Asst. Prof. ÖZKAN DOĞANAY

Biography

Dr. Ozkan Doganay is a medical physicist working with radiologists, lung physiologists, physicists and engineers to develop functional imaging techniques for early detection and quantification of lung diseases.

Dr. Doganay pursued undergraduate studies in Physics at Ege University. Moving to Canada in 2007, he completed his MSc in the Department of Biomedical Physics at Ryerson University. He received his Ph.D. in the Department of Medical Biophysics from the University of Western Ontario in 2015, where he earned a national cancer-research-training award (CIHR in CaRTT).

He went on to work as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Oncology at the University of Oxford in 2015. His research focused on the development of specialized magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods for detection of functional (i.e. gas exchange) abnormalities in lungs associated with thoracic radiation treatment of cancer and lung ventilation disorders including Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Deceases (COPD) and asthma.

He is currently an Assistant Prof at Ege University in the Institute of Health Sciences.  He builds a new laboratory, named Functional Lung Imaging  laboratories at Ege University Hospital Respiratory Diseases Center (EGE-SAM) and develops novel hyperpolarized xenon MR imaging techniques.

His research interests:

Development of rapid and functional MR image acquisition techniques,

Design of RF coils for both proton and non-proton MRI,

Design of Xenon-129 polarizers,

Post-processing and modeling of MR images,

Quantification of lung gas exchange and ventilation including SPECT, CT, and Hyperpolarized MRI for diagnosis of lung diseases including COPD, Asthma, COVID-19.

His lab is Wellcome to graduate and undergraduate students and postdocs from various disciplines.

His current lab members:

Yenal GÖKPEK: He received a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Ege University Physics Department and currently is a Ph.D. student, at Ege University in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and is a TÜBİTAK 2232 fellow.

Research Areas: Hyperpolarized Xenon-129 Polarizer System Design and Manufacturing, Construction and Manufacturing, 2D-3D Design, Helmholtz Magnetic Field Coils, Composite Materials, Molecular Modeling and Simulation, RF Coils, MR Imaging.

Elif SOYA: She is a Ph.D. student, at Ege University in the Institute of Health Sciences, and is a TÜBİTAK 2232 fellow.

Research Areas: Research Ethics, Clinical trials, Medical Imaging, Image analysis techniques, Cell Culture, DNA-RNA-Protein-Mitochondrial DNA Isolation.

Olcay YİĞİT: He is a Ph.D. student at Ege University, in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Communication Department. He is working on design and development of RF coils

Research Areas: computer programs such as AWR, CST used for electrical and electronic circuit design

Nur EKENEL: She is a Chemical Engineer, and currently is a Master's student. She is a TÜBİTAK 2247-C fellow. 

Research areas: Development of computed tomography image processing algorithms for the diagnosis of COVID-19, Thermal optimization with thermal differential equations solutions, Rubidium filter design.

Özgün Boray YURDAKOŞ: He is a Ph.D. student at Ege University in the Department of  Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and is a TUBITAK 2232 fellow.

Research areas: Magnetic Resonance sequence design, Image Analysis, Multidimensional, Signal Processing, Segmentation Methods in Medical Images, Sensors, Nano Materials, Data analysis, PCB Circuit Design

Belkıs Aysu ÖZBEK: She is a first-year medical student at Ege University Faculty of Medicine and is a TÜBİTAK 2247-C fellow. 

Research areas: Segmentation of pulmonary airways, development of CT image processing algorithms for patients with COVID-19.

Ceren YÜRÜMEZ: She is a first-year medical student at Ege University Faculty of Medicine and is a TÜBİTAK 2247-C fellow.

Research areas: Segmentation of pulmonary veins, development of image processing algorithms for patients with COVID-19.