MRI Research Group Research Topics in Progress

Research Projects and Examples:

Development of echo planar and spiral scan techniques for "snap shot" imaging on 1.5T and 3.0T MRI scanners; development of MRI methods for functional imaging of tumor physiology based on oxygenation susceptibility and/or flow effects at high fields.

Applications of functional MRI in neuroscience: language, reading, attention, memory, visual processing, sensorimotor
systems, physiological and functional difference between the normal and deaf subjects.

New applications of Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) in animals and humans:

development of DW-EPI techniques at 1.5 whole-body scanner and 9.4T small-bore scanner. Imaging of tumor oxygenation Development of intermolecular multiple-quantum coherence (iMQC) MR imaging technique.

Research Supports:

National Institutes of Health
University of Rochester
Consortium on HIV MRS studies