Category: imaging agora

[Imaging Agora] 12/5/16 Alex Lin – “The Virtual Biopsy: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Traumatic Brain Injury”

Alex Lin is our next Imaging Agora speaker this Monday, Dec. 5 @ 4 pm in 110 Cummington Mall, Rm 245. The Virtual Biopsy: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Traumatic Brain Injury Abstract: Advances in neuroimaging provide us with greater insight to brain injury than ever before.  Magnetic resonance spectroscopy is a non-invasive method of measuring […]

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[Imaging Agora] 11/14/16 Nathan McDannold – “Towards Brain Tumor Treatment with Ultrasound Triggered Drug Delivery”

The physiology of the vasculature in the central nervous system (CNS), which includes the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and other factors, complicates the delivery of most drugs to the brain. Despite having only a partially-intact BBB, brain tumors also pose challenges to drug delivery. Different methods have been used to bypass the BBB and the “blood-tumor […]