Emma is in her penultimate PhD year within i4Health CDT. She received her bachelors degree in Physics from the University of Surrey. She spent a year and a half working with the Royal Surrey County Hospital for the National Coordinating Centre for the Physics of Mammography. Her work there was focussed on validating the ability of synthetic 2D imaging, a 2D image created using a stack of digital breast tomosynthesis images, to replace planar 2D imaging in mammography. The nature of the work was creating digital phantoms and performing virtual clinical trials for the detection of simulated cancers.
She is currently working with Geoff Parker on developing MRI techniques for the quantitative measurement of water exchange across the blood brain barrier. Her main work uses an MR Fingerprinting technique to take quantitative measurement of multiple parameters simultaneously. This work combines simulation development and optimisation of sequences with testing on a 3T scanner.
