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Seminario Visiting Professor del Centenario: "High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Neurosciences" - Prof. Gisela E. Hagberg
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"High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Neurosciences"
Prof. Gisela E. Hagberg
University of Tübingen (Germany), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Germany)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a highly versatile tool for studying the human brain, since it builds upon several parameters. These magnetic properties are linked with different aspects of tissue structure and function. The evolution of the MRI signal in time is key to obtain contrast-rich images and to quantify magnetic properties of the tissue. Several approaches, such as T1 weighted or functional MRI, have already gained widespread use in neuroscience. Others, such as quantitative susceptibility mapping which is sensitive to the presence of iron, calcifications, myelin and blood oxygenation, are still emerging. Although MRI can be performed at magnetic field strengths of 1.5 Tesla or below, image quality at high fields of 7 Tesla or more is substantially improved. Signals from brain structures located very closely in space, much less than a millimeter, can be separated from each other, and the tissue contrast is higher allowing increased specificity. High Field MRI thus opens up new possibilities, not just to characterize healthy tissue, but also to investigate and quantify disease-related changes in brain microstructure such as those occurring in Alzheimer’s.
Luogo:
Aula A, Dipartimento di Fisica
Promotore:
Prof. Renata Longo (UniTS)
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Short bio:
Gisela E. Hagberg was trained in Engineering Physics (MSc) at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland and at Lund University, Sweden. She did her PhD studies on Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of the human brain at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland. After a few post-doc years devoted to pharmacokinetics and Positron Emission Tomography, she was head of Physics in the Neuroimaging Laboratory at the IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia and also received training in Medical Physics at the Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. Currently, she is a scientist and lecturer in Biomedical Magnetic Resonance at the Medical Faculty of the Eberhard Karl’s University of Tübingen in Germany and is also affiliated with the High Field Magnetic Resonance Department of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. Her research interests lie in the field of neuroimaging applications, from MR-physics and image reconstruction to data analysis and limits of MRI interpretation. She currently pursues research on quantitative MRI at high magnetic field strengths to study brain microstructure in health and disease.
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