BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH (updated April 2008)
NAME Natalie Louise Adolphi		POSITION TITLE Scientist, New Mexico Resonance
EDUCATION/TRAINING
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION	DEGREE		YEAR(s)	FIELD OF STUDY
Augustana College, Rock Island IL	BA		1989	Physics
Washington University in St. Louis	MA		1991	Physics
Washington University in St. Louis	PhD		1995	Physics, NMR

A. Positions and Honors.

Positions and Employment

2003-present Scientist, New Mexico Resonance, Albuquerque NM

2001-2003 Associate Professor of Physics, Knox College, Galesburg IL

1995-2001 Assistant Professor of Physics, Knox College, Galesburg IL

Other Experience and Professional Memberships

2003-present Member, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

1999-2003 Executive Committee Member, Pew Midstates Science and Math Consortium

1991-present Member, American Physical Society

1988-present Member, Phi Beta Kappa

B. Peer-reviewed publications (in reverse chronological order).

N.L. Adolphi and D.O. Kuethe, “Quantitative Mapping of Ventilation-Perfusion Ratios in Lungs by 19F MR Imaging of T1 of Inert Fluorinated Gases,” Magn. Reson. Med. 59 (2008) 739-746.

M.S. Conradi, M.P. Mendenhall, T.M. Ivancic, E.A. Carl, C.D. Browning, P.H.L. Notten, W.P. Kalisvaart, P.C.M.M. Magusin, R.C. Bowman Jr., S.-J. Hwang, and N.L. Adolphi, “NMR to determine rates of motion and structures in metal-hydrides,“ J. Alloys Comp. 446-447 (2007) 499-503.

R.E. Serda, N.L. Adolphi, M. Bisoffi, and L.O. Sillerud, “Targeting and cellular trafficking of magnetic nanoparticles for prostate cancer imaging,” Mol. Imaging 6 (2007) 277-88.

A.F. McDowell, N.L. Adolphi, “Operating nano-liter scale NMR microcoils in a 1 Tesla field,” J. Magn. Reson. 188 (2007) 74-82.

H.C. Bryant, D.A. Sergatskov, D. Lovato, N.L. Adolphi, R.S. Larson, and E.R. Flynn, “Magnetic Needles and Superparamagnetic Cells,” Phys. Med. Biol. 52 (2007) 4009-4025.

D.O. Kuethe, N.L. Adolphi, and E. Fukushima, “Short Data Acquisition Times Improve Projection Images of Lung Tissue,” Magn. Reson. Med 57 (2007)1058-64.

R.C. Bowman, Jr., N.L. Adolphi, S.-J. Hwang, J.G. Kulleck, T.J. Udovic, Q. Huang, and H. Wu, “Deuterium Site Occupancy and Phase Boundaries in ZrNiD_x (0.87 £ x £ 3.0),” Phys. Rev. B 74, 184109 (2006).

 
L.O. Sillerud, A.F. McDowell, N.L. Adolphi, R.E. Serda, D.P. Adams, M.J. Vasile, and T.M. Alam, “1H NMR Detection of superparamagnetic nanoparticles at 1 T using a microcoil and novel tuning circuit,” J. Magn. Reson. 181(2006) 181-190.
 
N.L. Adolphi and D.O. Kuethe, “Imaging V/Q by mapping the T1 of Inert Fluorinated Gases,” Proc. Intl. Soc. Magn. Reson. Med. 2005;13:52.
 
D.O. Kuethe, N.L. Adolphi, S. Bredow, and K. Divine, “Differentiation of Lung Adenocarcinoma from Normal Tissue Using T1-weighed FID Projection Imaging,” Proc. Intl. Soc. Magn. Reson. Med. 2005;13:1787.
 
L.O. Sillerud, S.G. Popa, E.A. Coutsias, D. Sheltraw, D.O. Kuethe, and N.L. Adolphi, “Research Results on Biomagnetic Imaging of Lung Tumors,” in Advanced Biomedical and Clinical Diagnostic Systems III; Tuan Vo-Dinh, Warren S. Grundfest M.D., David A. Benaron M.D., Gerald E. Cohn; Eds. Proc. SPIE 5692, 1 (2005).
 
N.L. Adolphi and D.O. Kuethe, “V/Q mapping using Inert Fluorinated Gas T1s,” Proc. Intl. Soc. Magn. Reson. Med. 2004;11:845.
 
D.O. Kuethe, N.L. Adolphi, R.E. Montano, “FID projection pulse sequences for imaging lung tissue and inflammation,” Proc. Intl. Soc. Magn. Reson. Med. 2003;11:1373.
 

V.D. Kodibagkar, P.A. Fedders, C.D. Browning, R.C. Bowman, Jr., N.L. Adolphi, and M.S. Conradi, "Vacancy ordering phase transition in ZrBe₂(H/D)_x: NMR and electronic structure study," Phys. Rev. B 67, 045107, (2003).

N.L. Adolphi, S. Badola, L.A. Browder, R.C. Bowman, Jr., “Magic-Angle Spinning NMR Study of Deuterium Site Occupancy and Dynamics in ZrNiD_1.0 and ZrNiD_3.0,” Phys. Rev. B, 65, 024301 (2001).

A.F. McDowell, N.L. Adolphi, C.A. Sholl, “Site and barrier energy distributions that govern the rate of hydrogen motion in quasicrystalline Ti₄₅Zr₃₈Ni₁₇H_x,” Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 13, 9799 (2001).

N.A. Stojanovich, D.W. Pfitsch, A.F. McDowell, N. L. Adolphi, E.H. Mazjoub, J.Y. Kim, and K. F. Kelton, “Conduction-electron-mediated ¹H nuclear spin-lattice relaxation in Ti₄₅Zr₃₈Ni₁₇H_x icosahedral quasicrystals,” Phil. Mag. Lett. 80, 763 (2000).

K.R. Faust, D.W. Pfitsch, N.A. Stojanovich, A.F. McDowell, N.L. Adolphi, E.H. Majzoub, J.Y. Kim, P.C. Gibbons, and K.F. Kelton, ”NMR second-moment study of hydrogen sites in icosahedral Ti₄₅Zr₃₈Ni₁₇ quasicrystals” Phys. Rev. B 62, 11444 (2000).

J.J. Balbach, M.S. Conradi, M.M. Hoffmann, T.J. Udovic, and N.L. Adolphi, “Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Evidence of Disorder and Motion in Yttrium Trideuteride,” Phys. Rev. B 58, 14823 (1998).

T. Moses and N.L. Adolphi, “A New Twist for the Conical Pendulum,” The Physics Teacher 36, 372 (1998).

N.L. Adolphi, J.J. Balbach, M.S. Conradi, J.T. Markert, R.M. Cotts, and P. Vajda, “Deuterium Site Occupancy in YD_x by Magic-Angle Spinning NMR,” Phys. Rev. B 53, 15054 (1996).

N.L. Adolphi, “Shared Positions a Creative Solution for Academic Couples,” American Physical Society News, p. 5 (December 1995).

N.L. Adolphi, M.S. Conradi, and T. Matsuo, "A 35Cl NQR Study of Thiourea-CCl₄ and Thiourea-CCl₃Br Inclusion Compounds," J. Phys. Chem. 98, 1968 (1994).

S.C. Goel, W.E. Buhro, N.L. Adolphi, and M.S. Conradi, "Low-temperature Organometallic Synthesis of Crystalline and Glassy Ternary semiconductors M_IIM_IVP₂ where M_II=Zn and Cd, and M_IV=Ge and Sn,'' Organic Chem. 449, 9 (1993).

N.L. Adolphi and M.S. Conradi, “¹⁵N NMR Study of Thermally Cycled KCN Pellets," Phys. Rev. B 47, 5435 (1993).

M.A. Matchett, A.M. Viano, N.L. Adolphi, R.D. Stoddard, W.E. Buhro, M.S. Conradi, and P.C. Gibbons, "A Sol-gel Route to Crystalline Cadmium Phosphide Nanoclusters," Chem. Mater. 4, 508 (1992).

N.L. Adolphi, R.D. Stoddard, S.C. Goel, W.E. Buhro, P.C. Gibbons, and M.S. Conradi, "The ³¹P NMR Spectra of Cd₃P₂ and Zn₃P₂," J. Phys. Chem. Solids 53, 1275 (1992).

N.L. Adolphi, M.S. Conradi, and W.E. Buhro, "The ³¹P NMR Spectrum of InP," J. Phys. Chem. Solids 53, 1073 (1992).

N.L. Adolphi and M.S. Conradi, "Two-part Freezing in the Orientational Glass (KCN)_x (NaCN)_1-x," Phys. Rev. B 45, 13057 (1992).

D.B. Baker, N.L. Adolphi, M.S. Conradi, P.A. Fedders, R.E. Norberg, R.G. Barnes, and D.R. Torgeson, "Evidence for the High-Temperature Spin-relaxation Anomaly in Metal Hydrides," Phys. Rev. B 46, 184 (1992).

R.C. Frank, P.D. Sucharitsopit, N.L. Adolphi, J.E. Baker, P. Baldo and L.E. Rehn, "A SIMS Study of the Filling of Traps for Deuterium in Krypton-implanted Nickel," Scripta Metallurgica 22, 457 (1988).

C. Research Support

1R01CA123194-01A1 (PI L.O. Sillerud)

NIH/NCI

Agents for Specific NMR and SQUID Imaging of Prostate Cancer

The major goal of this project is to develop critically-needed, non-invasive magnetic imaging agents for prostate cancer detection and staging, using a novel approach that combines Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) imaging.

Consulting (PI E.R. Flynn)

Senior Scientific, LLC, Albuquerque, NM

The major goal of this consulting contract is to provide assistance to Senior Scientific, LLC, in the preparation and characterization of magnetically-labeled samples and in the acquisition and analysis of SQUID magnetometry and MRI data from these samples.