Susan L.Kraft, Ph.D
Associate Professor

Areas of Interest - Cancer imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and spectroscopy, radiation therapy, neuroradiology.

Dr. Kraft serves as a veterinary radiologist providing clinical service in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital and as co-director of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging service in the Animal Cancer Center. Her research and special clinical imaging interests are cancer imaging with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In addition to board certification in diagnostic imaging, she is also boarded in veterinary radiation oncology with an interest in the application of imaging modalities for treatment planning as well as evaluation of radiation effects.

Dr. Kraft's research involves the use of MRI and MR spectroscopy for detecting and characterizing cancer and in evaluating its response to therapy. This particularly involves imaging of parameters important to treatment response
such as tumor vascularity, hypoxia, perfusion, and tumor metabolism.

Courses taught

VM726 Principles of Imaging Interpretation I
VM625 Physics of Diagnostic Imaging
VM616 Radiographic Anatomy
R701 Radiographic Techniques
R711 Advanced Radiographic Interpretation