Professor of Radiology at Columbia University and Director of Mind Research (MR), Columbia University Medical Center Truman R. Brown will present a lecture titled “Magnetic Resonance Methods for Probing Brain Metabolism and Function.” The lecture will be hosted by the Mind Research Network (MRN) on Thursday, June 26 at 12 p.m., in the MRN large conference room at 1101 Yale Blvd., N.E.
Brown has worked on the application of MR techniques in the study of human disease since 1978 and is the inventor of the technique of chemical shift imaging (CSI) that is now the method of choice for obtaining localized metabolic information at MR Centers worldwide.
He is the author of more than 150 publications on the application of CSI and other advanced MR methods to study various diseases. Since joining the Columbia faculty in 2000, he has received more than $11 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to investigate a wide range of MR applications ranging from predicting an individual patient’s tumor response to chemotherapy, developing simultaneous EEG/MRI methodology, identifying novel metabolites in radiation damage, developing superior contrast agents, developing new software for spectroscopic analysis and removing artifacts associated with patient head motion in MRI of the brain.
He has also collaborated with researchers in Alzheimer’s disease to better identify individuals at risk for developing this devastating dementia by using novel MR techniques to probe local brain anatomy and function.
For more information contact Dolores Gonzales, (505) 925-4747; e-mail: dgonzalez@mrn.org
Posted by scarr at June 23, 2008 01:42 PM