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PhD, CPhys, FInstP, CSci, FIPEM
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- About
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- Email Address
- g.waiter@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 438356
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Personal Assistant- Personal Assistant
- Mrs Dawn Younie
- Personal Assistant Email Address
- d.younie@abdn.ac.uk
- Personal Assistant Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 438365
Biography
Dr. Waiter graduated from the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, in 1989 with a BSc (Hons) in Physical Sciences majoring in Physics. He then moved to Dundee University, Department of Medical Physics as Research Assistant, to develop MR imaging test objects. He returned to Aberdeen in 1991, this time to the University of Aberdeen to undertake a PhD in Medical Physics, under the supervision of Dr. M. Foster
He joined the staff of Aberdeen University in 1996 as a research fellow working in collaboration with the university Department of BioMedical Physics and NHS Department of Cardiology to develop image analysis methods for the detection of hibernating myocardium.
In 2001 Dr Waiter joined the School of Psychology to help initiate functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on a new 1.5T research dedicated scanner at the University of Aberdeen.
In 2004 he joined the Department of Radiology (now part of the Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre) to continue the development of functional magnetic resonance imaging in Aberdeen. His work has included paradigm design, data analysis, data acquisition, quality control and image analysis.
Dr Waiter was appointed Reader in 2021.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Director, Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre
Associate Director, Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science
Honorary Clinical Scientist and MR Safety Expert, NHS Grampian
Member, North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 2
- External Memberships
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Aberdeen Lead for SINAPSE (www.sinapse.ac.uk)
Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP)
Chartered Physicist (CPhys)
Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (FIPEM)
Chartered Scientist (CSci)
Latest Publications
Associations between sex, systemic iron and inflammatory status and subcortical brain iron
European Journal of NeuroscienceContributions to Journals: ArticlesEating Disorder and Autism Collaborative (EDAC) project outline: Promoting eating disorder research embedded in a neurodiversity-affirming culture
BJPsych bulletinContributions to Journals: ArticlesDisrupted Limbic-Prefrontal Effective Connectivity in Response to Fearful Faces in Lifetime Depression
Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 351, pp. 983-993Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCharacterizing the Neurobiological Mechanisms of Action of Exercise and Cognitive–Behavioral Interventions for Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue: a magnetic resonance imaging brain study
Arthritis & Rheumatology, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 522-530Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGeneral and specific patterns of cortical gene expression as spatial correlates of complex cognitive functioning
Human Brain Mapping, vol. 45, no. 4, e26641Contributions to Journals: Articles
- Research
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Research Overview
Dr. Gordon Waiter's main areas of interest are in brain plasticity and cognition with a focus on the mechanisms of age-related cognitive decline and in particular the role of inflammation, both chronic and acute, and immunosenescence in brain ageing.
The pathology that leads to dementia begins many decades before symptoms appear. It is hoped that an improved understanding of the age-related changes in brain health and cognition, and the impact of cardiometabolic and inflammation factors, will have an impact on public health through targets for intervention, earlier diagnosis, therapy monitoring and drug development. It will bring a new understanding of common neurodegenerative diseases at a personalised level, allowing individualised treatment and new ways to diagnose the brain diseases that lead to dementia.
Dr. Waiter has developed a multisystem approach based on a combination of novel and established computational neuroimaging, biochemistry, and statistical modelling methods and is applying them to disorders reporting common symptoms like cognitive decline, brain fog and Long COVID.
- Teaching
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Programmes
- Postgraduate, 3 stage, September start
- Postgraduate, 3 stage, January start
Teaching Responsibilities
Dr Waiter is Programme Co-ordinator for the MSc in Medical Imaging
Dr Waiter is the course co-ordinator for the Magnetic Resonance Imaging deeper study (BP5503) of the BioMedical Physics/Medical Imaging MSc, where he teaches fMRI theory and image analysis techniques as well as cardaic MR imaging. He also teaches Statistical Paramagnetic Mapping (SPM) on the Medical Image Processing and Analysis deeper study (BP5505).
- Publications
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Blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) MRI: a novel technique for the assessment of myocardial ischemia as identified by nuclear imaging SPECT
European Journal of Internal Medicine, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 581-586Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2007.03.013
Blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) magnetic resonance imaging in patients with dypiridamole induced ischaemia; a PET comparative study
International Journal of Cardiology, vol. 115, no. 1, pp. 36-41Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/J.IJCARD.2006.01.054
Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) MRI: A novel technique for the detection of myocardial ischemia
European Journal of Internal Medicine, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 551-555Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/J.EJIM.2006.04.015
Blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) magnetic resonance imaging in patients with dypiridamole induced ischemia; a PET comparative study
European Heart Journal, vol. 27, no. Suppl., pp. 415-416Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBlood oxygen level-dependent magnetic resonance imaging in patients with dypiridamole induced ischemia
Heart, vol. 92Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNeural mechanisms of imitation and ‘mirror neuron’ functioning in autistic spectrum disorder
Neuropsychologia, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 610-621Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.06.010
An fMRI study of joint attention experience
Neuroimage, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 133-140Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.10.047
Structural white matter deficits in high-functioning individuals with autistic spectrum disorder: a voxel-based investigation
Neuroimage, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 455-461Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.08.049
A voxel-based investigation of brain structure in male adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder
Neuroimage, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 619-625Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.02.029
Examination of the long term health impact of diving
European Journal of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 24-25Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDetection of scarred and viable myocardium using a new magnetic resonance imaging technique: Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) MRI
Heart, vol. 89, no. 7, pp. 738-744Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/HEART.89.7.738
Novel T*2-weighted contrast preparation scheme for segmented k-space myocardial imaging
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 776-780Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.10419
Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) MRI for the detection of scarred and viable myocardium, a PET comparative study
European Heart Journal, vol. 23, pp. 305Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRegional myocardial wall thickening assessed at rest by ECG gated 18F-FDG positron emission tomography and by magnetic resonance imaging
Heart, vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 332-333Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/heart.84.3.332
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Dobutamine magnetic resonance imaging as a predictor of myocardial functional recovery after revascularisation
Heart, vol. 83, pp. 40-46Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRegional myocardial wall thickening assessed at rest by ECG gated F-18-FDG positron emission tomography and by magnetic resonance imaging
Heart, vol. 84, pp. 332-333Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDetermination of normal regional left ventricular function from cine-MR images using a semi-automated edge detection method
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 17, pp. 99-107Contributions to Journals: ArticlesComparison of four magnetization preparation schemes to improve blood-wall contrast in cine short-axis cardiac imaging
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 291-299Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.1910390217
Dobutamine stress MRI as a pre operative predictor of myocardial viability in areas of regional wall motion abnormality
Heart, vol. 77, no. SUPPL. 1Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Lanthanide-EDTA doped agarose gels for use in NMR imaging phantoms
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 929-938Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0730-725X(97)00139-2
The variation of proton density in agarose gels used as NMR test substances through the use of glass beads
Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 541-546Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/36/4/012