Affiliation: University of Iowa Health Care, Department of Radiology

Sean B. Fain, PhD is a Professor of the Radiology Division of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Imaging; Vice Chair for the Research Department of Radiology. Dr. Fain's lab develops and improves advanced quantitative lung imaging methods using hyperpolarized ¹²⁹Xe MRI, oxygen-enhanced ultra-short time to echo (OE-UTE) MRI and chest CT with the goal of early detection and monitoring of chronic lung diseases. He is a past co-chair of the Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Alliance (QIBA) subcommittee on CT lung density analysis, is a senior fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), and a distinguished investigator of the Academy of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research.