Neuroimaging

As a near-universal component of contemporary neuroscientific inquiry, neuroimaging comprehensively crosscuts the full range of research, training, and patient care activities within the Department. Charged with the responsibility of integrating and leveraging resources to meet current and future demand for imaging capacity, the Department's Neuroimaging Group, in partnership with the Department of Radiology at the UCSD Medical Center, serves as a centralized source of expertise and guidance on the application of multimodality methods and technologies of imaging data collection. Group projects, conducted at the interdisciplinary Multimodal Imaging Laboratory, encompass functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and its manipulations for diffusion and perfusion imaging, magnetoencephalography, electroencephalography, positron emission tomography, computed tomography, in vivo optical tomography, and ultrasound imaging.

In addition, the Neuroimaging Group is developing automated algorithms for evaluation of subjects, new software for automated structure segmentation of the brain to aid assessment of regional morphometric changes, and, in collaboration with the Salk Institute/UCSD Center for fMRI, innovative MRI protocols and capabilities for measuring blood flow and enhancing medically relevant magnetic resonance contrast.

Research
James B. Brewer, MD, PhD
Jonathan D. Bui
Anders M. Dale, PhD
Anna Devor, PhD
Eric Halgren, PhD