The global COVID-19 pandemic has inspired countless instances of people banding together to help those on the front lines of the fight against the virus. Among the many examples is the MasksOn project, an already robust and rapidly expanding effort to address the shortage of personal protective e...
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Treating Aneurysm with MR Coagulation
A team of investigators in the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, in collaboration with medical device company Robin Medical, has developed a new method that could help to address cerebral aneurysm while adding therapeutic capabilities to magnetic resonance imaging. Cerebral aneurysm,...
A New Role for Diffusion MRI in Treating Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety disorders and depression are widespread among adolescents in the U.S., affecting as many as one in four 13 to 18 year olds. Determining the best course of treatment can be difficult, though, as we still donāt fully understand the biology underlying them. Now, using cutting-edge brain i...
20+20 Vision: 40 Years on the Cutting Edge of Science and Care
We are thrilled to announce the publication of 20+20 Vision: 40 Years on the Cutting Edge of Science and Care, a Martinos Center coffee table book. In 1980, a scrappy group of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital banded together to explore the potential of a recently introduced techno...
Why & How
The Why & How seminar series is designed to introduce research assistants, graduate students, and postdoctoral and clinical fellows - really, anyone who is interested - to the many tools used in the Center. These include software tools and most of the major imaging modalities wielded by Marti...
AMA @ Martinos: Anastasia Yendiki
The 2022 meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), to be held June 19-22 in Glasgow, Scotland, will feature keynote lectures by no fewer than two Martinos Center researchers: Anastasia Yendiki and Jon Polimeni. In anticipation of the meeting, we approached Anastasia about putting...
The Center’s Susie Huang Joins Advocacy Efforts on Capitol Hill
Susie Huang, MD, PhD, Neuroradiologist and staff at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging recently spent a few days in Washington, DC, where she participated in spring advocacy events for the Academy of Radiology Research. She talked with us about the experience: "As a part of the America...
Creativity and Diversity in the Martinos Center
Martinos Center executive director David Vaughn recently sat down to talk about his work in the Center, and about what makes the Martinos so special. Hear what he had to say about creativity and diversity in the Center in the video below. In our humble opinion, he couldn't be more right! ...
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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 includes links to the channels as well a Twitter feed and a Newsletter subscription form. Also, we hav...
Bruce Rosen on the Advanced Imaging Technologies Coming to the Martinos Center
In this video, Center director Bruce Rosen, MD, PhD, describes several cutting-edge technologies that will advance research in the center and elsewhere in the coming years: the āConnectome 2.0ā MRI scanner recently installed in the center, a PET insert for the centerās ultrahigh-field (7T) MRI sc...
Celebrating 20 Years of Ultrahigh-field Imaging at the Martinos Center
Last month, the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging hosted a special symposium celebrating the 20th anniversary of 7T MRI at MGH. The symposium featured talks and stories and other reminiscences from many of the creators and earliest users of the Center's first-of-its-kind ult...
Advanced MRI of Spinal Cord Function Could Provide Important Information for the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis
A team of investigators at the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and Vanderbilt University Medical Center has reported a new approach to measuring spinal cord function that could help in more accurately understanding the degree of spinal cord damage in relapsing-remitting multiple sclero...
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, Johnson KA. Neurology. 2020 May 5;94(18):e1916-e1928. doi: 10.1212/WNL.00...
20 Years of FreeSurfer
Itās a sunny day in Southern California and the developers of FreeSurferāa suite of software tools for the analysis of neuroimaging dataāare preparing for a training session to introduce scientists to the many benefits of the package. To help the scientists find the classroom they have hung āFree...
Thomas Yeo
Thomas Yeo is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Thomas received his B.S. and M.S. from Stanford University and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to NUS, Thomas was a research fellow at Harvard University and Duke-NUS Medical School. Th...
The Secret Lives of Martinos Folk: Kevin Dowling, Bagpiper in the Big City
Here is something of an unavoidable fact: If you play the Highland bagpipes you are going to draw a crowd, even if you arenāt actually looking for an audience. Just ask Kevin Dowling, a clinical research coordinator in the Brain Genomics Laboratory at the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Ima...
Acupuncture Yields Improved Outcomes in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Though the practice of acupuncture predates current understanding of physiology by several millennia, it often provides measureable improvements in health outcomes, particularly in the area of chronic pain. Now, in a study reported in the journal Brain, a team of investigators based at theĀ Athino...
New Software Concept Promises Boost for Clinical Trial Recruitment
What if you held a clinical trial and nobody came? While plenty of patients are eager to participate, researchers often have difficulty reaching their target enrollments for clinical trials, the goal of which is to determine the safety and efficacy of new drugs or therapies before they are bro...
The Secret Lives of Martinos Folk: Carol Barnstead and the Centerās cast of colorful characters
I have this theory that you need to be a character to work at the Martinos Center; you have to be a bit of an oddball, albeit in a fun, quirky kind of way. Iām not sure whether this is a prerequisite enforced during one of the hiring steps or is simply the result of some kind of self-selection pr...
New Software Improves Ability to Determine the Cause of Stroke
Determining the cause of an ischemic stroke is critical to preventing a second oneĀ and is a primary focus in the evaluation of stroke patients. But for all theĀ importance of identifying the cause, physicians have long lacked a robust and objective means to doĀ so. Now a team of investigators at...