Physics Colloquium, November 6, 2007
MRI Contrast for Watching the Brain in Action Alan Koretsky

National Institutes of Health
Director IR NINDS

MRI continues to have a growing impact for imaging the brain. Initial impact was for the diagnosis of brain disorders and over the past ten years functional MRI has revolutionized the cognitive neurosciences. Critical to this success has been a growing range of approaches used to manipulate MRI signal in order to give contrast to important processes in the brain. Coupled with steady improvements in sensitivity there continues to be rapid improvement of MRI tools that can visualize the brain. Some examples of manipulation of MRI contrast for brain imaging developed in our laboratory will be given with particular emphasis on the impact of the physical sciences on these developments.

Dr. Koretsky's Talk

Dr. Koretsky's Web Site

4:00 p.m., Physics Research Building (PRB), Room 1080

Reception at 3:45 p.m., Atrium, PRB