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Piotr Kozlowski

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Brain and Nerves Cancers
Contact Info
piotr.kozlowski@ubc.ca
604-827-3974

Biography

Dr. Piotr Kozlowski is a professor in the Departments of Radiology and Urologic Sciences at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the director of the UBC MRI Research Centre. He is also a principal investigator at ICORD, an associate member of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UBC and a research scientist at the Vancouver Prostate Centre. Dr. Kozlowski obtained his Master of Science at the Jagiellonian University and his PhD at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Poland.

Dr. Kozlowski’s research uses MRI-based techniques to study spinal cord injury. He has worked on the development of a non-invasive technique for monitoring changes in myelin in the spinal cord following injury. Myelin in the brain and spinal cord helps neurons function more efficiently by wrapping around them, but it also inhibits healing when the neurons are injured. Studying how myelin changes after an injury may shed light on how to improve healing. Dr. Kozlowski also applies MRI to his prostate cancer research. He pioneered a concept of multi-parametric MRI for prostate cancer diagnosis, which became a clinical standard for prostate cancer detection. More recently, he developed a new MRI technique, called Luminal Water Imaging (LWI), which showed even better performance than the current standard of mp-MRI with PIRADS 2.1. He is currently working on a clinical implementation of the LWI technique combined with a novel reporting standard. His research has been funded by CIHR, NSERC and Mitacs.

News and Awards

Innovation and Translational Research Awards 2022 Recipients

May 17, 2022

Publications

  • Radiology -

    Luminal Water Imaging: A New MR Imaging T2 Mapping Technique for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis.

    Sabouri S, Chang SD, Savdie R, Zhang J, Jones EC, Goldenberg SL, Black PC, Kozlowski P
  • NeuroImage -

    Validating myelin water imaging with transmission electron microscopy in a rat spinal cord injury model.

    Chen HS, Holmes N, Liu J, Tetzlaff W, Kozlowski P
  • NMR in biomedicine -

    Assessment of the need for DCE MRI in the detection of dominant lesions in the whole gland: Correlation between histology and MRI of prostate cancer.

    Kozlowski P, Chang SD, Jones EC, Goldenberg SL
  • NMR in biomedicine -

    Comparing diagnostic accuracy of luminal water imaging with diffusion-weighted and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI in prostate cancer: A quantitative MRI study.

    Sabouri S, Chang SD, Goldenberg SL, Savdie R, Jones EC, Black PC, Fazli L, Kozlowski P
  • NeuroImage -

    Temperature dependence and histological correlation of inhomogeneous magnetization transfer and myelin water imaging in ex vivo brain.

    Prevost VH, Yung A, Morris SR, Vavasour IM, Samadi-Bahrami Z, Moore GRW, Laule C, Mackay A, Kozlowski P
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