Emine Ülkü Sarıtaş

Emine Ulku Saritas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and the National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM) at Bilkent University.

Dr. Saritas' research focuses on developing novel biomedical imaging techniques, with an emphasis on biological and diagnostic applications. She works on novel contrast methods and high-resolution imaging techniques. Specifically, she conducts research on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic particle imaging (MPI) systems.

Contact Information

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Office #306
Bilkent University, Bilkent 06800 Ankara, Turkey
Phone: +90 (312) 290 3387

National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM)
Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center
Bilkent University, Bilkent 06800 Ankara, Turkey
Phone: +90 (312) 290 3011

Email: saritas[at]ee.bilkent.edu.tr

Short Biography

See this link for full CV.

Dr. Saritas is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University. She is currently the Associate Provost of Bilkent University and the Associate Director of the National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM). Prior to joining Bilkent in Sept. 2013, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Deparment of Bioengineering at University of California, Berkeley from Sept. 2010 - Aug. 2013. She received her Ph.D. degree in Jan. 2010 and M.S. degree in June 2004 from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and her B.S. degree (valedictorian) in June 2002 from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University.

During her postdoctoral research at University of California, Berkeley, she worked with Prof. Steven M. Conolly in Berkeley Imaging Systems Laboratory (BISL) on Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) systems. During her Ph.D. research at Stanford University, she worked on high-resolution diffusion-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of targeted regions, under the supervision of Prof. Dwight G. Nishimura at the Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Lab (MRSRL).

Dr. Saritas is the recipient of the Lucent Technologies Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Siebel Stem Cell Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, the 2015 "Young Scientist Outstanding Achievement Award" (GEBIP) given by the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA), the 2016 "Young Scientist Award" (BAGEP) given by the Science Academy, Turkey (Bilim Akademisi), the 2017 "Scientist of the Year Award" given by Science Heroes Association (Bilim Kahramanlari Dernegi), the 2019 "Incentive Award" given by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), the 2020 "Research Incentive Award" given by METU Parlar Foundation, and the 2020 "Research Incentive Award" given by IEEE Turkey. She has also received the Distinguished Teaching Award of Bilkent University in 2018.

Dr. Saritas is currently serving as the chair of ISMRM Turkish Chapter, and as the chair of IEEE Turkey Engineering in Medicine and Biology. She is also serving as an Editorial Board Member for the International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IJMPI). She has previously served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, as an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports, and as the chair of IEEE Turkey Section Women in Engineering.

Research

Due to rising life expectancy, a greater portion of the population is bound to experience diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease. However, despite great advances in medical imaging, many of these critical diseases remain difficult to diagnose. For example, with over 7.6 million deaths per year, cancer is estimated to soon become the leading cause of death in the world. Despite a worldwide effort to improve diagnostic capabilities for cancer, many patients suffer from needless biopsies and emotional stress as a result of false negatives. Furthermore, cancer patients can waste precious time on a specific type of chemotherapy only to find out that they are unresponsive to that treatment. Clearly, new imaging methods are needed to overcome the critical diagnostic and prognostic challenges of existing modalities.

Dr. Saritas' research focuses on developing novel biomedical imaging techniques, with an emphasis on biological and diagnostic applications. She works on novel contrast methods and high-resolution imaging techniques. Specifically, she conducts research on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic particle imaging (MPI) systems. This includes developing new image acquisition and image reconstruction techniques, as well as clinical implementation and evaluation of these methods. She also investigates the human safety limits of magnetic fields used in medical imaging systems, with the end of goal developing fast imaging methods that abide by these safety considerations.

Dr. Saritas' research is funded by the following organizations:

• TUBITAK (through 1004, 1001, 3501, and 2232 programmes)
• European Commission (through an FP7 Marie Curie Career Integration Grant)
• Era.NET RUS Plus Programme
• Euronanomed III Programme
• Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) (through GEBIP award)
• Science Academy (Bilim Akademisi) (through BAGEP award)

	Postdoctoral Fellow
	Musa Tunc Arslan: Ph.D. (2022): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, Turkey M.Sc. (2015): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, Turkey B.Sc. (2013): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, Turkey Email: musa.arslan[at]bilkent.edu.tr
	Ph.D. Students
	Ali Alper Ozaslan: M.Sc. (2019): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, Turkey B.Sc. (2016): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, Turkey Email: alper.ozaslan[at]bilkent.edu.tr
	Abdallah Ghazi Faisal Zaid Alkinali: M.Sc. (2022): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, Turkey B.Sc. (2019): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, Turkey Email: abdallah.zaid[at]bilkent.edu.tr
	M.Sc. Students
	Asli Alpman: B.Sc. (2020): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, Turkey Email:
	Beril Alyuz: B.Sc. (2020): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, Turkey Email:
	Sefa Karaca: B.Sc. (2021): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Middle East Technical University, Turkey Email: sefa[at]ee.bilkent.edu.tr
	Ege Kor: B.Sc. (2022): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, Turkey Email:
	Atakan Topcu: B.Sc. (2022): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, Turkey Email:
	Alumni and Past Members
	Mehdi Shafiei Aporvari, Ph.D.: Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2021): UNAM & UMRAM, Bilkent University (co-advised with Prof. Giovanni Volpe) Ph.D. (2016): Dept. of Physics, University of Isfahan, Iran Now a postdoctoral fellow at University of San Diego, USA.
	Abdullah Omer Arol: M.Sc. (2020): Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University. Now works at Scoobe3D, Augsburg, Germany.
	Elif Aygun: M.Sc. (2022): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University. Now a graduate student at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA.
	Cagla Deniz Bahadir: M.Sc., Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University. Now a graduate student at Cornell University, USA.
	Bahadir Alp Barlas: M.Sc. (2022): Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University. Now a graduate student at University of Southern California (USC), USA.
	Ecem Bozkurt: M.Sc. (2018): Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University. Now a graduate student at University of Southern California (USC), USA.
	Ahmet Rahmetullah Cagil: M.Sc.(2020), Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University. Now works at Roketsan, Turkey.
	Omer Burak Demirel: M.Sc.(2017), Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University. Now a graduate student at University of Minnesota, USA.
	Serhat Ilbey: M.Sc. (2018): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University. Now a graduate student at University of Freiburg, Germany.
	Sevgi Gokce Kafali: M.Sc. (2018): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University. Now a graduate student at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA.
	Toygan Kilic: M.Sc. (2019): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, Turkey Now a graduate student at University of Minnesota, USA.
	Semih Kurt: M.Sc. (2020): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, Turkey Now a graduate student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
	Yavuz Muslu: M.Sc. (2018): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University. Now a graduate student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
	Mustafa Utkur: Ph.D. (2021): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, Turkey M.Sc. (2017): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, Turkey B.Sc. (2014): Dept. of Mechanical Eng., Bilkent University, Turkey Now a research fellow at Harvard Medical School, USA.
	Kalaivani Thangavel, Ph.D.: Postdoctoral Fellow (2014-2017), UMRAM, Bilkent University. Ph.D. (2010): Dept. of Physics, University of Milan, Italy M.Phil. (2005): Dept. of Physics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India M.Sc.(2003): Dept. of Physics, PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, India B.Sc (2001): Dept. of Physics, NGM College, Pollachi, India
	Damla Sarica: M.Sc.(2017): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University. Now works at Roketsan, Turkey.
	Ecrin Yagiz: M.Sc. (2020): Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, Turkey Now a graduate student at University of Southern California (USC), USA.
	Past Undergraduate Researchers
	Ahmet Alacaoglu: Undergraduate (Class of 2016), Bilkent EEE. Now a graduate student at EPFL, Switzerland.
	Ahmet Cagri Aydinkarahaliloglu: Undergraduate (Class of 2016), Bilkent EEE. Now a graduate student at University of Notre Dame, USA.
	Baturalp Buyukates: Undergraduate (Class of 2016), Bilkent EEE. Now a graduate student at University of Maryland, USA.
	Orhun Caner Eren: Undergraduate (Class of 2018), Bilkent EEE. Now a graduate student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
	Gamze Onuker: Undergraduate (Class of 2015), Bilkent EEE. Now works at Meteksan Savunma, Turkey.
	Mavi Nunn Polatoglu: Undergraduate (Class of 2017), Bilkent EEE. Now a graduate student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

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Book Chapters

• EU Saritas, SJ Holdswoth, R Bammer. “Susceptibility Artifacts”. Quantitative Techniques for MRI of the Human Spinal Cord. Editors: Cohen-Adad and Wheeler-Kingshott, Elsevier, March 2014, ISBN:9780123969736. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-396973-6.00007-1
• P Chandrasekharan, ZW Tay, XY Zhou, EY Yu, BKL Fung, C Colson, BD Fellows, Y Lu, Q Huynh, C Saayujya, P Keselman, D Hensley, K Lu, R Orendorff, J Konkle, EU Saritas, B Zheng, P Goodwill, S Conolly. “Magnetic Particle Imaging for Vascular, Cellular and Molecular Imaging”. Molecular Imaging Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition, Academic Press, August 2021, ISBN:9780128163863. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-816386-3.00015-6

Journal Publications

• BA Barlas, CD Bahadir, SG Kafali, U Yilmaz, EU Saritas. "Sheared 2D RF Excitation for Off-resonance Robustness and Fat Suppression in Reduced Field-of-View Imaging", Magn Reson Med, 2022. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29416
• MT Arslan, AA Ozaslan, S Kurt, Y Muslu, EU Saritas. "Rapid TAURUS for Relaxation-Based Color Magnetic Particle Imaging", IEEE Trans Med Imag, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2022.3195694
• A Gungor, B Askin, DA Soydan, EU Saritas, CB Top, T Cukur. ``TranSMS: Transformers for Super-Resolution Calibration in Magnetic Particle Imaging", IEEE Trans Med Imag, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2022.3189693
• F Wegner, K Ludtke-Buzug, Sjef Cremers, T Friedrich, MM Sieren, J Haegele, MA Koch, EU Saritas, P Borm, TM Buzug, J Barkhausen, M Ahlborg. "Bimodal Interventional Instrument Markers for Magnetic Particle Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Imaging – A Proof of Concept Study", Nanomaterials, 12(10):1758, 2022. DOI: 10.3390/nano12101758
• M Yavuz, M Utkur, E Sahin Kehribar, E Yagiz, EU Saritas, UOS Seker. "Engineered Bacteria with Genetic Circuits Accumulating Nanomagnets as MRI Contrast Agents", Small, 18(26): 2200537, 2022. DOI: 10.1002/smll.202200537
• E Ilicak, EU Saritas, T Cukur. "Automated Parameter Selection for Accelerated MRI Reconstruction via Low-Rank Modeling of Local k-Space Neighborhoods", Z Med Phys, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.zemedi.2022.02.002
• M Utkur, EU Saritas. "Simultaneous Temperature and Viscosity Estimation Capability via Magnetic Nanoparticle Relaxation", Med Phys, 49(4):2590-2601, 2022. DOI: 10.1002/mp.15509
• OC Eren, BA Barlas, EU Saritas. "2D RF Pulse Design for Optimized Reduced Field-of-view Imaging at 1.5T and 3T", Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 85, 210-216, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2021.10.021
• E Yagiz, AR Cagil, EU Saritas. "Non-ideal Selection Field Induced Artifacts in X-Space MPI", International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging, 6(2):2006001, 2020. DOI: 10.18416/IJMPI.2020.2006001
• M Shafiei Aporvari, M Utkur, EU Saritas, G Volpe, J Stenhammar. "Anisotropic Dynamics of a Self-Assembled Colloidal Chain in an Active Bath", Soft Matter, 16:5609-5614, 2020. DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00318B
• S Kurt, Y Muslu, EU Saritas. "Partial FOV Center Imaging (PCI): A Robust X-Space Image Reconstruction for Magnetic Particle Imaging", IEEE Trans Med Imag, 30(11):3441-3450, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2020.2995410
• OB Demirel, T Kilic , T Cukur, EU Saritas. "Anatomical Measurements Correlate with Individual Magnetostimulation Thresholds for kHz‐range Homogeneous Magnetic Fields", Med Phys, 47(4):1836-1844, 2020. DOI: 10.1002/mp.14032
• E Kopanoglu, A Gungor, T Kilic, EU Saritas, KK Oguz, T Cukur, HE Guven. "Simultaneous use of Individual and Joint Regularization Terms in Compressive Sensing: Joint Reconstruction of Multi-Channel Multi-Contrast MRI Acquisitions", NMR Biomed, 33(4):e4247, 2020. DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4247
• M Utkur, Y Muslu, EU Saritas. "Relaxation-Based Color Magnetic Particle Imaging for Viscosity Mapping". Appl Phys Let, 115(15):15240, 2019. DOI: 10.1063/1.5110475
• AA Ozaslan, A Alacaoglu, OB Demirel, T Cukur, EU Saritas. "Fully Automated Gridding Reconstruction for Non-Cartesian X-Space Magnetic Particle Imaging". Phys Med Biol, 64(16):165018, 2019. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab3525
• S Ilbey, CB Top, A Gungor, T Cukur, EU Saritas*, HE Guven* (*co-senior authors). "Fast System Calibration with Coded Calibration Scenes for Magnetic Particle Imaging". IEEE Trans Med Imag, 38(8):2070-2080, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2019.2896289
• LK Senel, T Kilic, A Gungor, E Kopanoglu, HE Guven, EU Saritas, A Koc, T Cukur. “Statistically Segregated k-Space Sampling for Accelerating Multiple-Acquisition MRI”, IEEE Trans Med Imag, 38(7):1701-1714, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2019.2892378
• M Shahdloo, E Ilicak, M Tofighi, EU Saritas, AE Cetin, T Cukur. “Projection onto Epigraph Sets for Rapid Self-Tuning Compressed Sensing MRI”, IEEE Trans Med Imag, 38(7):1677-1689, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2018.2885599
• Y Muslu, M Utkur, OB Demirel, EU Saritas. “Calibration-Free Relaxation-Based Multi-Color Magnetic Particle Imaging”, IEEE Trans Med Imag, 37(8):1920-1931, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2018.2818261
• SG Kafali, T Cukur, EU Saritas. “Phase-Correcting Non-Local Means Filtering for Diffusion-Weighted Imaging of the Spinal Cord”, Magn Reson Med, 80(3):1020-1035, 2018. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.27105
• Y Yar, R Khodadust, Y Akkoc, M Utkur, EU Saritas, D Gozuacik, HY Acar. “Development of Tailored SPION-PNIPAM Nanoparticles by ATRP for Dually Responsive Doxorubicin Delivery and MR Imaging”, J Mater Chem B, 6:289-300, 2018. DOI: 10.1039/C7TB00646B
• A Alipour, Z Soran-Erdem, M Utkur, VK Shamra, O Algin, EU Saritas, HV Demir. “A New Class of Cubic SPIONs as Dual-mode T1 and T2 Contrast Agent for MRI”, Magn Reson Imaging, 49:16-24, 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2017.09.013
• B Zheng, E Yu, R Orendorff, K Lu, JJ Konkle, ZW Tay, D Hensley, XY Zhou, P Chandrasekharan, EU Saritas, PW Goodwill, JD Hazle, SM Conolly. “Seeing SPIOs Directly In Vivo with Magnetic Particle Imaging”, Mol Imaging Biol,19(3):385-390, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s11307-017-1081-y
• S Ilbey, CB Top, A Gungor, T Cukur, EU Saritas, HE Guven. "Comparison of System-Matrix-Based and Projection-Based Reconstructions for Field Free Line Magnetic Particle Imaging", International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging, 3(1):1703022, 2017. DOI: 10.18416/ijmpi.2017.1703022
• OB Demirel, EU Saritas. "Effects of Duty Cycle on Magnetostimulation Thresholds in MPI", International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging, 3(1):1703010, 2017. DOI: 10.18416/ijmpi.2017.1703010
• M Utkur, Y Muslu, EU Saritas. “Relaxation-Based Viscosity Mapping for Magnetic Particle Imaging”. Phys Med Biol, 62(9):3422-3439, 2017. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/62/9/3422
• E Bozkurt, EU Saritas. “Signal-to-noise ratio optimized image reconstruction technique for magnetic particle imaging”. J Fac Eng Archit Gaz, 32(3):999-1013, 2017. DOI: 10.17341/gazimmfd.337864
• K Thangavel, EU Saritas. “Aqueous paramagnetic solutions for MRI phantoms at 3T: A detailed study on relaxivities”. Turk J Elec Eng & Comp Sci, 25(3):2108-2121, 2017. DOI: 10.3906/elk-1602-123
• S Banerjee, DG Nishimura, A Shankaranarayanan, EU Saritas. “Reduced Field-of-View DWI with Robust Fat Suppression and Unrestricted Slice Coverage Using Tilted 2D RF Excitation”. Magn Reson Med, 76(6):1668-1676, 2016. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26405
• E Ilicak, S Cetin, E Bulut, KK Oguz, EU Saritas, G Unal and T Cukur. “Targeted Vessel Reconstruction in Non-contrast-enhanced Steady-state Free Precession Angiography”. NMR Biomed, 29(5):532-544, 2016. DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3497
• LR Croft, PW Goodwill, JJ Konkle, H Arami, DA Price, AX Li, EU Saritas and SM Conolly. “Low Drive Field Amplitude for Improved Image Resolution in Magnetic Particle Imaging”. Med Phys, 43(1):424-435, 2016. DOI: 10.1118/1.4938097
• O Yilmaz, EU Saritas, T Cukur. “Enhanced Phase-Sensitive SSFP Reconstruction for Fat-Water Separation in Phased-Array Acquisitions”. J Magn Reson Imaging, 44(1):148-157, 2016. DOI: 10.1002/jmri.25138
• B Zheng, T Vazin, PW Goodwill, A Conway, A Verma, EU Saritas, D Schaffer and SM Conolly. “Magnetic Particle Imaging tracks the long-term fate of in vivo neural cell implants with high image contrast”. Sci Rep, 5:14055, 2015. DOI: 10.1038/srep14055
• EU Saritas, PW Goodwill and SM Conolly. “Effects of Pulse Duration on Magnetostimulation Thresholds”. Med Phys, 42(6):3005-3012, 2015. DOI: 10.1118/1.4921209
• RM Ferguson, AP Khandhar, SJ Kemp, H Arami, EU Saritas, LR Croft, J Konkle, PW Goodwill, A Halkola, J Rahmer, J Borgert, SM Conolly, KM Krishnan. “Magnetic Particle Imaging with Tailored Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Tracers”. IEEE Trans Med Imag, 34(5):1077-1084, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2014.2375065
• N Korn, J Kurhanewicz, S Banerjee, O Starobinets, E Saritas, S Noworolski. “Reduced-FOV excitation decreases susceptibility artifact in diffusion-weighted MRI with endorectal coil for cancer detection”. Magn Reson Imaging, 33(1):56-62, 2015. DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2014.08.040
• EU Saritas, D Lee, T Cukur, A Shankaranarayanan, DG Nishimura. “Hadamard Slice Encoding for Reduced-FOV Diffusion-Weighted Imaging”. Magn Reson Med, 72(5):1277-1290, 2014. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25044
• JJ Konkle, PW Goodwill, EU Saritas, B Zheng, K Lu, SM Conolly. “Twenty-Fold Acceleration of 3D Projection Reconstruction MPI”. Biomed Tech (Berl), 13:1-12, 2013. DOI: 10.1515/bmt-2012-0062
• EU Saritas, PW Goodwill, GZ Zhang, SM Conolly. “Magnetostimulation Limits in Magnetic Particle Imaging”. IEEE Trans Med Imag, 32(9):1600-1610, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2260764
• K Lu, PW Goodwill, EU Saritas, B Zheng ve SM Conolly. “Linearity and Shift-Invariance for Quantitative X-Space Magnetic Particle Imaging”. IEEE Trans Med Imag, 32(9):1565-1575, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2257177
• LJ Wilmes, RL McLaughlin, DC Newitt, L Singer, SP Sinha, E Proctor, DJ Wisner, EU Saritas, J Kornak, A Shankaranarayanan, S Banerjee, EF Jones, BN Joe, NM Hylton. “High- Resolution Diffusion-Weighted Imaging for Monitoring Breast Cancer Treatment Response”. Academic Radiology, 20(5):581-589, 2013. DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2013.01.009
• DC Karampinos, G Melkus, TM Shepherd, S Banerjee, EU Saritas, A Shankaranarayanan, CP Hess, TM Link, WP Dillon, S Majumdar. “Diffusion Tensor Imaging and T2 Relaxometry of Bilateral Lumbar Nerve Roots: Feasibility of In-plane Imaging”. NMR Biomed, 26(6):630-637, 2013. DOI: 10.1002/nbm.2902
• EU Saritas, PW Goodwill, LR Croft, JJ Konkle, K Lu, B Zheng, SM Conolly. “Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) for NMR and MRI Researchers”. J Magn Reson, 229:116-126, 2013. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2012.11.029
• PW Goodwill*, EU Saritas* (*co-first authors), LR Croft, T Kim, KM Krishnan, DV Schaffer, SM Conolly. “X-Space MPI: Magnetic Nanoparticles for Safe Medical Imaging”. Advanced Materials, 24(28):3870-3877, 2012. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201200221
• PW Goodwill, JJ Konkle, B Zheng, EU Saritas, SM Conolly. “Projection X-Space Magnetic Particle Imaging”. IEEE Trans Med Imag, 31(5):1076-1085, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2185247
• JB Andre, E Saritas, G Zaharchuk, J Rosenberg, ST Komakula, S Banerjee, A Shankaranarayanan, DG Nishimura, NJ Fischbein. “Clinical Evaluation of Reduced Field-of-View (rFOV) Diffusion-Weighted Imaging of the Cervical and Thoracic Spine and Spinal Cord”. Am J Neurorad (AJNR), 33(10):1860-1866, 2012. DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A3134
• L Singer, LJ Wilmes, EU Saritas, A Shankaranarayanan, E Proctor, DJ Wisner, B Chang, BN Joe, DG Nishimura, NM Hylton. “High-resolution Diffusion-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Locally Advanced Breast Cancer.” Academic Radiology, 19(5):526-534, 2012. DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2011.11.003
• T Cukur, M Lustig, EU Saritas, DG Nishimura. “Signal Compensation and Compressed Sensing for Magnetization-Prepared MR Angiography.” IEEE Trans Med Imag, 30(5):1017-1027, 2011. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2116123
• EU Saritas, JH Lee, DG Nishimura. “SNR Dependence of Optimal Parameters for Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Measurements”. IEEE Trans Med Imag, 30(2):424-437, 2011. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2084583
• G Zaharchuk, EU Saritas, JB Andre, CT Chin, J Rosenberg, TJ Brosnan, A Shankaranarayanan, DG Nishimura, NJ Fischbein. “Reduced Field-of-View Diffusion Imaging of the Human Spinal Cord: Comparison with Conventional Single-shot Echo-Planar Imaging”. Am J Neurorad (AJNR), 32(5):813-820, 2011. DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2418
• EU Saritas, CH Cunningham, JH Lee, ET Han, DG Nishimura. “DWI of the Spinal Cord with Reduced FOV Single-Shot EPI”. Magn Reson Med, 60(2):468-473, 2008. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21640
• JH Lee, SO Dumoulin, EU Saritas, GH Glover, BA Wandell, DG Nishimura, JM Pauly. “Full-Brain Coverage and High-Resolution Imaging Capabilities of Passband b-SSFP fMRI at 3T”. Magn Reson Med, 59(5):1099-1110, 2008. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21576

Teaching

Dr. Saritas is the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award of Bilkent University, awarded in June 2018. The classes that she teaches are as follows:

• EEE-475 / EEE-575 Medical Image Reconstruction and Processing: Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2022.
• EEE-473 / EEE-573 Medical Imaging: Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022.
• EEE-211 Analog Electronics: Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022.
• EEE-202 Circuit Theory: Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2023.
• MATH-242 Engineering Mathematics II: Spring 2014.