Ronald L. Levin, ScD

SB, MIT, Cambridge, MA
SM., MIT, Cambridge, MA
ScD, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Dr. Levin's federal career began as a member of the Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program of NCRR where one of his major research areas of research was in the fields of bio-heat and mass transfer, specifically, hyperthermia. Together with Dr. Denis LeBihan of the Clinical Center and others, he developed a method of measuring temperature non-invasively during the hyperthermic treatment of tumors using magnetic resonance imaging. This work culminated in the development of a hyperthermia system that was able to deliver heat accurately, effectively, and with precise control to deep-seated tumors.

After working in the field of hyperthermia, he led the development of a multi-modality 3-D image processing system for what is now called the Laboratory of Diagnostic Radiology Research of the Clinical Center. Presently, several hundred NIH scientists and staff are using RAD&IS supplied and maintained file servers, research PACS, and image processing software packages such as MEDx, ANALYZE, PV-wave, IDL, etc. for the analysis and visualization of multi-modality medical images.

• JFR Prize to ACR/NEMA DICOM Working Group 16 for contributing to improvements in magnetic resonance imaging, 2002
• Recipient of NIH Director’s Award, 1994
• Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, 1994
• Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine for the paper "Hyperthermia System combined with a MRI Unit" published in Medical Physics., 17: 855-860, 1990 by J. Delannoy, D. LeBihan, D.I. Hoult, and R.L. Levin. (This award is for the best, non-dosimetry, paper to be published in Medical Physics during 1990), 1991
• Magna Cum Laude Citation from the Radiological Society of North America for the paper "Non-Invasive Temperature Mapping using Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Molecular Diffusion" by D. LeBihan, J. Delannoy, and R.L. Levin, 1990

Delannoy, J., LeBihan, D., Chen, C-N, Turner, R., Hoult, D.I., and Levin, R.L.: Non-invasive temperature mapping using magnetic resonance imaging of molecular diffusion: application to hyperthermia. SMRM Workshop on Future Directions in MRI of Diffusion and Microcirculation, pp. 269-273, 1990.

Levin, R.L., Douglas, MD.., Frank, J.A., and Gladish, R.: Multimodality Radiological Image Processing System. Visualization in Biomedical Computing 1992, ed. R.A. Robb, pp. 487-494, 1992.

Levin, R.L., and Douglas, MD: MRIPS/MEDx, A System for Medical Image Processing. Proceedings of the 1994 AIPR Meeting, ed. J. Costalinos, 1994.