Last month, the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging hosted a special symposium celebrating the 20th anniversary of 7T MRI at MGH. The symposium featured talks and stories and other reminiscences from many of the creators and earliest users of the Center's first-of-its-kind ult...
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Understanding Eye-contact Avoidance in People With Autism
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have difficulty looking others in the eyes. This is typically interpreted as a sign of social and personal indifference, but self-reports from people with autism suggests otherwise. Many say that looking others in the eye is uncomfortable or s...
ISMRM 2024 Honors and Awards
The 2024 annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) is now in the books. We are thrilled to recognize here the many Martinos researchers who received honors and awards this month in Singapore. (Please just let us know if we've missed anyone.) Congratula...
The Center’s Yingying Ning Recognized for Her Work on Imaging Tissue Fibrogenesis
Yingying Ning, a postdoctoral fellow in the Caravan Lab at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, received the Young Investigator Award at the World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) last month. The award recognizes Dr. Ning’s robust work in developing molecular magnetic resonance (MR) pr...
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...
Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 Imaging Is Coming to the Martinos Center
The MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging has received NIH funding to purchase a carbon-13 polarizer for translational and clinical metabolic imaging research. The instrument will be part of a new initiative in Hyperpolarized Imaging Program directed by Yi-Fen Yen, assistant professor of rad...
Yi-Fen Yen
Over the past two decades, Dr. Yen has devoted herself to the development of advanced MRI techniques, for hyperpolarized metabolic imaging, cancer imaging and functional imaging in clinical and pre-clinical research. She is an MR physicist with >100 publications in peer-reviewed scientific jou...
‘Women in Science’ Series Tackles Sexism, Other Issues
The MGH Martinos Center’s first-ever “Women in Science” seminar series, held this spring, brought together investigators, staff and others from throughout the community for a host of important and thought-provoking discussions. The series proved so successful the organizers are planning to hold a...
The (Totally True) Legend of Thomas Witzel and the Ultrahigh-field MRI Quench
Sometimes we get the hero we need. In the summer of 2017, the 7T MRI scanner at the MGH Martinos Center suffered a quench: a sudden loss of superconductivity resulting in a complete loss of the scanner’s magnetic field. In short, it broke. Without a magnetic field, the instrument was inoperabl...
Crowds Cure Cancer at RSNA 2017
Can crowdsourcing provide us with a cure for cancer? We hope to find out. Join us in an experiment at the RSNA annual meeting next week, where just a few minutes of your time could move us closer to this ever-elusive goal. Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning have broad pot...
Jason Stockmann
Jason Stockmann, PhD, is broadly interested in magnetic resonance imaging hardware and acquisition methods for improving data quality for both structural and functional imaging. He has worked on diverse MRI scanners ranging in field strength by two orders of magnitude, from low-field (80 mT) to u...
All in a Day’s Work: Veronica Clavijo Jordan on tackling cancer and crowdfunding molecular imaging research
As a child in La Paz, Bolivia, Veronica Clavijo Jordan was intrigued by science and medicine. “I used to love astronomy and biology,” she says. “I particularly remember loving the biology classes where we had lab and learned about anatomy.” Today, as an instructor in the MGH Martinos Center in Ch...
White Matter Changes Could Predict Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease is diagnosed based on abnormal pathology of two proteins in the brain: amyloid and tau. Research suggests, however, that other factors may also play a role. In a paper published online this week in the journal Neurology, a team of investigators at the Athinoula A. Martinos Cen...
Treating Aneurysm with MR Coagulation
A team of investigators in the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, in collaboration with medical device company Robin Medical, has developed a new method that could help to address cerebral aneurysm while adding therapeutic capabilities to magnetic resonance imaging. Cerebral aneurysm,...
Ken Kwong and the Introduction of Noninvasive fMRI
In the early months of 1992 the neuroscience community was flush with excitement. Jack Belliveau, a graduate student with the MGH-NMR Center (now the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging), had recently published in Science his pioneering work with functional MRI, and the possibilities of th...
REACH for BRAIN: Improving Recruitment, Engagement, and Access for Community Health Equity for Human Neuroimaging Research
In September 2023, the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging saw installation of “Connectome 2.0,” a state-of-the-art MRI scanner for imaging of structural connections within the human brain—in fact, the most advanced such scanner in the world. Led by Susie Huang, MD, PhD, a neuroradiolo...
The Secret Lives of Martinos Folk: It’s Gonna Be a Lot Less Spooky Around Here
If you were in Building 149 of the Martinos Center on any given Halloween in the past decade, you might have come across a possibly startling scene: a nine-foot, anthropomorphic volcano wandering the halls; a moth-man with large, glowing eyes posing for photos; or maybe just a huge globule of glu...
A New Optical Imaging Tool to Visualize Disease Through ‘Multiplexing’
A team of investigators at the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging has developed a tool that will allow researchers to measure multiple biological components or processes at the same time, opening up a host of applications, especially related to the study of disease. They describe the tool...
Artificial Intelligence Improves Treatment Monitoring in Patients with Glioma
This year, some 78,000 primary brain and other central nervous system (CNS) cancers will be diagnosed in the US alone. Researchers are actively developing new therapies for glioma, the most common type of primary brain tumor, but challenges remain in assessing whether patients are responding to t...
Early Screening of ASD With a New Eye-tracking Paradigm
Studies have shown that early diagnosis and intervention significantly impact the prognosis of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): the earlier the detection and diagnosis, the better the prognosis and functional status later in life. Currently, the average age of diagnosis is approxi...