Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Technology at Stanford
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Overview
The mission of the Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Technology at Stanford is to develop innovative magnetic resonance (MR) techniques for fundamental anatomic, physiologic, and pathophysiologic studies involving animals and humans and to serve the academic and scientific community through collaborations, education, and access to center facilities and resources. Our core technology development encompasses the following six areas.
Reconstruction methods: Improved reconstruction methods and fast imaging sequences and a Web-based repository for data with a variety of k-space trajectories.
Imaging of brain activation: Susceptibility robust techniques as well as deconvolution and motion reduction methods for event relevant imaging.
Diffusion and perfusion imaging methods: Techniques for visualizing visualizing and mapping the functional aspects of tissue microvascular in diffusion, perfusion, and experimental brain activation at 1.5 T and 3 T, including tensor diffusion, exogenous and endogenous tracer perfusion, and BOLD and arterial spin-tagging techniques.
MR spectroscopy and multinuclear imaging (MRSI): Novel techniques for multivoxel two-dimensional MR spectroscopy, volumetric 1H metabolic imaging, and ultrashort TE in vivo spectroscopy and imaging.
Cardiovascular structure and function: Visualizing cardiac and vascular anatomy for quantitating blood flow and hemodynamics.
Interventional imaging methods: Improved MR thermometry in the presence of susceptibility artifacts from ablation probe, develop methods for real-time feedback of thermometry data, and integrate an X-ray fluoroscopy system with our "open" MR magnet.
