NMR Imaging and Localized Spectroscopy
From BTRR
Overview
The focus of this resource is on developing magnetic resonance (MR) methods that utilize potential advantages of ultrahigh magnetic fields for investigating human brain function, anatomy, neurochemistry, cancer detection, and cardiac physiology and biochemistry.
Current Research
Functional imaging in the human brain; mechanisms of functional contrast and specificity; applications of functional imaging in the human brain to the motor cortex, the visual system, and cognitive tasks; mapping connectivity between functional areas in the human brain using MR methods; development of B1-insensitive imaging approaches; development of new and novel B1-insensitive adiabatic pulses for spectroscopic and imaging applications using coils that are intrinsically inhomogeneous in their radiofrequency (rf) field profiles, such as surface coils; high-frequency rf interactions with human brain and body; high-field rf coil design; spectroscopic localization techniques; spectroscopic editing techniques combined with spectroscopic localization, multiple quantum techniques; improved methods for chemical shift imaging; carbon-13 and proton MR spectroscopy studies of neurochemistry in health and disease in humans and animal models; 17O imaging using high fields and applications to study cerebral energetics.
