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EPSRC HealthcareTechnologies Visit

EPSRC Healthcare Technologies team visit Warwick

EPSRC’s Healthcare Technologies team visited Warwick on 30th April 2015 to tell us more about their new Strategy and to find out more about the range of healthcare technology related research across the campus at Warwick.

Thu 09 Jul 2015, 10:44 | Tags: EPSRC health Health GRP S&T for Health technology

Karla Miller, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, FMRIB, University of Oxford

Professor Miller’s group develops novel methods for acquiring, reconstructing and analyzing MRI scans of the brain. Her early research focused on techniques for studying brain function and connectivity. More recently, she has also begun to develop techniques for studying tissue microstructure with MRI. MRI is a powerful method for studying the human brain non-invasively; however, current methods suffer from limitations of both sensitivity and specificity. She is leading several projects that aim to address some of the shortcomings of the current generation of MRI techniques. They are developing methods to measure aspects of tissue microstructure that are central to neuronal health and disease. They further aim to improve understanding of MRI data in living subjects by comparing scans of post-mortem brains donated to tissue banks with microscopy in the same tissue. Finally, using ultra-high-field MRI scanners and sophisticated signal processing methods, they are developing fast functional MRI acquisition techniques, specifically aimed at measures of brain connectivity. These methods will enable neuroscientists to study the brain with greater precision. Her group is actively involved in collaborations with neuroscience colleagues in Oxford and elsewhere to study neuronal health and disease.

Thu 05 Feb 2015, 14:44 | Tags: Health GRP MIN MRI technology