For the past 15 years, Shahin Nasr, PhD, has studied the visual system of humans and non-human primates using a variety of techniques, from psychophysics and event-related potentials (ERP) to conventional and high-resolution functional MRI, in order to understand the neural mechanisms underlying ...
Search Results: Clinical Translational Research
Larry Wald Elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Larry Wald, director of the Magnetic Resonance Physics & Instrumentation Group at the MGH Martinos Center, will join the ranks of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The honor recognizes the groundbreaking work Wald has done in the field of magnetic resonance imaging, especially the i...
New Portable Scanner to Bring MRI to the Patient
A team of researchers in the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital has developed a low-cost, portable MRI scanner, reporting the device in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering on November 23. In a recent conversation, lead author Clarissa Zimmerman Cooley g...
Clarissa Cooley
Dr. Cooley's research interests lie in the development of high-impact imaging systems based on new approaches to hardware, image encoding, and signal processing. Her primary scientific contribution has been the development of a portable MRI brain scanner that uses a new image encoding technique. ...
About the Center
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qnZ4uCv1qQ[/embedyt] The Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital is one of the world’s premier research centers devoted to development and application of advanced biomedical imaging technologies. The Center i...
Uncovering ‘Covert Consciousness’ in Brain Injury Patients
In a paper published in the journal Brain last month Brian Edlow and colleagues reported a study in which they used the imaging techniques functional MRI and EEG to detect ‘covert consciousness’ in the intensive care unit. We checked in with Edlow, associate director of the Center for Neurotechno...
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...
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 aren’t 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...
Ciprian Catana
Dr. Catana is director of Integrated MR-PET Imaging at the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and a Professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School. He has extensive experience in combining PET and MRI and is currently focusing on developing quantitative MR-PET for human use. Working clo...
Matti Hämäläinen and the Music of MEG
Every Christmas back home in Finland, the Martinos Center’s Matti Hämäläinen gathers with friends for an evening of performing chamber music. He plays both flute and piano on these occasions; in more recent years he has explored the repertoire for “piano four hands” with his former classmate Laur...
Nanodiamond-enhanced MRI: A Dazzling New Approach to Imaging
Nanodiamonds – synthetic industrial diamonds only a few nanometers in size – have recently attracted considerable attention because of the potential they offer for the targeted delivery of vaccines and cancer drugs as well as for other uses. Thus far, options for imaging nanodiamonds have been li...
Yinching (Iris) Chen
Y. Iris Chen, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. She received her PhD in radiology science from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program and the department of radiol...
Malte Hoffmann
Malte Hoffmann is a faculty member in Radiology at Harvard Medical School and affiliated faculty inthe Health Sciences and Technology Division at MIT. He received a Bachelor's degree in physics fromthe University of Paris XI, and a Master's degree and PhD from the University of Cambridge, wherehe...
Kenneth Kwong
Kenneth Kwong, PhD, has been conducting magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) research for more than 30 years with expertise in diffusion (R.1), functional imaging (R.2) and perfusion imaging (R.3). He was one of the earliest researchers to explore MR diffusion imaging of healthy subjects and patients...
PET/MRI Superior to MRI Alone for Staging of Rectal Cancer
FlexNIRS Offers Needle-Free Way to Track Blood Pressure
Doctors often use an invasive catheter inside an artery to get continuous blood pressure readings during surgery, but that can be uncomfortable and risk complications. In a new study, Zahra Einalou, Maria Angela Franceschini and colleagues tested a wearable near-infrared sensor (FlexNIRS) combin...
FlexNIRS: An Open-Source, Low-Cost, Wearable Cerebral Oximeter
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,...