Caroline Magnain

Dr. Magnain is an assistant professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School and assistant in physics at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Throughout her career, she has strived to apply optical imaging to various domains, from cultural heritage to the biomedical science, and has develope...

Anand Kumar

Dr. Kumar's research is focused on development and translation of novel biomedicalĀ optical techniques for preclinical and clinical applications. He has more than 15Ā years of experience in theory, modeling and experimental aspects ofĀ biological optical imaging. Over the past decade, his group has ...

Daphne Holt

Dr. Holt has studied the neural basis of psychosis throughout her career, initially in post-mortem samples and subsequently (since 2002) using neuroimaging. Using functional neuroimaging in combination with physiology, behavioral tasks and clinical assessments, she has investigated the neurocogni...

With New PET Probe, Researchers Image Fibrosis of the Lungs

The MGH Martinos Center's Pauline DĆ©sogĆØre and colleagues have described a new positron emission tomography (PET) probe that canĀ help to advanceĀ noninvasive diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis. Reported in a Science Translational MedicineĀ paper published onlineĀ today, the probe enables detection and ...

Nutrition and Brain Growth in the Developing World

The aging pickup truck bounces along a dirt road somewhere outside Bissora, one of the larger towns in the Oio region of the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau. The road, a major thoroughfare in the region, is pocked with holes. The rest of the year these would be deep and dusty. But itā€™s July ...

Contact Us

Martinos Center investigators are engaged in translational research and technology development with a range of imaging modalities. We are always happy to answer any questions you may have about the work they are conducting and how you can get involved. What would you like to do? Email us ...

The Radiochemistry Team, and Everything That Doesn’t Go Wrong

PET-MR, a multimodality imaging technique that pairs the whole-body functional imaging of positron emission tomography (PET) with the local anatomic detail and morphological information of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, shows great potential for clinical application. We still donā€™t know exactly...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

The Center's magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facilities include the following. Large-bore MRI Systems Ā * All subject bays are equipped with Blu-ray/DVD players for subject entertainment Bay 1: Siemens 3T MRI Skyra with 128ch receive capabilities and 2ch pTx This is a Siemens 3T Skyra wit...

Moving Beyond Biopsy for Liver Fibrosis

Chronic liver disease is a growing health concern in the U.S. and around the world, with links to alcoholism, diabetes and even obesity. One of the early manifestations of the disease is fibrosis, an excessive buildup of scar tissue that results from repeated injury to the liver. While its effect...

Robert Savoy

Dr. Savoy received his academic training in applied mathematics at MIT (BSĀ 1971; MS 1975) and experimental psychology at Harvard University (PhDĀ 1980). This period included 10 years of work at Polaroid Corporationā€™sĀ Vision Research Laboratory, after which he joined the newly formed RowlandĀ Instit...

AMA @ Martinos: Jon Polimeni

On Thursday, June 23, the Martinos Center's Jon Polimeni will deliver a keynote lecture at the 2022 meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) in Glasgow, Scotland. In advance of the lecture, Jon is an all-around fascinating guy, so we were thrilled when he agreed to submit to an "...

Changning Wang

Changning Wang, PhD, has a unique and broad background in molecularĀ imaging, medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences and neuroscience. AfterĀ finishing his doctoral studies, he joined Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging as aĀ research fellow and later as a trainee in the Harvard/MGH Nuclear...

Byung Hee Yoo

Dr. Byung Hee Yoo's expertise lies in ā€œtheranostic cancerĀ imaging." His research has focused on quantitative visualization ofĀ biological/physiological events. Since reporting the firstĀ peptidyl MR contrast agents, heĀ has developed a wide spectrum of additional imaging probes for theĀ quantitation ...