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Faculty, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Dr. Field attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1980-1985, receiving his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering. He completed the Medical Scientist Training (M.D./Ph.D.) Program in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1993. For his doctoral research, Dr. Field studied spatiotemporal analysis of brain evoked potentials under Prof. Daniel Graupe; he also studied microwave effects on action potentials in snail neurons under Profs. James Lin and William O'Neill. Dr. Field's postgraduate training included a medical internship at Northwestern University/Evanston Hospital (1993-94), residency in diagnostic radiology at Rush- Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center (1994-98), and fellowship in neuroradiology at Wake Forest University (Bowman Gray) in Winston-Salem, NC (1999-2001). He is currently Associate Professor (Tenure-Track) of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering. His research interest is quantitative magnetic resonance imaging of CNS white matter disease and repair, particularly using diffusion tensor, magnetization transfer, and T1/T2-relaxometric imaging techniques. A primary goal of his research is non-invasive tracking of myelin repair following glial cell transplantation.

Specialties

Radiology

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Hospital Affiliation(s)

University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics (primary)
Meriter Hospital (secondary)

Languages Spoken

English
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UW School of Medicine and Public Health

Department of Radiology

Professional Certifications and Education

Board Certification Radiology
Fellowship Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Residency Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago
Internship Evanston Hospital of Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Medical School University of Illinois, Chicago, 1993

Awards/Honors

Best Doctors® in America 2011

Procedures

Our doctors provide a wide range of services. The following list represents some, but not all, of the procedures offered by this physician.

Programs & Conditions

  • Brain Tumor Care
PubMed Articles
Huston JM Field AS . Clinical applications of diffusion tensor imaging. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am. 2013 May;21(2):279-98
[PubMed ID: 23642554]
Kundu B Penwarden A Wood JM Gallagher TA Andreoli MJ Voss J Meier T Nair VA Kuo JS Field AS Moritz C Meyerand ME Prabhakaran V . Association of functional magnetic resonance imaging indices with postoperative language outcomes in patients with primary brain tumors. Neurosurg Focus. 2013 Apr;34(4):E6
[PubMed ID: 23544412]
Samsonov A Alexander AL Mossahebi P Wu YC Duncan ID Field AS . Quantitative MR imaging of two-pool magnetization transfer model parameters in myelin mutant shaking pup. Neuroimage. 2012 Sep;62(3):1390-8
[PubMed ID: 22664569]
Kastman EK Willette AA Coe CL Bendlin BB Kosmatka KJ McLaren DG Xu G Canu E Field AS Alexander AL Voytko ML Beasley TM Colman RJ Weindruch RH Johnson SC . A calorie-restricted diet decreases brain iron accumulation and preserves motor performance in old rhesus monkeys. J Neurosci. 2012 Aug 22;32(34):11897-904
[PubMed ID: 23082321]
Hurley SA Yarnykh VL Johnson KM Field AS Alexander AL Samsonov AA . Simultaneous variable flip angle-actual flip angle imaging method for improved accuracy and precision of three-dimensional T1 and B1 measurements. Magn Reson Med. 2012 Jul;68(1):54-64
[PubMed ID: 22139819]
Willette AA Coe CL Colman RJ Bendlin BB Kastman EK Field AS Alexander AL Allison DB Weindruch RH Johnson SC . Calorie restriction reduces psychological stress reactivity and its association with brain volume and microstructure in aged rhesus monkeys. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2012 Jul;37(7):903-16
[PubMed ID: 22119476]
Willette AA Bendlin BB Colman RJ Kastman EK Field AS Alexander AL Sridharan A Allison DB Anderson R Voytko ML Kemnitz JW Weindruch RH Johnson SC . Calorie restriction reduces the influence of glucoregulatory dysfunction on regional brain volume in aged rhesus monkeys. Diabetes. 2012 May;61(5):1036-42
[PubMed ID: 22415875]
Willette AA Gallagher C Bendlin BB McLaren DG Kastman EK Canu E Kosmatka KJ Field AS Alexander AL Colman RJ Voytko ML Weindruch RH Coe CL Johnson SC . Homocysteine, neural atrophy, and the effect of caloric restriction in rhesus monkeys. Neurobiol Aging. 2012 Apr;33(4):670-80
[PubMed ID: 20691506]
Hosseinbor AP Chung MK Wu YC Fleming JO Field AS Alexander AL . Extracting quantitative measures from EAP: a small clinical study using BFOR. Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2012;15(Pt 2):280-7
[PubMed ID: 23286059]
Wu YC Field AS Duncan ID Samsonov AA Kondo Y Tudorascu D Alexander AL . High b-value and diffusion tensor imaging in a canine model of dysmyelination and brain maturation. Neuroimage. 2011 Oct 1;58(3):829-37
[PubMed ID: 21777681]
Wu YC Field AS Whalen PJ Alexander AL . Age- and gender-related changes in the normal human brain using hybrid diffusion imaging (HYDI). Neuroimage. 2011 Feb 1;54(3):1840-53
[PubMed ID: 20932911]
Alexander AL Hurley SA Samsonov AA Adluru N Hosseinbor AP Mossahebi P Tromp do PM Zakszewski E Field AS . Characterization of cerebral white matter properties using quantitative magnetic resonance imaging stains. Brain Connect. 2011;1(6):423-46
[PubMed ID: 22432902]
Kastman EK Willette AA Coe CL Bendlin BB Kosmatka KJ McLaren DG Xu G Canu E Field AS Alexander AL Voytko ML Beasley TM Colman RJ Weindruch RH Johnson SC . A calorie-restricted diet decreases brain iron accumulation and preserves motor performance in old rhesus monkeys. J Neurosci. 2010 Jun 9;30(23):7940-7
[PubMed ID: 20534842]
Wu YC Field AS Alexander AL . Computation of diffusion function measures in q-space using magnetic resonance hybrid diffusion imaging. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2008 Jun;27(6):858-65
[PubMed ID: 18541492]
Turk AS Grayev A Rowley HA Field AS Turski P Pulfer K Mukherjee R Haughton V . Variability of clinical CT perfusion measurements in patients with carotid stenosis. Neuroradiology. 2007 Nov;49(11):955-61
[PubMed ID: 17646976]
Alexander AL Lee JE Lazar M Field AS . Diffusion tensor imaging of the brain. Neurotherapeutics. 2007 Jul;4(3):316-29
[PubMed ID: 17599699]
McMillan KM Rogers BP Field AS Laird AR Fine JP Meyerand ME . Physiologic characterisation of glioblastoma multiforme using MRI-based hypoxia mapping, chemical shift imaging, perfusion and diffusion maps. J Clin Neurosci. 2006 Oct;13(8):811-7
[PubMed ID: 16997706]
Alexander AL Lee JE Wu YC Field AS . Comparison of diffusion tensor imaging measurements at 3.0 T versus 1.5 T with and without parallel imaging. Neuroimaging Clin N Am. 2006 May;16(2):299-309, xi
[PubMed ID: 16731368]
Wu Y Alexander AL Fleming JO Duncan ID Field AS . Myelin water fraction in human cervical spinal cord in vivo. J Comput Assist Tomogr. 2006 Mar-Apr;30(2):304-6
[PubMed ID: 16628052]
Samsonov AA Block WF Arunachalam A Field AS . Advances in locally constrained k-space-based parallel MRI. Magn Reson Med. 2006 Feb;55(2):431-8
[PubMed ID: 16369917]
Field AS Wu YC Alexander AL . Principal diffusion direction in peritumoral fiber tracts: Color map patterns and directional statistics. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2005 Dec;1064:193-201
[PubMed ID: 16394157]