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

Donald Bowen is a second year Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering with a general research interest in RF coil development and technology to increase the accessibility of NMR-based and other imaging techniques, including ultrasound.

​Joseph Busher is a third year Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering who is interested in various methodologies 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 neurological applications, including Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. 


Jacob Degitz is a second year Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering with a general research interest in RF coil development targeted towards susceptibility imaging to study Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in tissue samples and in vivo at various field strengths.

​​Edith Valle is a third year Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering with a research interest in developing hardware to detect multiple nuclei without having to move coils or the sample/animal. She has a particular interest in susceptibility imaging and developing low-loss switching networks with novel materials. Her work currently is being applied to the Golden Retriever Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. ​

M.S. Students

Undergraduate Researchers

Vy Chu
Lizhen Gong
Jeanpaul Posso - automated field measurement system
Madison White - visible light tomography

Former Students

   Ph.D.
  • Travis Carrell, 2022, Hardware and Software Approaches to Increasing Accessibility of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy
  • Matthew Wilcox, 2020, Multinuclear Array Coil Design for High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy ​
  • 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