Dr Arnab Rana

2017-

Fast field cycling MRI in brain lesions

Principal Investigator (PI). Regulatory liaison - ethics, IRAS and University Sponsorship achieved. Research protocol, GP letter, patient information sheet and invitation letter written. Patient recruitment/consent. Follow up. Maintenance of confidential and anonymised spreadsheets. Training non-medical staff about brain images and highlighting abnormal areas to physicist. MS SharePoint for document collaboration.

2017-

Named radiologist for DASH, DexEnceph, TWIST, TRIMETHS

Named contact for these trials between NHS Radiology and Research.

2014-2018

Meningioma - systematic review of recurrence rates

Medical student supervision

2014-2018

Glioblastoma multiforme non-tumour presentations

Radiology registrar project supervision.

2013-2018

Hippocampal volume and cognitive ageing

Study design. R statistical software. Basic and advanced statistics including principal components analysis and receiver-operator characteristics. Risk plot creation. Administration in R including use of add-on packages. Checking of data and appreciation of data set limitations. Research team group dynamics.

2015-2016

Hyperdense middle cerebral artery in acute stroke

Manual measurements in Carestream PACS. Spreadsheet creation.

2012-2013

Likelihood of aneurysms in patients who are unenhanced CT negative, LP xanthochromia positive and CTA negative

Co-ordinating biochemistry and neuroradiology. Lyx/LaTeX/BibTeX for manuscript creation.

2010-2011

Symptom relief from facet joint blocks pre-vertebroplasty

Ploticus software for producing beehive plot. MS Excel for spreadsheets. MS PowerPoint for poster.

2008-2009

Predicting contrast-induced nephropathy from creatinine vs eGFR

Receiver Operator Characteristics using Rockit software

2006-2007

Pathophysiology and embolization of cerebral aneurysms in neonates – literature review and case series

First author paper publication.

1999-2003

Diffusion weighted imaging in acute stroke

Manual measurement of regions of interest, anatomical identification of contralateral (control) regions of interest, correlation coefficients. Multiple published papers, posters and abstracts. Unix, Analyze, Excel, SPSS.

1998-1999

Dyslexia, brain morphology and a hypothesis – Neuroscience BSc thesis

Library research, OVID paper searching, reading abstracts, critical appraisal, manuscript preparation, referencing, hypothesis generation. MS Word document editing with cross-references, automatic numbered citations, proper use of heading styles.