Brad Sutton
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Education
- Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2003
Biography
Dr. Sutton joined the Bioengineering Department at the University of Illinois in January, 2006. Dr. Sutton received a B.S. in General Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned M.S.'s in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2003. He has affiliations with the Beckman Institute, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and the Neuroscience Program. His research interests are in developing magnetic resonance imaging acquisition, image reconstruction, and systems modeling approaches to understand brain function.
Academic Positions
- Health Innovation Professor, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, 8/2022 - 7/2027
- Professor, Bioengineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 8/2017-present
- Abel Bliss Scholar, College of Engineering, UIUC 2014-
- Technical Director, Biomedical Imaging Center, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 5/2014-present
Research Interests
- Neuromuscular coupling
- Image Reconstruction
- Magnetic Susceptibility
- Diffusion Weighted Imaging
- Dynamic Imaging
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Research Areas
- Biomedical imaging
- Biomedical Imaging, Bioengineering, and Acoustics
- Biosensors and bioelectronics
- Diffusion weighted imaging
- Dynamic imaging
- Functional MRI
- Image reconstruction
- Instrumentation
- Magnetic susceptibility
- MRI
- Neural engineering (general)
- Neuromuscular coupling
- Systems modeling approaches to understand brain function
Research Topics
- Bioelectronics and Bioinformatics
- Bioimaging at Multi-Scale
- Computational science and engineering
- Data/Information Science and Systems
- Healthcare and medical technologies
- Imaging science and systems
- Medical imaging
- Neural Engineering
- Neuro-engineering
Selected Articles in Journals
- Chai Y, Morgan AT, Xie H, Li L, Huber L, Bandettini PA, Sutton BP. Unlocking near-whole-brain, layer-specific functional connectivity with 3D VAPER fMRI. Imaging Neuroscience, in press, 2024.
- Naughton N, Cahoon S, Sutton B, Georgiadis JG. Accelerated, physics-inspired inference of skeletal muscle microstructure from diffusion-weighted MRI. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2024 May 6;PP. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2024.3397790. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38709599.
- Zhang M, Olivero WC, Huston JM, Pappu S, Arnold PM, Biswas A, Anderson AT, Sutton BP. Measuring CSF shunt flow with MRI using flow enhancement of signal intensity (FENSI). Magn Reson Med. 2024 Mar 12;. doi: 10.1002/mrm.30079. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38469904; NIHMSID:NIHMS1977522.
- Bowie DC, Low KA, Rubenstein SL, Islam SS, Zimmerman B, Camacho PB, Sutton BP, Gratton G, Fabiani M. Neurovascular Mechanisms of Cognitive Aging: Sex-Related Differences in the Average Progression of Arteriosclerosis, White Matter Atrophy, and Cognitive Decline. bioRxiv. 2024 Mar 21;. doi: 10.1101/2023.09.06.556562. PubMed PMID: 38562861; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10983862.
- Cai LT, Moon J, Camacho PB, Anderson AT, Chwa WJ, Sutton BP, Markowitz AJ, Palacios EM, Rodriguez A, Manley GT, Shankar S, Bremer PT, Mukherjee P, Madduri RK. MaPPeRTrac: A Massively Parallel, Portable, and Reproducible Tractography Pipeline. Neuroinformatics. 2024 Apr;22(2):177-191. doi: 10.1007/s12021-024-09650-0. Epub 2024 Mar 6. PubMed PMID: 38446357.
- Williamson JN, James SA, Mullen SP, Sutton BP, Wszalek T, Mulyana B, Mukli P, Yabluchanskiy A, Yang Y. Sex differences in interacting genetic and functional connectivity biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease. Geroscience. 2024 Apr 10;. doi: 10.1007/s11357-024-01151-x. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38598069.
- Perry JL, Snodgrass TD, Gilbert IR, Sutton BP, Baylis AL, Weidler EM, Tse RW, Ishman SL, Sitzman TJ. Establishing a Clinical Protocol for Velopharyngeal MRI and Interpreting Imaging Findings. Cleft Palate Craniofac J. 2024 May;61(5):748-758. doi: 10.1177/10556656221141188. Epub 2022 Nov 30. PubMed PMID: 36448363; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10243551.
- Jin R, Li Y, Shosted RK, Xing F, Gilbert I, Perry JL, Woo J, Liang ZP, Sutton BP. Optimization of 3D dynamic speech MRI: Poisson-disc undersampling and locally higher-rank reconstruction through partial separability model with regional optimized temporal basis. Magn Reson Med. 2024 Jan;91(1):61-74. doi: 10.1002/mrm.29812. Epub 2023 Sep. PMID: 37677043
- Shaffer A, Nigh N, Weisbaum D, Anderson A, Wszalek T, Sutton BP, Webb A, Damon B, Moussa I, Arnold PM. Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Implant Compatibility With Ultrahigh Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (4.7 Tesla and 7 Tesla). Am J Cardiol. 2023 Aug 15;201:239-246. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2023.05.062. Epub 2023 Jun 30. PMID: 37392607
- Li X, Chen H, Hu Y, Larsen RJ, Sutton BP, McElwain NL, Gao W. Functional neural network connectivity at 3 months predicts infant-mother dyadic flexibility during play at 6 months. Cereb Cortex. 2023 Jun 20;33(13):8321-8332. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhad117. PMID: 37020357
- Gothe NP, Erlenbach E, Garcia V, Malani R, Voss S, Camacho PB, McAuley E, Burd N, Sutton BP, Damoiseaux JS. Yoga, aerobic and stretching exercise effects on neurocognition: Randomized controlled trial protocol. Contemp Clin Trials. 2023 Aug;131:107240. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2023.107240. Epub 2023 May 25. PMID: 37244365
- Canada KL, Saifullah S, Gardner JC, Sutton BP, Fabiani M, Gratton G, Raz N, Daugherty AM. Development and validation of a quality control procedure for automatic segmentation of hippocampal subfields. Hippocampus. 2023 Sep;33(9):1048-1057. doi: 10.1002/hipo.23552. Epub 2023 May 28. PMID: 37246462
- Perry JL, Gilbert IR, Xing F, Jin R, Kuehn DP, Shosted RK, Woo J, Liang ZP, Sutton BP. Preliminary Development of an MRI Atlas for Application to Cleft Care: Findings and Future Recommendations. Cleft Palate Craniofac J. 2023 Jun 19;:10556656231183385. doi: 10.1177/10556656231183385. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37335134.
- Hu Y, Chen H, Li X, Larsen RJ, Sutton BP, Gao W, McElwain NL. Associations between infant amygdala functional connectivity and social engagement following a stressor: A preliminary investigation. Dev Sci. 2024 Jan;27(1):e13418. doi: 10.1111/desc.13418. Epub 2023 Jun 20. PubMed PMID: 37340633; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10730773.
- Schmidt SA, Shahsavarani S, Khan RA, Tai Y, Granato EC, Willson CM, Ramos P, Sherman P, Esquivel C, Sutton BP, Husain FT. An examination of the reliability of seed-to-seed resting state functional connectivity in tinnitus patients. Neuroimage: Reports. 2023; 3(1), 100158.
- Shaffer A, Weisbaum D, Naik A, Anderson A, Wszalek T, Cohen M, Sutton B, Webb A, Damon B, Arnold PM. Neurosurgical Implant Safety in 7 T MRI: A Scoping Review. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2023;57(3):661-9.
- Jin R, Shosted RK, Xing F, Gilbert IR, Perry JL, Woo J, Liang ZP, Sutton BP. Enhancing linguistic research through 2-mm isotropic 3D dynamic speech MRI optimized by sparse temporal sampling and low-rank reconstruction. Magn Reson Med. 2023;89(2):652-64. PMCID: PMC9712260.
- Patel TD, Uzoaru I, Sutton BP, Arnold PM. Myeloid sarcoma of the thoracic spine: A case report. Surg Neurol Int. 2023;14:35. PMCID: PMC9990772.
- Tucker N, Sutton BP, Duncan C, Lu C, Koyejo S, Tsung AJ, Maksimovic J, Ralph T, Pieta SM, Bramlet MT. Fully automated conversion of glioma clinical MRI scans into a 3D virtual reality model for presurgical planning. Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM); San Diego, CA: IEEE; 2022. p. 392-403.
- Foss KD, Keller KA, Kehoe SP, Sutton BP. Establishing an MRI-Based Protocol and Atlas of the Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps) Brain. Front Vet Sci. 2022;9:886333. PMCID: PMC9136876.
- Egan MK, Larsen R, Wirsich J, Sutton BP, Sadaghiani S. Safety and data quality of EEG recorded simultaneously with multi-band fMRI. PLoS One. 2021;16(7):e0238485. PMCID: PMC8253410.
- Chiarelli AM, Low KA, Maclin EL, Fletcher MA, Kong TS, Zimmerman B, Tan CH, Sutton BP, Fabiani M, Gratton G. The Optical Effective Attenuation Coefficient as an Informative Measure of Brain Health in Aging. Photonics. 2019 Sep;6(3):79. doi: 10.3390/photonics6030079. Epub 2019 Jul 12. PMID: 32377515
Professional Societies
- AIMBE Member since 2017
- IEEE, member since 2001.
- International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, member since 1999.
Recent Courses Taught
- BIOE 302 - Modeling Human Physiology
- BIOE 420 - Intro Bio Control Systems
- BIOE 572 - Biological Measurement II