Leon Arends
Brief Description
Leon Arends is currently employed as a PhD canidate at the Radiology department of the University Medical Center Utrecht, the High Precision Imaging Group and the Imaging Science Insitute.
Background
Leon Arends was born in the Netherlands (August 16, 1999). He recevived his bachelor's degree in Physics and Chemistry from the University of Utrecht and his Master's degree in Applied Physics from the TU Delft (where he wrote his theses at SteeleLab on Quantum Kerr Oscillators). Currently, his research focus is on using plug-and-play gradient inserts for high performance diffusion MRI on brain and breast. Further interests are fitting diffusion MRI signal models in combination with neural networks.
Fellowship and Awards
- Trainee award best poster presentation ISMMR Diffusion MRI workshop Kyoto
Recommended Publications
- Tom Hendriks, Gerrit Arends, Edwin Versteeg, Anna Vilanova, Maxime Chamberland, Chantal M.W. Tax (2025). Implicit neural representations for accurate estimation of the standard model of white matter. Arxiv [preprint]. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15762
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G. C. Arends, E. Versteeg, A. De Luca, F. Marc, T. H. M. Roos, D. W. J. Klomp, M. Froeling, J. C. W. Siero, C. M. W. Tax. Feasibility of strong diffusion encoding and fast readout using
a plug-and-play head gradient insert at 7 T. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 94(5), 2304–2316 (2025).
https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.30613
Keywords
MRI Physics, diffusion MRI, gradient inserts