‘Martinnovate’ Seminar Series Boosts Innovation at Martinos
Co-founders Bastien Guerin and Nikou Louise Damestani discuss the series and why it’s important to support innovation.
Bruce Rosen on the Advanced Imaging Technologies Coming to the Martinos Center
Martinos Center director Bruce Rosen, MD, PhD, describes several cutting-edge technologies that will advance research both in the center and elsewhere in the coming years.
Open-Source Tool Performs Whole-Brain Segmentation of Longitudinal MRI Scans
Martinos researchers have developed a method for whole-brain segmentation of longitudinal MRI scans that generalizes to different scanners and MRI sequences, does not put any constraints on the number or timing of follow-up scans, and can segment white matter lesions simultaneously.
Home Hospital Innovation Challenge Showcases Imaging Technologies of Tomorrow
The Shark Tank-like event presented innovative technologies including a point-of-care surgical robotic platform and a fleet of mobile MRI scanners.
The Center’s Eric Gale to Address Anemia of Chronic Disease in Project Funded by HMS Award
Gale is a recipient of the 2023 HMS Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Award.
Q&A: Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli on Managing Anxiety and Depression with Mindfulness-Based fMRI Neurofeedback
The work she describes was done in collaboration with center researcher Anastasia Yendiki and the Martinos-based Boston Adolescent Neuroimaging of Depression and Anxiety (BANDA) study.
Q&A with Eve Valera on Intimate Partner Violence and Brain Injury
Valera uses imaging and other tools to study traumatic brain injury and other impacts of intimate partner violence.
Third Somatomotor Map Distinguished in Human Cerebellum
The center’s Randy Buckner and colleagues have provided direct support for a third somatomotor map in the vermis of the cerebellum by using intensive, repeated functional MRI scanning of individuals performing movements across multiple body parts.
As an MGH Research Scholar, Brian Edlow Will Pursue Detection of ‘Covert Consciousness’ in the ICU
He will lead a team in optimizing and implementing the technique transcranial magnetic stimulation electroencephalograph (TMS-EEG).
Q&A with Caterina Mainero, Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Imaging Laboratory
Dr. Mainero discusses the lab’s research into the mechanisms of the disease and new approaches to diagnosis and monitoring.
It’s All about Teamwork: The Center’s Shahin Nasr on his breakthrough findings in the visual system
Nasr, director of the Mesovision Laboratory at the center, talks about the discovery and what made it possible.
Hemostatic Factors Have Potential as Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets in MS
The Center’s Caterina Mainero and colleagues review the interplay of fibrinogen and coagulation factors with neuroinflammation in multiple sclerosis.
Metabolomic Information Highly Useful for Predicting Future Prostate Cancer
A study by the Center’s Leo Cheng and colleagues suggests that metabolomic changes detected with an advanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy technique can differentiate between patients with benign prostate biopsies who will or will not receive a prostate cancer diagnosis over the following years.
Jyrki Ahveninen Receives Mentoring Award
The Jim Thrall, MD Mentoring Award recognizes the mentoring contributions of research as well as clinical faculty in the Mass General Department of Radiology.
How You Can Mend a Broken Heart: Emerging imaging technologies advance cardiovascular care
Recent studies from the Department of Radiology hav sought new ways to help reduce the incidence of a broken heart (and to ensure a healthy cardiovascular system).
Commentary: Sparse Brain Activity Patterns May Underlie Human Cognition
Jyrki Ahveninen and colleagues believe sparse brain activity, where only a few neurons in a population fire at a given time, might contribute to the fingerprint patterns of activity evident in multi-voxel pattern analysis results from functional MRI — and give rise to perceptual, emotional and cognitive functions.
The Martinos Center’s Got Talent!
On Wednesday, January 11, the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging will stage its first-ever talent show, aptly titled: “The Martinos Center’s Got Talent!” The event will showcase the many, varied talents of folks from… The Martinos Center’s Got Talent!
Fast fMRI Detects Specific Cascade of Thalamic Activity at Transitions in Behavioral Arousal State
The study was reported in Nature Communications by the Center’s Laura Lewis and colleagues.
FlexNIRS: An Open-Source, Low-Cost, Wearable Cerebral Oximeter
The new device was developed by Optics @ Martinos researchers Kuan-Cheng (Tony) Wu, Marco Renna and Maria Angela Franceschini.
The Clinical Potential of Molecular Imaging of Pulmonary Fibrosis
Peter Caravan PhD and Sydney Montesi MD discuss the potential of molecular imaging of pulmonary fibrosis for managing patients with interstitial lung disease and other clinical applications.