Bastiaan Driehuys

Driehuys is a Professor of Radiology at Duke University and Chief Technology Officer for Polarean. His research focuses on developing hyperpolarized noble gases – a new class of signal agent for MRI. He and his team developed the underlying technology of 129Xe hyperpolarization, as well as novel MR image acquisition, reconstruction and analysis strategies and how to apply them to problems in pulmonary medicine. His team is particularly focused on exploiting the unique properties of hyperpolarized 129Xe gas to image pulmonary ventilation and gas exchange in a single breath.

Driehuys holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Franklin & Marshall College and a PhD. in atomic physics from Princeton University.