Outside the Lab

Way back when
Dr. Mason's team was a lot smaller back in 1996.

2010 Team
Dr. Mason's Prognostic Radiology Lab team enjoys a moment in the shade.

Accolades
Dr. Mason flanked by two RDS graduates.

2012 grads
Among the graduates enjoying a proud sense of achievement with Dr. Mason is current lab member Heling Zhou, second from right.

2010 Team
Laboratory for Prognostic Radiology

Reaching for the summit
Imaging in 2020 Conference, Jackson Hole, WY – 2009.

Mason's best friends?
Dr. Mason and his dogs amid some majestically mountainous terrain.

Dr. Mason pauses for a well-deserved breather atop the summit.

December 2013 Holiday Party
Members of the Prognostic Radiology lab team gathered to celebrate the holidays.

Ever the sports enthusiast, Dr. Mason prepares to ski down a trail.

Graduate student Derek White enthuses about his research at BME retreat 2014.

Erica Mason presenting research at Southwestern Regional Meeting of American Chemical Society, Waco 2014.

Recognizing graduation from NIH study section: RTB after 4 years’ service.

Longtime collaborator Dr. Peter Peschke and wife Gaby, enjoying atmosphere of Mexican restaurant after guest lecture.

Research collaboration with Baylor University
Dr. Kevin Pinney, Ramona Lopez, Jeni Gerberich, Dr. Li Liu, and Dr. Mary Lynn Trawick

Speakers at the ISMRM Global Outreach Workshop in Wuhan, China. Drs. Aytekin Oto, University of Chicago; Ralph Mason; Carlos Torres, The University of Ottawa; Eric Achten Ghent University Hospital; Geoffrey Young, Harvard Medical School and Brigham Women’s Hospital University; Vikas Gulani Case Western Reserve; and Garry Gold, Stanford University; June 2015-Wuhan, China

Ralph Mason sharing ideas with a moose!
ISMRM 2015 Annual Meeting - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ralph presenting at ISMRM Global Outreach Workshop
June 2015 - Wuhan, China

Li Li, Jeni Gerberich, Ralph Mason, and Srinivas Chiguru
July 2015 - Bush Library, TAMU, College Station, TX

The MIRA group has dinner at Ninfa's restaurant in Waco, TX.
July 2015

MIRA group at the Bush Library July 2015
Li Li, Jeni Gerberich, and Srinivas Chiguru

Fall at the Great Wall near Badaling

Li Liu giving lecture at Hubei University of Medicine.
Shiyan, Hubei

Ralph Mason, wife Joanne Mason, and Li Liu at the Great Wall.

Ralph Mason lecturing to a rapt audience at Hubei University of Medicine
October 2015 Shiyan, Hubei, China

Ralph at Hubei University of Medicine prior to giving his lecture.
October 2015 Shiyan, Hubei

Ralph preparing for lecture at Hubei University of Medicine
October 2015 Shiyan, Hubei

Ralph at the Drum Tower
Shiyan, October 2015

Ralph Mason, wife Joanne Mason, and Li Liu at the Wudanshan--the birthplace of Taoism.
Outside Shiyan, October 2015

Jo Wagner in Karate Class, back row far right

Finalists of the MR of Cancer study group session at ISMRM, Singapore 2016
Left to right: Drs. Heling Zhou (UTSW); Jae Mo Park (Stanford, now UTSW), Mattijs Elschot and Eugene Kim (Norwegian University of Science and Technology); Jan-Willem Beenakker (Leiden University Medical Center)

A little respite after the ISMRM meeting.
Heling Zhou and BME student Josh Greer contemplating passage across the MacRitchie Nature Trail suspension bridge which was being actively guarded by a local macaque.

ISMRM 2016
Ralph taking in the sights of Singapore

ISMRM 2016
Ralph getting acquainted with a local statue in Singapore.

The Second Affinity Hospital of Nanchang University
Seminar at Second Affinity Hospital of Nanchang University

Yuelu Mountain view, Changsha, China 2016
A little R&R during Biomedical Nanotechnology conference in Changsha with colleagues JT Hsieh, Qun Tang, Wei Chen and local host medical students atop the Yuelu mountain.

Biomedical Nanotechnology Conference in Changsha
Speakers and organizers of the Biomedical Nanotechnology Conference, Changsha, Hunan, China 2016

The 2016 Biomedical Nanotechnology Conference in Changsha, Hunan, China
Participants of the Biomedical Nanotechnology Conference in Changsha, China

Museum of the Second Jianya Hospital, Changsha
Tour of the Museum of the Second Jianya Hospital, Changsha, Hunan, China, July 2016. Ralph with colleagues Professors JT Hsieh (UTSW Urology), Qun Tang (Nanchang University), Wei Chen (UTA) and local hosts.

Visit to A*STAR, First International Biophotonics Conference, July 2016, Singapore
Visit to A*STAR during 1st International Biophotonics Conference

2016 WMIC Ralph and Julio Cardenas
Ralph with colleague Julio Cardenas-Rodrigues from University of Arizona congratulating each other on bringing a collaborative study to fruition

Devin O'Kelly presents a poster at 2016 WMIC
Devin O'Kelly discussing aspects of his poster at the WMIC conference.

Ralph receives MA from Cambridge University
Ralph returned to alma mater, Churchill College in Oct. 2016 where he received an MA from Cambridge University.

Lab members and their guests enjoy the 2016 Radiology Department holiday party.
Li Liu, Mike Gerberich, Jeni Gerberich, Sharda Kumari, Maoping Li, Melody Reeves and Heling Zhou.

A little respite from the 2017 ISMRM conference.
Tats Arai, Mo Yang and Heling Zhou exploring the Oahu coast.

The MR of Cancer study group committee for 2017-2018.

Lab outing on Lake Grapevine.
Alex Winters, Jo Wagner, and Heling Zhou with Ralph Mason (Fall 2017).

Ralph hiking Sierras near Half Dome 2018
Hiking vacation in the eastern Sierras- looking towards Half Dome. August 2018

Ralph enjoying a little R&R and seeing the sights before the ISMRM, Paris 2018

Ralph's latest passion-Cyclocross-here racing in Gouceshter MA in 2018

Dr. Peter Peschke, longtime colleague visits from Heidelberg.

Ralph at the University of Oslo
Ralph was invited to be lead examiner in Disputation for doctoral candidate at the University of Oslo.