Professional Bio
Dr. Tivarus received her BS (1997) and MS (1998) in Physics from the University of Bucharest, Romania. She received her PhD in Biophysics in 2006 from the Ohio State University, where she was trained in MRI and brain imaging. She then joined the Department of Imaging Sciences at University of Rochester as a postdoctoral fellow/instructor in Radiology and was promoted to Research Assistant Professor in 2008. She established the clinical Functional MRI (fMRI) program at the Medical Center, with patient services highly regarded by several departments including Neurology and Neurosurgery. She is in charge of optimization and supervision of clinical MR Spectroscopy protocols (brain), MRI QA/QC testing, ACR (American College of Radiology) accreditation and acceptance testing and provides physics support for the two MRI systems at University Imaging at Science Park and University Imaging Penfield.
She also has an appointment with the Rochester Center for Brain Imaging, where she provides assistance to investigators as well as training and supervision of graduate students doing neuroimaging research. Dr. Tivarus gives neuroimaging lectures to Radiology medical residents and co-teaches an MRI class for graduate students enrolled in Cognitive Science, Physics and Neuroscience programs.
2013 Oct
Karuza EA, Newport EL, Aslin RN, Starling SJ, Tivarus ME, Bavelier D. "The neural correlates of statistical learning in a word segmentation task: An fMRI study." Brain and language. 2013 Oct; 127(1):46-54. Epub 2013 Jan 11. |
2013 Feb
Zhu T, Zhong J, Hu R, Tivarus M, Ekholm S, Harezlak J, Ombao H, Navia B, Cohen R, Schifitto G. "Patterns of white matter injury in HIV infection after partial immune reconstitution: a DTI tract-based spatial statistics study." Journal of neurovirology.. 2013 Feb; 19(1):10-23. Epub 2012 Nov 21. |
2012 Oct
Tivarus ME, Starling SJ, Newport EL, Langfitt JT. "Homotopic language reorganization in the right hemisphere after early left hemisphere injury." Brain and language. 2012 Oct; 123(1):1-10. Epub 2012 Jul 24. |
2011 Jan 15
Binder JR, Gross WL, Allendorfer JB, Bonilha L, Chapin J, Edwards JC, Grabowski TJ, Langfitt JT, Loring DW, Lowe MJ, Koenig K, Morgan PS, Ojemann JG, Rorden C, Szaflarski JP, Tivarus ME, Weaver KE. "Mapping anterior temporal lobe language areas with fMRI: a multicenter normative study." NeuroImage. 2011 Jan 15; 54(2):1465-75. Epub 2010 Sep 25. |
2010
Kim N, Goel PK, Tivarus ME, Hillier A, Beversdorf DQ. "Independent component analysis of the effect of L-dopa on fMRI of language processing." PloS one. 2010 5(8):e11933. Epub 2010 Aug 17. |
