Mary Preston McDougall is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University with a joint appointment in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She received her B.S. from Texas A&M University, M.S. from Johns Hopkins University, and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, all in Electrical Engineering. She directs the NMR RF lab with research focused on developing new hardware and methodologies for MR imaging and spectroscopy. 

Ph.D. Students



​Dr. Matthew Wilcox recently defended his dissertation entitled Multinuclear Array Coil Design for High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy and will proceed to a post-doc in Dr. Will Grissom's lab at Vanderbilt. 

Travis Carrell is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering with a research interest in RF coil development and technology to increase the accessibility of spectroscopy applications at low and clinical fields. His dissertation is entitled Non-1H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging at Standard Clinical Field Strengths. Travis is also interested in teaching and spent a semester in Germany as the instructor of record for two required departmental undergraduate courses. 

​Joseph Busher  is a second year Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering who is currently researching the topic of broadband decoupling of array coil elements in order to enable multi-tuned array coils. Joey has an overall interest in using multi-nuclear imaging and spectroscopy to characterize disease, with a particular interest in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. 

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​Edith Valle is a second year Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering with a research interest in developing hardware to detect multiple nuclei without having to switch coils or move the sample or animal. Her work currently is being applied to the Golden Retriever Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. 

M.S. Students

Sarah Latoulais is a second year M.S. student in Electrical Engineering interested in hardware to enable MRI. 

Undergraduate Researchers

Carla Bassil
​Jacob Degitz
Michael Guillen
Alberto Morales
Anna Theodossiou

Former Students

   Ph.D.
  • Romina Del Bosque, 2020, Radiofrequency Coil Design for Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Human Breast and Models of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
  • Wen-Yang Chiang, Streamlining the Design and Use of Array Coils for in vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Small Animals 
  • Edwin Eigenbrodt, 2016, Multi-channel, frequency-agnostic, portable receiver design for magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy
  • Joseph Rispoli, 2015, Design and Simulation of Coils for High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy
  • Katherine Ramirez Moody, 2014, Eight-channel Head Array and Control System for Parallel Transmit/Receive Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 3 Tesla
  • Chieh-Wei Chang, 2012, Application of Parallel Imaging to Murine Magnetic Resonance Imaging 
  • Melissa Collins, 2011, A Structurally Based Investigation of the Progression of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in Mouse Models
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   M.S.
  • Kurt Parizek, Integrating External Hardware on Existing Magnetic Resonance Systems for Commercially Unsupported Applications
  • Jeremy Sia, 2016, Development of a custom 1H/31P spectroscopy coil for canine models of muscular dystrophy
  • Samantha By, 2014, A 16-Channel Receive Array Insert for Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Breast at 7T
  • Robin Terry, 2014, Magnetic Resonance Imaging Pulse Sequences for Flourine-1
  • Sahil Bhatia, 2009, Geometrically Decoupled Phased Array Coils for Mouse Imaging
  • Arash Dabirzadeh, 2008, RF Coil Design for Multi-Frequency Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy

   M.E.
  • Jennifer Barker, 2009