Magnetic Particle Imaging May Allow Intraoperative Breast Tumor Margin Assessment
The Center’s Erica Mason, Larry Wald and colleagues have demonstrated the sensitivity of the technique in simulations of breast-conserving surgery.
The Center’s Jacob Hooker Joins the Lurie Center for Autism as Scientific Director
Hooker says his new job at Mass General’s Lurie Center for Autism is to “develop a strategy for how we move autism science forward in a very meaningful way.”
Noninvasive Imaging Strategy Detects Dangerous Blood Clots in the Body
The Center’s David Sosnovik and colleagues have developed and tested a targeted contrast agent that can detect blood clots throughout the body – including in vessels that, when blocked, can lead to stroke.
Human Whole-Brain Diffusion MRI Dataset Available Online
Reported by Fuyixue Wang and colleagues, it is the first publicly available reference dataset acquired in vivo at submillimeter resolution.
A New Link between Pain Widespreadness and Catastrophizing Thoughts about Pain
Vitaly Napadow, Dan-Mikael Ellingsen and colleagues reported the findings in Pain.
PET/MRI Reproducibly Discriminates between Individuals with and without Chronic Low Back Pain
Angel Torrado-Carvajal and Marco L. Loggia and colleagues have reproduced and expanded on earlier work showing that a thalamic neuroinflammation signal on PET/MRI distinguishes patients with chronic low back pain from healthy controls.
Functional Connectivity on MEG May Be a Biomarker of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Using MEG, the Center’s Fahimeh Mamashli, Tal Kenet and colleagues determined that children with ASD show altered functional connectivity in response to inverted faces.
Movies and Narratives as Naturalistic Stimuli in Neuroimaging
Jyrki Ahveninen and colleagues recently reviewed the use of movies and stories as stimuli during neuroimaging research into memory attention, language, emotions and social cognition.
Understanding the Patient-Clinician Relationship with ‘Hyperscanning’ fMRI
Using the novel approach, Vitaly Napadow and his team demonstrated the positive impact of good bedside manner.
PET/MRI Superior to MRI Alone for Staging of Rectal Cancer
Compared with standalone MRI hybrid PET/MRI enabled more accurate evaluation of tumor size N status and external sphincter infiltration in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer.
Will Social Distancing Have a Lasting Impact on ‘Personal Space’?
Daphne Holt and Roger Tootell are using virtual reality to study how ‘personal space’ requirements have changed as a result of social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Solving Technical Problems in Fetal MRI
The Center’s John Kirsch and colleagues review strategies for optimizing image quality and reducing artifacts during fetal MRI.
The Center’s Regan Butterfield on Her New Role with SNMMI
Butterfield is serving as Education co-chair for the society’s Clinical Trials Network.
AMI Amputation Improves Motor Execution, Sensory Perception
The Center’s Shriya Srinivasan, Robert Barry and colleagues describe the findings in Science Translational Medicine.
Martinos Center Joins QMENTA, University of Rochester in Announcing the Results of the ‘IronTract Challenge’
Global computational researchers collaborated and competed to advance the field of Diffusion MRI Tractography.
MRI Findings Support Gradient of Spinal Cord Demyelination in Multiple Sclerosis
Caterina Mainero and colleagues have become the first to identify in vivo a specific spatial pattern of lesion development in the spinal cord of MS patients in which meningeal inflammation may play a role.
Early Details of Brain Damage in COVID-19 Patients
Eva-Maria Ratai and colleagues report finding metabolic disturbances in the brain in one of the first spectroscopic imaging-based studies of neurological injury in COVID-19 patients.
New Portable Scanner to Bring MRI to the Patient
The new device was reported last week in in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering.
New Molecular Imaging Tool Detects Pulmonary Fibrosis
Peter Caravan and colleagues use a novel PET probe to find type I collagen and identify disease activity in pulmonary fibrosis.
Advances in MRI Technologies for Chronic Liver Diseases
Iris Y. Zhou, Onofrio A. Catalano and Peter Caravan review a host of functional and molecular MRI techniques.