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Name: Konstantin Momot
Position: Lecturer
Qualifications: B.Sc. (Novosibirsk), Ph.D. (Arizona)
Organisational Area: School of Physical & Chemical Sciences
Teaching Discipline: Physics
Research Program: Applied Physics / Medical Physics
Phone: +61 7 3138 1173
Fax: +61 7 3138 1521
Email: k.momot@qut.edu.au
Postal Address: School of Physical & Chemical Sciences, QUT, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane Qld 4001

Teaching Areas

  • Physics
  • Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy and imaging

Areas of Expertise

  • Magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging
  • Molecular transport and diffusion
  • Lipid bilayer systems
  • Numerical simulations of molecular dynamics

[Further expertise and media contact]

Professional Associations

  • RACI
  • ANZMAG
  • Australian Society for Biophysics

Current Grants

  • Mobility of water in cartilage as a probe of molecular structure and function - ARC Discovery

Selected Research Projects

  • Magnetic resonance imaging of cartilage
  • Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations of hydrated cartilage biopolymers

Selected Publications

  • K. I. Momot and F. A. Walker (1997): Investigations of rotation of axial ligands in six coordinate low spin iron(III) tetraphenylporphyrinates: measurement of rate constants from saturation transfer experiments and comparison to molecular mechanics calculations. J. Phys. Chem. A 101, 2787-2795
  • K. I. Momot, N. Binesh, O. Kohlmann and C. S. Johnson, Jr. (2000): Toroid cavity detectors for high resolution NMR spectroscopy and rotating frame imaging: capabilities and limitations. J. Magn. Reson., 142, 348-357.
  • K. I. Momot and P. W. Kuchel (2006): PFG NMR diffusion experiments for complex systems. Concepts Magn. Reson., 28A, 249 - 269.
  • K. I. Momot, K. Takegoshi, P. W. Kuchel, T. J. Larkin (2008): Inhomogeneous NMR line shape as a probe of microscopic organization of bicontinuous cubic phases. J. Phys. Chem. B, 112, 6636–6645.
  • S. K. de Visser, J. C. Bowden, L. Rintoul, E. Wentrup-Byrne, T. Bostrom, J. M. Pope, K. I. Momot (2008): Anisotropy of collagen fibre alignment in bovine cartilage: Comparison of polarised light microscopy and spatially-resolved diffusion-tensor measurements. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage,in press (accepted 19/09/2007).

[Additional Publications]

For a curriculum vitae, please download Konstantin Momot's CV [PDF 45KB]

Current Postgraduate Students

Name Project
Tim Markwell (Ph. D.) MRI of articular cartilage under mechanical load
Nerina Foley (Hons) Anisotropy of NMR relaxation in articular cartilage

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