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Good News for PET Researchers: Radiotracer binding Is less sensitive to blood flow than previously thought
In a Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism paper published last month, the Martinos Center’s Christin Sander and colleagues resolved a longstanding question in positron emission tomography studies. PET has played a crucial role in receptor binding studies, shedding light on a range o...
Matti Hämäläinen Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of the MGH Martinos Center's Matti Hämäläinen to its College of Fellows. Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biologica...
The Center’s Eric Gale to Address Anemia of Chronic Disease in Project Funded by HMS Award
Martinos Center researcher Eric Gale, PhD, is a recipient of this year’s HMS Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Award (BTCA). The BTCA program is designed to accelerate the development of therapeutics within Harvard Medical School (HMS) and its affiliated hospitals, with the specific goal of produc...
5 Things You Didn’t Know About David Cohen and MEG
Last week the MGH Martinos Center dedicated its advanced magnetoencephalography (MEG) facility as the David Cohen MEG Laboratory. Cohen—the inventor of MEG, a leader in the field of biomagnetism for more than 50 years, and a Martinos Center faculty member who was instrumental in building and deve...
Sava Sakadzic
Dr. Sakadzic obtained his Ph.D. with Dr. Lihong Wang at Texas A&M University and completed his postdoctoral training with Dr. David Boas at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His group is developing state-of-the-art optical microscopy imaging technologies and utilizing them to better understand ...
The Secret Lives of Martinos Folk: Jake Calkins on vintage guitar amplifiers and peering into the past
Science and music may seem like entirely different disciplines, sitting on opposite sides of a dichotomy that divides the world into two types of people: left brain / right brain, logical / intuitive, and so on. But in fact, they are more similar than one might think (as are the people who practi...
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Kaisu Lankinen
Dr. Kaisu Lankinen is an Instructor at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging atMassachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is a neuroscientist with a background in biomedical engineering, specializing in advanced neuroimaging techniques such as 7 T fMRI, MEG/E...
Sheng Shen
Dr. Shen’s work focuses on advancing ultra-low field (ULF) MRI hardware, quantitative imaging techniques and ultra-low field MRI applicaiotns. He has developed novel approaches for T1 and T2 mapping at 6.5 mT to enable accessible MRI and quantitative evaluation for breast and brain. In addition, ...
From the “We Already Knew This” File: Partners Recognizes Donna Crowe’s Excellence
The Center’s Donna Crowe received a “Partners in Excellence” award for her always outstanding work as office manager and executive assistant to the director of the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. She accepted the award at a ceremony held last month. In addition to her many duties a...
Wearable, Mobile & Digital Health Technologies
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Tweets From the Front Lines
In the past few weeks, we've seen a shift in the Martinos Center's Twitter feed. Usually teeming with tweets about the latest research, upcoming conferences and occasionally the antics of someone's adorable dog, the feed is now, unsurprisingly, dominated by updates about COVID-19 and the medical ...
Home Hospital Innovation Challenge Showcases Imaging Technologies of Tomorrow
On Thursday, May 18, the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging hosted the Home Hospital Innovation Challenge: a Shark Tank-like event in which researchers pitched ideas for novel biomedical imaging technologies that could be commercialized to meet a growing call for hospital-level care provi...
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
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Radiating Kindness: Making Holiday Cards for Elderly Mass General Patients
Members of the Laboratories for Computational Neuroimaging (LCN) embraced the spirit of the season at their holiday party in December. Over hot cider and other seasonal treats, they made cards for elderly patients at Massachusetts General Hospital who were not able to go home for the holidays as ...
Jean Augustinack
The main goal of Dr. Augustinack's research is to validate neuroimaging, such as MRI, with ground truth histologic analyses and to advance neuroanatomical and pathological biomarkers for in vivo imaging. Her laboratory bridges the domains of ground truth histologic staining and MRI tissue propert...
Martinos Giving
The Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging is an outstanding research center in part because of the consistent support of foundations, industry, faculty, staff, and friends. Over the years, the Center and its faculty have benefited from the gifts of those that support our vision t...
Renzo Huber
Laurentius Huber, aka Renzo, is a PI at the Martinos Center. He is a Member of the Faculty at MGH (profile) and a Member of the Faculty of Radiology at Harvard Medical School (profile). He joined the Martinos Center in summer 2025 as the Neuroscience Director of the MGB 7T center. In this role, R...