We develop new ways to measure metabolically active chemicals with MRI in order to understand the dynamic chemistry of the human brain. Our particular interests are in "multi-voxel" or spectroscopic imaging, and measuring dynamically changing processes. We create new MR techniques and publish software to do this.
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a non-invasive technique that measures small metabolically active chemicals in the brain or in other parts of the body. It can be used to evaluate physiology and function of the tissue since it provides unique information on the chemical composition of the brain.
OxCIN's primary research goals in MRS are to develop new technology for imaging the chemistry in interconnected structures in the brain, and how that chemistry changes whent he brain is active, or learns, or is changed in disease.
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This research is conducted as part of the Physics Group at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging.
