Event
Brain-Based Systems Seminar: Peter Basser, "Developments in Microstructural Imaging of the Brain"
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
1146 A V Williams
Jonathan Simon
jzsimon@umd.edu
Brain-Based Systems Seminar
Developments in Microstructural Imaging of the Brain
Peter Basser, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
Director, Program on Pediatric Imaging and Tissue Sciences
Chief, Section on Tissue Biophysics and Biomimetics
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institutes of Health
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Roundtable
4 p.m.; 1146 A V Williams
Host
Jonathan Simon
Biography
Peter Basser received his A.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University, and then received his postdoctoral training in Bioengineering as a Staff Fellow within the Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Branch (BEIP), NIH. In 1997, Dr. Basser became Chief of the Section on Tissue Biophysics and Biomimetics (STBB), NICHD and is currently the Director of the Program on Pediatric Imaging and Tissue Sciences, NICHD. Dr. Basser's group is primarily known for its invention, development, and clinical implementation of MR diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and for explaining the physical basis of magnetic stimulation of nerve fibers. More recently, STBB has been developing a wide array of quantitative in vivo MRI methods, including AxCaliber MRI for measuring the axon diameter distribution within nerve fascicles, and double Pulsed-Field Gradient (dPFG) MRI for studying microstructural features of both gray and white matter.
