James Pipe PhD

Jim Pipe, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Radiology and (by courtesy) the Department of Medical Physics. He is also the Director of High Value MRI in the Department of Radiology, and director of the Magnetic Resonance Technology and Use Design (MRTUD) group. He has earned a Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, and a second Master’s degree and PhD in Biomedical Engineering, all from the University of Michigan. He is a Fellow and Past President (2015-2016) of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), the global society dedicated to research and innovation in clinical Magnetic Resonance. He also served as Chair of the ISMRM 2012 annual meeting in Melbourne, six international ISMRM workshops on data sampling and image reconstruction, and a joint international workshop of ISMRM and the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) on High Value MRI.

Dr. Pipe’s research focuses on designing MRI technology that has a real, positive impact on patient care, with a technical emphasis on signal processing. He is best known for his invention of PROPELLER, a method specifically designed to eliminate the blurring that results when patients move during an MRI scan. This technology is now available on nearly all commercial scanners and used in millions of MRI exams each year. He continues to help establish the underpinnings for many next-generation methods such as Spiral MRI with a goal of increasing efficiency and access. He is an advocate for combining technology design with “use design” in order to improve the Value of MRI in a holistic sense in order to maximize impact on global healthcare and on individual patient outcomes, experience, and safety.