on quantitative Magnetisation Transfer (qMT) imaging in the brain. She is currently working as a PostDoc at the UCL Institute of Neurology under Dr Claudia Wheeler-Kingshott and has continued to pursue research in the field of quantitative MRI, with a focus on multiple sclerosis. Her recent work has included the implementation of Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the optic nerves at 3.0T as well as quantitative relaxometry and qMT imaging, lesion probability mapping in MS, and most recently the investigation of parallel RF transmission in MTR mapping in the brain.