Don Straney isn't slowing down during the COVID-19 pandemic. A staff electrical engineer with the Martinos Center's human imaging core, Straney is volunteering with two different projects responding to the crisis. With the Charlestown Face Shield Project, he is forming face shield visors to donat...
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Martinos on the Front Lines: Mary O’Hara and Larry White
Last week, Mary O'Hara and Larry White, senior MR technicians at the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, redeployed to the main campus of MGH, where they are performing portable X-ray scans of COVID-19 patients in ICUs. Mary reported back with a harrowing and heartbreaking account of what...
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...
Maria Angela Franceschini Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Maria Angela Franceschini, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology at the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, to its College of Fellows. Franceschini was nominated, reviewed and elected by...
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...
Redeployment During the COVID-19 Pandemic
On Monday, April 6, as MGH prepared for the expected surge in COVID-19 patients, the hospital's leadership announced the likely redeployment of significant numbers of non-clinical workers. MGH had now entered the "all hands on deck" phase of the pandemic, where the need for additional support sta...
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
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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...
Randy Gollub Named Chair-Elect of OHBM, Floats Idea of Ska Band’s Return
The Martinos Center’s Randy Gollub has been elected to be the next Chair of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), an international society launched by Center researchers a quarter century ago. She is delighted to be able to step into the role: not least because of the many “resonanc...
NIH-Funded Experts Offer New Guidance for Navigating Ethical and Legal Challenges in Brain Research Using Portable MRI Technologies
The expanding deployment of highly portable MRI (pMRI) technology for brain research outside the hospital to more remote settings is helping to expand research participation with underserved populations and ensure more inclusive research participation. But the rapid development of pMRI technology...
The Secret Lives Of Martinos Folk: Radio, Nerds, and Where Punk and Science Meet
When you hear the words "MIT radio station" you might imagine a group of nervous, bow tie-clad engineers crowded around a chalkboard with a Venn diagram of Roger Dean album covers and Silmarillion references. And you might be forgiven if you did. Such stereotypes of science and engineering studen...
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...
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...
Teppei Matsubara
Since joining the Department of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2019, Teppei Matsubara has worked under Dr. Steven Stufflebeam at the Martinos Center, where he applies his expertise as a board-certified neurosurgeon and epileptologist to clinical neuroimaging, particularly with MEG...
The Secret Lives of Martinos Folk: Ara Mahar and the Art of Kimono
One day when they were in college, Ara Mahar volunteered to help at an international fashion show. They were president of their school’s Japanese culture club and excited to contribute to the event, which would expose people to the cultures not only of Japan, but of other countries from around th...
Facilitating Integration of AI Into Radiology Practice
The Quantitative Translational Imaging in Medicine (QTIM) Lab at the MGH Martinos Center has contributed to the advancement of artificial intelligence in radiology practice in myriad ways. Not least: the group collaborated with the American College of Radiology Data Science Institute (ACR-DSI) in...
Martinos Responds: Nurse practitioner Amy Kendall redeploys to help with COVID-19 study
The Martinos Center's Amy Kendall wanted to contribute to the COVID-19 response. When imaging studies at the Center were put on hold for social distancing reasons, she asked if she could be redeployed to the Ragon Institute at MGH, MIT and Harvard to help with a biospecimen repository study with ...
BrainMap
The BrainMap seminar series is offered by and for researchers using neuroimaging to study brain structure and function. Presented by invited speakers from around the world, as well as by investigators who call the Martinos Center home, the talks cover the gamut of topics - with a particular focus...
Translational Research Award Goes to Optics Division Investigator
Parisa Farzam, a postdoctoral fellow in the Martinos Center Optics Division, received the 2017 Translational Research Award this week at the annual Photonics West meeting in San Francisco. In accepting the award at the Translational Research lunch forum on Sunday, Farzam described a new techno...
Understanding the Patient-Clinician Relationship with ‘Hyperscanning’ fMRI
The quality of the patient-clinician relationship is widely held to impact a patient’s response to treatment. Exactly how, though, has long remained a mystery. In a study reported in October 2020, Martinos Center researchers began to explore the questions of which parts of the brain and which typ...