Measuring the electrical properties of brain tissues in MRI may provide a new powerful tool for studying brain function. Our research focuses on developing and establishing new ways to probe brain function based on electrical properties, combining it with high temporal and spatial resolution imaging methods.
Our lab develops dedicated MRI and fMRI methods for high temporal and spatial resolution application. This envolves hands-on pulse sequence development, simulations of the spins' behavior and EM simulations of RF field distribution. Translating the new methods for human imaging, we also develop phantoms to examine high resolution and special mimicking brain phantoms.
There is a continuous effort to improve the signal in MRI, especially vital while developing new biomarkers and achieving higher resolution. Studying specially designed artificial materials or also called metamaterials (combining conducting strips and high permittivity dielectric material), we explore new capabilities of enhancing local sensitivity of MRI signal and resulting imaging resolution.
