We are thrilled to announce the publication of 20+20 Vision: 40 Years on the Cutting Edge of Science and Care, a Martinos Center coffee table book. In 1980, a scrappy group of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital banded together to explore the potential of a recently introduced techno...
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New Bedside MRI Scanner Inspired by Martinos Center Research
Fundamental research by Professor Matthew Rosen, Director of the Low-Field Imaging Laboratory in the MGH Martinos Center, contributed to the early development of a new portable MRI scanner by Hyperfine Research Inc. The potentially game-changing technology will be introduced this week at the Amer...
Martinos Center Benefactors Honored by the Greek Orthodox Church
Many biomedical research centers have been named in honor of the donors who, through their generous support, are helping to advance work done in the particular areas of investigation. We know these donors’ names, and associate them with the research the centers produce. Less familiar to us, thoug...
Robert Savoy
Dr. Savoy received his academic training in applied mathematics at MIT (BS 1971; MS 1975) and experimental psychology at Harvard University (PhD 1980). This period included 10 years of work at Polaroid Corporation’s Vision Research Laboratory, after which he joined the newly formed Rowland Instit...
The Secret Lives Of Martinos Folk: Radio, Nerds, and Where Punk and Science Meet
When you hear the words "MIT radio station" you might imagine a group of nervous, bow tie-clad engineers crowded around a chalkboard with a Venn diagram of Roger Dean album covers and Silmarillion references. And you might be forgiven if you did. Such stereotypes of science and engineering studen...
Ultrahigh-field MRI Tracks Development of Cortical Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
The development of lesions in the brain’s cortical gray matter is a strong predictor of neurological disability for people with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study reported today in the journal Radiology. The findings suggest a role for ultrahigh-field MRI in monitoring the progression ...
Deep Learning Algorithm Can Measure Disease Severity and Change on a Continuous Spectrum
Clinicians often use imaging to evaluate both the severity and progression of disease, in many cases by assigning severity to one of several categories based on the imaging findings and seeing whether and how the classification changes on follow-up. This approach can have its limits, though. B...
The Secret Lives of Martinos Folk: Fighting Stereotypes of Women in Islam, One Karate Kick at a Time
Zeynab Alshelh has practiced karate since she was a young child growing up in Australia. For much of the time she has been involved with the sport, she has focused her efforts on the discipline known as shadow fighting, or Kata. Kata comprises a pre-arranged pattern of movements—kicks and punches...
The Radiochemistry Team, and Everything That Doesn’t Go Wrong
PET-MR, a multimodality imaging technique that pairs the whole-body functional imaging of positron emission tomography (PET) with the local anatomic detail and morphological information of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, shows great potential for clinical application. We still don’t know exactly...
Students
The Martinos Center is home to full-time Ph.D. and Master’s students in a host of disciplines: from Physics and Chemistry to Biology, Neuroscience and Psychology. The breadth of research at the Center provides many opportunities for students to find a lab that suits their interests. You can learn...
Pain Neuroimaging Night Spotlights Cutting-edge Imaging Technologies
During the 2018 World Congress on Pain in Boston last week, the Martinos Center showcased the latest advances in research into pain and the state-of-the-art technologies that make the research possible. Sponsored by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), the World Congress...
Jyrki Ahveninen Receives Mentoring Award
The Jim Thrall, MD Mentoring Award was established to recognize and honor mentoring contributions of faculty who have demonstrated sustained interest and success in mentoring junior faculty members and trainees. Last month, the Martinos Center's Jyrki Ahveninen, PhD received the award for Researc...
Lucia Navarro de Lara
My research is focused on elucidating the mechanisms of network-level brain responses to non-invasive brain stimulation methods. Based on the development of the “RF-EEG Cap”, the first-of-its-kind wearable RF head coil and the related signal processing tools, I envision a complete solution for co...
Prospective Students Experience the Martinos
Last Friday, the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging welcomed 18 prospective students from the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST). The students came to learn about educational opportunities at the Center as they look toward the next stage of their academics. The...
Nelson Gicana Receives Scholarship from Multicultural Professionals Group
The Martinos Center’s Nelson Gicana has been honored with a 2019 Association of Multicultural Members of Partners (AMMP) Scholarship Award. He accepted the award at a ceremony held on September 12. AMMP is committed to the advancement, retention, recruitment and development of multicultural pr...
Jyrki Ahveninen
Dr. Ahveninen's mission is to apply novel and improved techniques to achieve more accurate estimates of human brain function than previously achieved. His work focuses on neuroimaging of human auditory system, auditory working memory and higher-order auditory cognition using techniques including ...
Good News for PET Researchers: Radiotracer binding Is less sensitive to blood flow than previously thought
In a Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism paper published last month, the Martinos Center’s Christin Sander and colleagues resolved a longstanding question in positron emission tomography studies. PET has played a crucial role in receptor binding studies, shedding light on a range o...
Caroline Magnain Joins $17 Million Initiative to Bring More Optical Imaging Expertise to Biomedical Research
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has announced the Martinos Center's Caroline Magnain as one of 17 CZI investigators— engineers, physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and biologists with expertise in technology development — participating in a $17 million Imaging Scientists program...
Mesoscale Brain Mapping: Bridging Scales and Modalities in Neuroimaging
Recent advances both in the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and elsewhere are driving the convergence of microscopic- and macroscopic-scale study of the brain for human translational neuroscience, by developing and applying tools to study the spatial distribution and temporal orchestra...
Facilitating Integration of AI Into Radiology Practice
The Quantitative Translational Imaging in Medicine (QTIM) Lab at the MGH Martinos Center has contributed to the advancement of artificial intelligence in radiology practice in myriad ways. Not least: the group collaborated with the American College of Radiology Data Science Institute (ACR-DSI) in...