TITLE:

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IN MARINE BIOLOGY (No. 65)

DATE:

Friday, February 25th, 2005

TIME:

3:30 PM

LOCATION:

GMCS 214

SPEAKER:

Lawrence Frank, Director of MR Research, VA San Diego Healthcare System, The UCSD Center for Functional MRI

ABSTRACT:

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique that allows the
non-invasive high resolution imaging of soft tissues, and has become a
standard modality in medical imaging for the visualization of anatomical structures. However, MRI is an extremely versatile technique that is sensitive to many physiological parameters, including tissue properties, flow, diffusion, perfusion, and blood oxygenation levels. It therefore hold great promise as a tool for marine biologists to study the structure and physiology of marine organisms. I will review the basic concepts of MRI, introduce the more advanced methods by which to measure physiological parameters, and show some recent work from our lab in our initial investigations on the use of MRI to image fish.

HOST:

Forest Rower

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