BSc (Hons) (Med Sci), MBChB, FRCR, FRCP
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- arnab.rana@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
Radiology Department
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Foresterhill
Aberdeen AB12 3RT
UK
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
- Research
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Research Overview
Current interests
- Fast Field Cycling MRI
- Brain tumours
- Stroke
Previous interests
- Aneurysms
- Diffusion weighted imaging
- Dementia
- Vertebroplasty
Research summary, skills gained, statistical and software expertise
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.
Current Research
I am PI for Fast Field Cycling MRI in Brain Lesions.
I am the Named Radiologist for DASH, DexEnceph, TWIST and TRIMETHS studies.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
MBChB year 2 lecturing on
- Neurovascular anatomy, cerebral aneurysms and basic stroke syndromes [3D lecture]
- Ventricles, hemispheres, venous sinuses and skull base [3D lecture]
- Neuroradiology
Postgraduate Neurosurgical tutor for
- Aberdeen FRCS(Neuro Surg) viva course
- Aberdeen White Matter Dissection Course