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Theodore P. Trouard, PhD

Professor Emeritus
Professor, BIO5 Institute
Professor, Biomedical Engineering (retired)

PO Box 210020
Building: TW Keating Bioresearch Bldg. (#240)
Room #: 131A

(520) 626-2177
trouard@arizona.edu

Selected Publications

Ahmad I. Lope-Piedrafita S. Bi X. Hicks C. Yao Y. Yu C. Chaitkin E. Howison CM. Weberg L. Trouard TP. Erickson RP. Allopregnanolone treatment, both as a single injection or repetitively, delays demyelination and enhances survival of Niemann-Pick C mice. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 82(6):811-21, 2005.
 
Trouard TP. Heidenreich RA. Seeger JF. Erickson RP. Diffusion tensor imaging in Niemann-Pick Type C disease. Pediatric Neurology. 33(5):325-30, 2005.
 
Altbach MI. Bilgin A. Li Z. Clarkson EW. Trouard TP. Gmitro AF. Processing of radial fast spin-echo data for obtaining T2 estimates from a single k-space data set. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 54(3):549-59, 2005.
 
Galons JP. Lope-Piedrafita S. Divijak JL. Corum C. Gillies RJ. Trouard TP. Uncovering of intracellular water in cultured cells. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 54(1):79-86, 2005.
 
Gmitro AF. Kono M. Theilmann RJ. Altbach MI. Li Z. Trouard TP. Radial GRASE: implementation and applications. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 53(6):1363-71, 2005.
 

NIH High School Student Research Program

Ajpaal R. Kalyanmashi, Palo Verde Magnet High School, 2001
Daniel Montilla, Amphitheater High School, 2003
Kimthy Vu, Amphitheater High School, 2003
Tam Pham, Catalina High School, 2010

Degrees

  • California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA, 1985 (B.S., Physics)
  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1991 (Ph.D., Biophysics)
  • University of Ume√•, Ume√•, Sweden, 1992-1993 (Postdoctoral Fellowship)
  • University of Arizona, 1994-1995 (Postdoctoral Fellowship)

Awards

  • Deans scholarship, University of Virginia 1986
  • Flinn Post-doctoral Scientist, University of Arizona 1995-1996

Research Interests

Dr. Trouard is primarily interested in the use of non-invasive imaging tools in establishing, delivering, and monitoring effective treatments. Among his project goals:

To develop a MRI method for high-resolution diffusion-weighted imaging of the human brain.
To develop a noninvasive technique for monitoring the chemotherapeutic response in human xenographts.
To evaluate diffusion-weighted MRI as an early predictor of response to chemotherapy in metastatic breast cancer.
To investigate and model strategies that a speaker might employ for controlling acoustic eignemodes of the vocal tract during dynamic speech.
To develop a non-invasive and quantitative method to monitor the progression of NP-C disease and its response to successful therapy
To develop a 3-dimensional method for high-resolution diffusion-weighted radial MRI of the human brain.