Functional and Anatomical Imaging Research
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Description
POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY
- Development and validation of compartmental models to quantify physiological information
- Spectral Analysis methods
- Development of population and Bayesian approaches for quantitative brain imaging
- Imaging genomics: integration of functional images of receptor density with brain mRNA
- Development of methods for voxel-wise quantification
- Arterial input function modeling studies
- Application of models and methods for the quantification of PET data in different systems of interest as, for instance: microglia activation in healthy subjects and patients affected by schizophrenia (targeted with [11C]PBR28), cerebral protein synthesis (L-[1-11C]leucine), proliferation ([11C]FLT), glucose metabolism ([18F]FDG), acetylcholinesterase activity ([11C]MP4A), receptor studies: dopaminergic, serotoninergic, adenosinergic, opioid and GABAergic systems targeted with [11C]FLB457, [11C]befloxatone, [11C]WAY100635, [11C]MDL100907, [11C]SCH442246, [11C]DPN, [11C]Ro15-4513.
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
- Quantitative analysis of dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced MR images, DSC-MRI
- Deconvolution methods for perfusion quantification from Arterial Spin Labeling
- Arterial Spin Labelling MRI pulse sequence developing and modelling
- Functional and effective connectivity from fMRI in resting state
- Susceptibility Weighted Imaging and Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM)
- Multi Shells DTI
- Lesion detection from DIR and FLAIR images
ULTRASOUND IMAGES
- Development of methods for the kinetic analysis of ultrasound images
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