Medical Physics Graduate Program Faculty

Atiyah Yahya, PhD, MCCPM

Assistant Professor, Divsion of Medical Physics,
Department of Oncology, University of Alberta

Medical Physicist, Dept. of Medical Physics CCI

B.Sc. Engineering Physics, University of Alberta, 1999
Ph.D. Medical Sciences- Biomedical Eng., and Electrical and Computer Eng., University of Alberta, 2006

Member: Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine

Current Research Interests

My general area of research is in the field of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). I design in vivo techniques for the measurement of metabolites relevant to cancer. My work is conducted with the 3 T and 9.4 T MRI scanners housed at the Cross Cancer Institute. Recently, I have been working on improving proton MRS quantification of lipids. In addition to technical development, I am interested in applying MRS to monitor changes in metabolite levels in response to treatment.

Selected Publications

A. Troitskaia, B.G. Fallone, A. Yahya,
"Long Echo Time Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for Estimating Relative Measures of Lipid Unsaturation at 3 T.."
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 37:944-949 (2013).

A. Yahya, A.G. Tessier, B.G. Fallone,
"Effect of J-Coupling on Lipid Composition Determination with Localized Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy at 9.4 T.,"
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 34:1388-1396 (2011).

A. Yahya, B.G. Fallone,
"T₂ Determination of the J-Coupled Methyl Protons of Lipids: In-Vivo Illustration with Tibial Bone Marrow at 3 T.,"
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 31: 1514-1521 (2010).

M.P. Larocque, A Syme, A Yahya, K Wachowicz, J Allalunis-Turner and BG Fallone,
"Monitoring T2 and ADC at 9.4 T following fractionated external beam radiation therapy in a mouse model,"
Phys Med Biol, 55(5), pp. 1381-1391 (2010).

M.P. Larocque, A. Syme, A.Yahya, K. Wachowicz, J. Allalunis-Turner, B.G. Fallone,
"Temporal and dose dependence of T2 and ADC at 9.4 T in a mouse model following single fraction radiation therapy,"
Medical Physics, 36(7), pp. 2948-2954 (2009).

A. Yahya,
"Metabolite Detection by Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy using PRESS,"
Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 55: 183-198 (2009).

A. Yahya, B.G. Fallone,
"Detection of Glutamate and Glutamine (Glx) by Turbo Spectroscopic Imaging."
Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 196: 170-177 (2009).

A. Yahya, B. Mädler, B.G. Fallone,
"Exploiting the Chemical Shift Displacement Effect in the Detection of Glutamate and Glutamine (Glx) with PRESS."
Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 191: 120-127 (2008).

A. Yahya, B.G. Fallone,
"Incorporating Homonuclear Polarization Transfer into PRESS for Proton Spectral Editing: Illustration with Lactate and Glutathione."
Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 188: 111-121 (2007).

A. Yahya, P.S. Allen,
"The Effect of Strong Homonuclear Proton Coupling on Localized 13C Detection Using PRESS."
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 54: 1340-1350 (2005) .

N. De Zanche, A. Yahya, F.E. Vermeulen, P.S. Allen,
"An Analytical Approach to Non-circular Section Birdcage Coil Design: Verification with a Cassinian. Oval Coil."
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 53: 201-211 (2005).

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