Tommaso Di Ianni, PhD

Asst Adjunct Professor
Psychiatry
[email protected]

Dr. Tommaso Di Ianni is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Radiology & Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the Director of the UCSF Basic Ultrasound Research Program and co-Director of the UCSF Focused Ultrasound in Neuroscience Program.

After receiving a MSc degree in electronic engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Bologna, Italy, Dr. Di Ianni obtained a PhD in biomedical engineering from the Technical University of Denmark. He then joined the Department of Radiology at Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow before joining the UCSF faculty in 2023. The Di Ianni lab develops cutting-edge technological innovations for focused ultrasound neurointervention and functional ultrasound imaging. The lab is also interested in elucidating the underlying mechanisms of therapeutic interventions for neuropsychiatric disorders, including focused ultrasound neuromodulation. Check our website for further information: https://diiannilab.ucsf.edu.

Publications: 

Thalamic transcranial ultrasound stimulation in treatment resistant depression.

Brain stimulation

Fan JM, Woodworth K, Murphy KR, Hinkley L, Cohen JL, Yoshimura J, Choi I, Tremblay-McGaw AG, Mergenthaler J, Good CH, Pellionisz PA, Lee AM, Di Ianni T, Sugrue LP, Krystal AD

Optimized ultrasound neuromodulation for non-invasive control of behavior and physiology.

Neuron

Murphy KR, Farrell JS, Bendig J, Mitra A, Luff C, Stelzer IA, Yamaguchi H, Angelakos CC, Choi M, Bian W, DiIanni T, Pujol EM, Matosevich N, Airan R, Gaudillière B, Konofagou EE, Butts-Pauly K, Soltesz I, de Lecea L

Sex dependence of opioid-mediated responses to subanesthetic ketamine in rats.

Nature communications

Di Ianni T, Ewbank SN, Levinstein MR, Azadian MM, Budinich RC, Michaelides M, Airan RD

High-throughput ultrasound neuromodulation in awake and freely behaving rats.

Brain stimulation

Di Ianni T, Morrison KP, Yu B, Murphy KR, de Lecea L, Airan RD

Mu Opioid Receptor Activation Mediates (S)-ketamine Reinforcement in Rats: Implications for Abuse Liability.

Biological psychiatry

Levinstein MR, Carlton ML, Di Ianni T, Ventriglia EN, Rizzo A, Gomez JL, Budinich RC, Shaham Y, Airan RD, Zarate CA, Bonaventura J, Michaelides M

Focused Ultrasound for Noninvasive, Focal Pharmacologic Neurointervention.

Frontiers in neuroscience

Wang JB, Di Ianni T, Vyas DB, Huang Z, Park S, Hosseini-Nassab N, Aryal M, Airan RD

Ultrasound/microbubble-mediated targeted delivery of anticancer microRNA-loaded nanoparticles to deep tissues in pigs.

Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society

Di Ianni T, Bose RJC, Sukumar UK, Bachawal S, Wang H, Telichko A, Herickhoff C, Robinson E, Baker S, Vilches-Moure JG, Felt SA, Gambhir SS, Paulmurugan R, Dahl JD

Portable Vector Flow Imaging Compared With Spectral Doppler Ultrasonography.

IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control

Di Ianni T, Hansen KL, Villagomez Hoyos CA, Moshavegh R, Nielsen MB, Jensen JA

A Vector Flow Imaging Method for Portable Ultrasound Using Synthetic Aperture Sequential Beamforming.

IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control

Di Ianni T, Villagomez Hoyos CA, Ewertsen C, Kjeldsen TK, Mosegaard J, Nielsen MB, Jensen JA

System-Level Design of an Integrated Receiver Front End for a Wireless Ultrasound Probe.

IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control

Di Ianni T, Hemmsen MC, Llimos Muntal P, Jorgensen IH, Jensen JA

Compressive sensing of full wave field data for structural health monitoring applications.

IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control

Di Ianni T, De Marchi L, Perelli A, Marzani A

Model-based compressive sensing for damage localization in Lamb wave inspection.

IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control

Perelli A, Di Ianni T, Marzani A, De Marchi L, Masetti G