Dr

Sarah

Needleman

PhD

School of Medicine and Population Health

Post-doctoral Research Associate in Pulmonary MRI

s.h.needleman@sheffield.ac.uk

Polaris

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Dr Sarah Needleman

School of Medicine and Population Health

Polaris

18 Claremont Crescent

Sheffield

S10 2TA

Profile

My research advances the use of MRI to assess lung function.

I have previously focused on using inhaled pure oxygen as an MRI contrast agent, a technique known as oxygen-enhanced MRI (OE-MRI).

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Medical Imaging, University College London, 2020 - 2024
Master of Research in Medical Imaging (MRes), University College London, 2019 - 2020
Master of Natural Sciences (MSci), University of Cambridge, 2014 - 2018

Research interests

Lung MRI
Tissue oxygenation
Dynamic imaging

Publications

Journal articles

Cheung WK, Pakzad A, Mogulkoc N, Needleman SH, Rangelov B, Gudmundsson E, Zhao A, Abbas M, McLaverty D, Asimakopoulos D , Chapman R et al (2024) Interpolation-split: a data-centric deep learning approach with big interpolated data to boost airway segmentation performance. Journal of Big Data, 11(1). View this article in WRRO
Kim M, Naish JH, Needleman SH, Tibiletti M, Taylor Y, O'Connor JPB & Parker GJM (2024) Feasibility of dynamic T2*-based oxygen-enhanced lung MRI at 3T. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 91(3), 972-986. View this article in WRRO
Needleman SH, Kim M, McClelland JR, Naish JH, Tibiletti M, O'Connor JPB & Parker GJM (2024) Independent component analysis (ICA) applied to dynamic oxygen-enhanced MRI (OE-MRI) for robust functional lung imaging at 3 T. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 91(3), 955-971. View this article in WRRO
Cheung WK, Pakzad A, Mogulkoc N, Needleman S, Rangelov B, Gudmundsson E, Zhao A, Abbas M, McLaverty D, Asimakopoulos D , Chapman R et al (2023) Automated airway quantification associates with mortality in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. European Radiology, 33(11), 8228-8238. View this article in WRRO
Vaidya JS, Williams NR, Bulsara M, Brew-Graves C, Potyka I, Roberts N, Lindsay J, Laws S, Raj S, Douek M , Falzon M et al () A novel methodology using direct patient contact and UK national registries to collect long-term data from randomised trials: TARGIT-X – an extended follow-up study of the TARGIT-A trial of targeted intraoperative radiotherapy for breast cancer. Health Technology Assessment, 1-32.

Conference proceedings

Needleman S, Kim M, McClelland J, Tibiletti M, Naish J, O'Connor J & Parker G () Functional Lung MRI at 3.0 T using Oxygen-Enhanced MRI (OE-MRI) and Independent Component Analysis (ICA). ISMRM Annual Meeting, 7 May 2022 - 12 May 2022.