What’s Cooking at Martinos? Marco Makes Ragu
The Center’s Marco Loggia is a highly accomplished researcher. He is also one heckuva chef.
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Wellness Resources
To offer support to its staff and researchers, Partners, MGH, and several other groups have put together resources that address the challenges we may be facing in our day-to-day lives as we handle this unique…
Publications Updates
May 11, 2020 The presubiculum links incipient amyloid and tau pathology to memory function in older persons Jacobs HIL, Augustinack JC, Schultz AP, Hanseeuw BJ, Locascio J, Amariglio RE, Papp KV, Rentz DM, Sperling RA,…
Maria Angela Franceschini Named Full Professor
Franceschini is a leader in the development and application of diffuse optical imaging.
Optics Technologies Could Advance Neuromonitoring During Heart Surgery
Center researchers have developed a hybrid device for use during aortic arch replacement and other surgeries.
Artificial Intelligence Improves Treatment Monitoring in Patients with Glioma
Researchers have introduced a deep learning algorithm that automatically measures tumor volume based on MR images.
Christin Sander on Organizing the 2019 Molecular Imaging Congress
Sander, a young investigator in the Center, served as Program Committee Co-chair for WMIC 2019.
Peter Caravan and Kenneth Kwong Named ISMRM Fellows
The honor recognizes the significant role each has played in shaping the field of magnetic resonance in medicine.
Center for Mesoscale Mapping
Brain science tools have advanced in several distinct directions. Advanced tools in molecular biology now allow neuroscientists to study distinct patterns of gene expression in individual neural cells, leading to the potential for a comprehensive…
Social Media
Videos As part of our mission, we are working to disseminate our research to as wide an audience as possible. To this end, we present our social media channels here. The sidebar to the right…
The Epigenetics of Aging: Understanding neurodegeneration at the gene transcription level
A study published today suggests that HDAC expression and the resulting transcriptional changes may be a significant driver of human neurobiology.
Optical Imaging
The Martinos Optics Research facilities consists of multiple separate lab facilities including 1) fiber optic and electronics fabrication and testing, 2) instrumentation system development and testing, 3) small animal studies, 4) optical physics labs with…
Magnetoencephalography & Electroencephalography
The MEG/EEG facility is equipped with a dc-SQUID Neuromag Vectorview MEG system that allows noninvasive spatiotemporal mapping of human brain activity. The Neuromag system has 306 MEG channels (2 planar gradiometers and a magnetometer at…
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
The Center’s magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facilities include the following. Large-bore MRI Systems * All subject bays are equipped with Blu-ray/DVD players for subject entertainment Bay 1: Siemens 3T MRI Skyra with 128ch receive capabilities…
‘Pioneer Campfires’ Offer Stories of the Early Days of fMRI
The Center’s Ken Kwong and others recounted the heady times at last month’s ISMRM 2019 meeting.
Education (Old)
Education lies at the heart of everything we do: from training the next generation of scientists – students and postdoctoral fellows, among others – to hosting immersive, weeklong courses covering a range of advanced imaging…
Capital Contributions
Ever since the Martinos family’s first capital gift to create the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging in 1999, the Center has benefited from the generosity of its supporters. Capital gifts, generally to the…
Ultrahigh-field MRI Tracks Development of Cortical Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Constantina A. Treaba, Caterina Mainero and colleagues report their findings in a paper appearing in the journal Radiology.
Center Leadership
Dr. Susie Huang, Director Susie Huang, MD, PhD, is a neuroradiologist and Director of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she holds the James L. and Elisabeth C.…
Matti Hämäläinen Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
The induction ceremony was held on Monday during the AIMBE Annual Meeting at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.