Biography

Dr. Jensen is a professor in the Department of Neuroscience (primary appointment) and in the Department of Radiology (secondary appointment) at MUSC. He also serves as the director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging. Before moving to MUSC in 2011, Dr. Jensen was a faculty member in the Department of Radiology of the New York University School of Medicine from 1993-2011. Dr. Jensen holds a B.S. degree in physics from Caltech and a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. He did postdoctoral work at UC Santa Barbara, University of Copenhagen, and University of Maryland.

The Jensen Lab develops novel MRI methods and applies them to the study of neuropathologies. In particular, diffusion MRI (dMRI) is used in a variety of ways to assess and quantify microstructural properties of brain. This enables microscale information for both white and gray matter to be obtained noninvasively and efficiently throughout the entire brain. The Jensen Lab closely collaborates with several other research groups in using dMRI to investigate several neurological and psychiatric diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, and addiction.