Ph.D. Candidate
University of Toronto, Canada
My name is Samal Munidasa BSc and I am a Ph.D. candidate in Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto, working at the Hospital for Sick Children. I am interested in examining pulmonary ventilation and perfusion in pediatric cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease using free-breathing 1H MRI and hyperpolarized 129Xenon-MRI. I am currently developing an automated computational pipeline to reliably and efficiently evaluate ventilation defects in CF and hope to extend my other lung pathologies such as bronchopulmonary dysplasia, asthma, and chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD).