From Millimeters to Micrometers: Bridging Across Tissue Scales with MRI
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The Advanced Imaging Technologies Specialized Research Group in the UCSF Department of Radiology Invites the Research Community to a special lecture by Dr. Dmitry S. Novikov:
"From Millimeters to Micrometers: Bridging Across Tissue Scales with MRI".
This lecture is hosted by Dan Vigernon, PhD, AIT-SRG Director and Christopher Hess, MD, PhD, Chair, UCSF Radiology.
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The Advanced Imaging Technologies Specialized Research Group in the UCSF Department of Radiology Invites the Research Community to a special lecture by Dr. Dmitry S. Novikov:
"From Millimeters to Micrometers: Bridging Across Tissue Scales with MRI".
This lecture is hosted by Dan Vigernon, PhD, AIT-SRG Director and Christopher Hess, MD, PhD, Chair, UCSF Radiology.
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Center for Biomedical Imaging
Department of Radiology
Abstract:
Imaging tissue microstructure with MRI aspires to quantify micrometer scale tissue features within millimeter-scale imaging voxels, in vivo. The possibility of achieving such super-resolution has fueld the synergies between biomedical imaging and modern mathematics and physics methods.
This talk will highlight a few such synergies. The concept of coarse-graining over the diffusion length scale helps identify and quantify the signatures of neuronal microstructure; random matrix theory results in a noise removal methodology that helps increase the imaging resolution and make MRI more sensitivea nd specific. Rethinking the MRI pipelne, from noise removal at the acquisition level to biophysical modeling, its validation and clinical translation, is transforming MRI into a measurement instrument of tissue properties at a cellular level.