Matthew Merritt, PhD

Assistant Professor
Advanced Imaging Research Center, Radiology
Graduate Program: Molecular Biophysics

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-645-2727
Office Fax: 214-645-2744

matthew.merritt@utsouthwestern.edu

Education

Graduate SchoolWashington University, Chemistry (1996)
UndergraduateNorth Carolina State University at Raleigh, Chemistry (1991)

Research Interests

Hyperpolarization for NMR sensitivity enhancement
Magnetic Resonance
Metabolomics and Efficient NMR Data Reduction

Publications

Featured
Dipolar cross-relaxation modulates signal amplitudes in the 1H NMR spectrum of hyperpolarized [13C]formate

Merritt, Matthew E.; Harrison, Crystal; Mander, William; Malloy, Craig R.; Sherry, A. Dean , Journal of Magnetic Resonance , 2007; (189/2):280-285

Featured
Hyperpolarized 89Y Offers the Potential of Direct Imaging of Metal Ions in Biological Systems by Magnetic Resonance

Merritt, Matthew E.; Harrison, Crystal; Kovacs, Zoltan; Kshirsagar, Preeti; Malloy, Craig R.; Sherry, A. Dean , Journal of the American Chemical Society , 2007; (129/43):12942-12943

Featured
Numerical solution of the Bloch equations provides insights into the optimum design of PARACEST agents for MRI.

Woessner, D., Zhang, S., Merritt, M., Sherry, A. D. , Magnetic Resonance in Medicine , 2005; (53(4)):790-799

Featured
TCA cycle turnover and serum glucose sources by automated Bayesian analysis of NMR spectra.

Merritt, M., Bretthorst, GL., Burgess, S., Jeffrey, FMH., Sherry, AD., Malloy, C., , Magnetic Resonance in Medicine , 2003; (50(4)):659-663

Inhibition of Carbohydrate Oxidation During the First Minute of Reperfusion After Brief Ischemia: NMR Detection of Hyperpolarized 13CO2 and H13CO3-.

Merritt, Matthew E.; Harrison, Crystal; Storey, Charles; Jeffrey, F. Mark; Sherry, A. Dean; Malloy, Craig R , Magnetic Resonance in Medicine , 2008; (60/5):1029-1036

Hyperpolarized 13C allows a direct measure of flux through a single enzyme-catalyzed step by NMR

Merritt, Matthew; Harrison, Crystal; Storey, Charles; Jeffrey, F. Mark; Sherry, A. Dean; Malloy, Craig R. , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2007; (104/50):19773-19777

Honors/Awards

UTSW-UTD Cooperative Research

Pilot Study for MRS of Renal Cell Carcinomas (2007)