Medical Physicist · Scientific Solutions Engineer

Hi, I'm Luis.

I'm a medical physicist. My PhD at UW–Madison was on imaging pulmonary structure and function using MRI. I'm now a Senior Scientific Solutions Engineer at Flywheel, where I build imaging workflows for multi-site research studies. I live in North Carolina.

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luigibytes@gmail.com

Two sides of the same work

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Research

Imaging lung structure and function with MRI.

My PhD work combined ultrashort echo time MRI, dynamic contrast perfusion and hyperpolarized xenon to follow diseases like idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis over time.

Motion compensation for free-breathing UTE lung MRI
DCE-MRI perfusion in IPF and prematurity
Hyperpolarized ¹²⁹Xe gas-exchange imaging

25 publications238 citationsh-index 7

Engineering

Building the tools that run imaging research.

At Flywheel I design containerized imaging workflows used across multi-institution studies, and partner with research sites to turn their algorithms into validated, automated pipelines.

Imaging workflows across MRI, CT, PET and ophthalmic data
Physics-informed scan classification for MR, CT and PET
Fine-tuning medical foundation models (MedSigLIP)

PythonDocker / KubernetesCI/CD

Selected work

All projects

Open-source library · OSIPI

osipy

An OSIPI-standard Python library for perfusion MRI analysis across DCE, DSC, ASL and IVIM, with multi-vendor DICOM support and optional GPU acceleration. I am its most active contributor.

Python
Perfusion MRI
GPU

Reconstruction · JMRI 2026

imoco

Python implementation of the retrospective motion compensation methods compared in our 2026 JMRI paper, from soft gating and XD-GRASP to iMoCo, for free-breathing UTE lung MRI.

Python
UTE MRI
uv

Open-source package · ISMRM 2024

fw-classification

An open-source package for classifying MRI scans, so large imaging datasets can be sorted and curated automatically.

Python
MRI
Flywheel

Selected publications

All 25 publications

2026
Comparison of Retrospective Motion Compensation Techniques for Pulmonary Dynamic Ultrashort Time to Echo MRI in Suspected Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Kizhakke Puliyakote AS, Torres LA, AlAtoum A, AlArab N, Johnson KM, Bello RM, O'Sullivan-Murphy B, Mammarappallil JG, Hahn AD, Fain SB. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
doi:10.1002/jmri.70350New
2022
Hyperpolarized ¹²⁹Xe MR Spectroscopy in the Lung Shows 1-year Reduced Function in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Hahn AD, Carey KJ, Barton GP, Torres LA, Kammerman J, Cadman RV, Lee KE, Schiebler ML, Sandbo N, Fain SB. Radiology
38 citationsdoi:10.1148/radiol.211433
2022
Dynamic imaging using motion-compensated smoothness regularization on manifolds (MoCo-SToRM)
Zou Q, Torres LA, Fain SB, Higano NS, Bates AJ, Jacob M. Physics in Medicine & Biology
28 citationsdoi:10.1088/1361-6560/ac79fc
2022
Dynamic contrast enhanced MRI for the evaluation of lung perfusion in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Torres LA, Lee KE, Barton GP, Hahn AD, Sandbo N, Schiebler ML, Fain SB. European Respiratory Journal
First author26 citationsdoi:10.1183/13993003.02058-2021
2019
Structure-function imaging of lung disease using ultrashort echo time MRI
Torres L, Kammerman J, Hahn AD, Zha W, Nagle SK, Johnson K, Sandbo N, Meyer K, Schiebler M, Fain SB. Academic Radiology
First author91 citationsdoi:10.1016/j.acra.2018.12.007

Education

Full résumé

PhD, Medical Physics
2022
University of Wisconsin–Madison · Improved Spatiotemporal Association of Structure and Function in Pulmonary MRI
BS, Physics
2014
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology