Brad Sutton
Primary Research Area
- Bioimaging at Multi-Scale
Research Areas
- Biomedical imaging
- Diffusion weighted imaging
- Dynamic imaging
- Functional MRI
- Image reconstruction
- Instrumentation
- Magnetic susceptibility
- MRI
- Neural engineering (general)
- Neuromuscular coupling
- Systems modeling approaches to understand brain function
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Biography
Brad Sutton Brad Sutton, PhD, is a Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and Technical Director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at Beckman Institute. He is an affiliate faculty in the Neuroscience Program, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a Health Innovation Professor with the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, a fellow with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and an investigator at the CZ Biohub Chicago. He has over 20 years experience as a magnetic resonance imaging physicist, designing acquisition and image reconstruction techniques for functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging in humans and animals. His research is focused on making careful measures of physiological variations (structure, function, blood flow, stiffness) in the brain across interventions, age, nutrition, development, and disease. He has over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers and 10 patents in the development of novel imaging techniques. He is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and a fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).
Education
- Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2003
Academic Positions
- Health Innovation Professor, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, 8/2022 - 7/2027
- Professor, Bioengineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 8/2017-present
- Abel Bliss Scholar, College of Engineering, UIUC 2014-
- Technical Director, Biomedical Imaging Center, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 5/2014-present
Professional Societies
- AIMBE Fellow since 2017
- IEEE, member since 2001.
- International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, member since 1999. Named a Fellow 2024
Service on Campus Committees
- University Scholar Selection Committee, 2024, 2025.
Research Interests
- Neuromuscular coupling
- Image Reconstruction
- Magnetic Susceptibility
- Diffusion Weighted Imaging
- Dynamic Imaging
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Primary Research Area
- Bioimaging at Multi-Scale
Research Areas
- Biomedical imaging
- Diffusion weighted imaging
- Dynamic imaging
- Functional MRI
- Image reconstruction
- Instrumentation
- Magnetic susceptibility
- MRI
- Neural engineering (general)
- Neuromuscular coupling
- Systems modeling approaches to understand brain function
Selected Articles in Journals
- Bethke E, Bramlet MT, Sutton BP, Evans JL, Hanner A, Tran A, O'Rourke B, Soofi N, Amos JR. Assessing the impact of virtual reality on surgeons' mental models of complex congenital heart cases. Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg. 2025.
- Heselton HJ, Anderson AT, Johnson CL, Cohen NJ, Sutton BP, Schwarb H. Putamen Stiffness Declines with Age and Is Associated with Implicit Sequence Learning Outcomes. Brain Sci. 2025;15(9). PMCID: PMC12468379.
- Lara-Cinisomo S, Nutlis MM, Ramirez Olarte A, Sutton BP, Larsen RJ, Schwarb H. Exploring the feasibility and acceptability of using fMRI to measure pain responses in women with and without postpartum depression. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging. 2025;353:112042.
- Nielsen JF, Egan MK, Chen Q, Shafiekhani M, Soldate JS, Lisinksi J, LaConte SM, Sutton BP, Waggoner RA, Fessler JA, Noll DC, Zaitsev M, Peltier SJ. A vendor-neutral functional MRI acquisition protocol for multi-site studies. medRxiv. 2025. PMCID: PMC12425038.
- Rosok LM, Cannavale CN, Kim J, Pascual-Abreu M, Roman CK, Kinder CJ, Keye SA, Renzi-Hammond L, Schwarb H, Sutton BP, Khan NA. Skin and Macular Carotenoids in Relation to Brain Structure and Function in School-Aged Children. The Journal of nutrition. 2025;155(12):4209–21. PMCID: PMC12799556.
- Spinu L, Rafat Y, Shereen AD, Sutton BP, Percival M, Myslyk A, Kim J. An integrative approach to bilingual cognition: preliminary insights into phonetic learning and sensorimotor adaptation. Front Hum Neurosci. 2025;19:1549435. PMCID: PMC12331681.
- Guo R, Li Y, Zhao Y, Jin W, Chai Y, Anderson A, Hassaneen W, Damon B, Wszalek T, Li Y, Wiesner HM, Zhu XH, Chen W, Sutton BP, Liang ZP. High-Resolution Brain Metabolic Imaging at Ultrahigh Field Using Extended Spatiospectral Encoding and Subspace Modeling. IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering. 2025;72(12):3558–66. PMCID: PMC12750629.
- Wang Z, Sutton BP, Lam F. High-resolution, volumetric diffusion-weighted MR spectroscopic imaging of the brain. Magn Reson Med. 2025 Mar 10;. doi: 10.1002/mrm.30479. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 40065541.
- Chai Y, Li L, Stirnberg R, Huber L, Stöcker T, Bandettini PA, Sutton BP. Blood nulling versus tissue suppression: Enhancing integrated VASO and perfusion (VAPER) contrast for laminar fMRI. Imaging Neuroscience. 2025;3:imag_a_00453.
- Jain S, Lesnovskaya A, Wan L, Molinaâ€Hidalgo C, Huang H, Marsland A, Grove G, Oberlin L, Kang C, Kramer A, Hillman C, McAuley E, Burns JM, Vidoni ED, Sutton B, Erickson KI. Relation Between Markers of Systemic Inflammation, White Matter Lesions, and Cognitive Performance in Late Adulthood. Alzheimer's & Dementia. 2025;20(S2).
- Bramlet M, Mohamadi S, Srinivas J, Dassanayaka T, Okammor T, Shadden M, Sutton BP. Automating aortic cross-sectional measurement of 3D aorta models. J Med Imaging (Bellingham). 2024;11(3):034503. PMCID: PMC11135202.
- Chai Y, Morgan AT, Handwerker DA, Li L, Huber L, Sutton BP, Bandettini PA. Improving laminar fMRI specificity by reducing macrovascular bias revealed by respiration effects. Imaging Neuroscience. 2024;2:1-16.
- Evans JL, Bramlet MT, Davey C, Bethke E, Anderson AT, Huesmann G, Varatharajah Y, Maldonado A, Amos JR, Sutton BP. SEEG4D: a tool for 4D visualization of stereoelectroencephalography data. Front Neuroinform. 2024;18:1465231. PMCID: PMC11405301.
- Squire JD, Anderson AT, Johnson CL, Sutton BP. ANTs, BET, or...neither? An exploration of brain masking and machine learning tools applied to magnetic resonance elastography. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2024;2024:1–4.
- Xing F, Jin R, Gilbert I, El Fakhri G, Perry J, Sutton B, Woo J. Quantifying Velopharyngeal Motion Variation in Speech Sound Production Using an Audio-Informed Dynamic MRI Atlas. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2023;12464. PMCID: PMC10448831.
- Seo Y, Kim BS, Ballance WC, Aw N, Sutton B, Kong H. Transparent and Flexible Electronics Assembled with Metallic Nanowire-Layered Nondrying Glycerogel. Acs Appl Mater Inter. 2020;12(11):13040–50.
- Klaren RE, Hubbard EA, Wetter NC, Sutton BP, Motl RW. Objectively measured sedentary behavior and brain volumetric measurements in multiple sclerosis. Neurodegener Dis Manag. 2017;7(1):31–7.
Patents
- Bramlet M, Sutton BP. Aortic arch segmentation and analysis. US20250238930A1 patent application published July 24, 2025.
Research Honors
- Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (2024)