Usha Sinha

Prof. Sinha received her PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1985. She is currently the Chair of the Department of Physics. Before arriving at SDSU she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology at UCLA from 2002 to 2007. Prof. Sinha has 54 journal publications and has written six book chapters. She has been awarded numerous research grants. The latest of which is a 5-year grant of nearly $2,000,000 expiring in 2008.

Sinha is a medical and imaging physicist specializing in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and informatics. Her areas of interest include development of novel techniques for quantitative imaging including diffusion and relaxivity imaging, creation of quantitative brain and musculoskeletal atlases capturing structure and function, and application of atlases of normal populations to explore subtle differences in diseased conditions. She is presently focused on segmentation of brain tumors and cartilage, characterization of brain tumors for decision support, creation of cartilage atlases with application to early detection of structural changes in osteoarthritis, and white matter brain atlases to explore age related changes and dementia.

For further information contact usinha@sciences.sdsu.edu