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.
2016 Sep 3
Wychowski T, Hussain A, Tivarus ME, Birbeck GL, Berg MJ, Potchen M. "Qualitative analysis of double inversion recovery MRI in drug-resistant epilepsy." Epilepsy research. 2016 Sep 3; 127:195-199. Epub 2016 Sep 03. |
2016 Jun
Lin F, Heffner KL, Ren P, Tivarus ME, Brasch J, Chen DG, Mapstone M, Porsteinsson AP, Tadin D. "Cognitive and Neural Effects of Vision-Based Speed-of-Processing Training in Older Adults with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2016 Jun; 64(6):1293-8. |
2016
Lin, F.; Heffner, K.; Ren, P.; Tivarus, M.; Brasch, J.; Chen, D.; Mapstone, M.; Porsteinsson, A.; Tadin D. "Cognitive and Neural Effects of Vision-Based Speed of Processing Training in Older Adults with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2016; . |
2016
Teghipco, A.; Hussain, A.; Tivarus, M. E. "Effect of disrupted functional connectivity in patients with brain tumors on resting state based language lateralization (in preparation)". NeuroImage. 2016; . |
2015 Sep
Onu M, Badea L, Roceanu A, Tivarus M, Bajenaru O. "Increased connectivity between sensorimotor and attentional areas in Parkinson's disease." Neuroradiology. 2015 Sep; 57(9):957-68. Epub 2015 Jul 15. |
