Brayan Alves obtained his Bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Basic Sciences in Physics at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2019 and his Master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering in a joined program with the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) in 2021. His Master project was completed at the Institut de Radiophysique – Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (IRA-CHUV) in the Groupe d’Imagerie Médicale.
He enrolled as an EPFL Physics PhD student in the CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging in 2021 under the supervision of Dr. Cristina Cudalbu and Prof. Dimitri Van de Ville. He is currently working on enhancing and developing acquisition sequences, reconstruction and processing tools for preclinical fast Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Imaging MRSI at ultra-high field (14.1T) in the context of studying chronic hepatic encephalopathy.
2nd best Trainee presentation in the Metabolomics & Metabolomic Imaging Study Group @ISMRM 2025
For his work on “First implementation of fast 1H 3D-FID-MRSI on the rodent brain at 9.4T for metabolite mapping”
High Resolution in vivo preclinical 1H-FID-MRSI using Compressed Sensing : when acceleration leads to precipitation @ISMRM 2025
Acceleration of preclinical 1H-FID-MRSI in vivo acquisitions at 14.1T using Compressed Sensing @ISMRM 2024
Metabolic imaging at 14.1T in the rat brain: preliminary results for PRESS-MRSI vs FID-MRSI @ISMRM 2024
MP-PCA and LR-TGV denoising in 1H-FID-MRSI data at 14.1T: application and validation @ The MRS Workshop 2022
MP-PCA and Low-rank noise-reduction in 1H-FID-MRSI data in the rat brain at 14.1T @ ISMRM 2022
Publications
MRS4Brain: a processing toolbox for preclinical MR spectroscopy and spectroscopic imaging data
2025