fMRI brown bag: November 8, 2024
Georg Oeltzschner, Phd
Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Towards open in-vivo MRS: Modern data analysis methods and infrastructure
Abstract: In-vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a powerful and versatile tool to study metabolic processes in living tissue. MRS provides unique and exciting complementary information to structural and functional imaging modalities, with many applications in clinical and neuroscientific research. Wider uptake has been slowed by a lack of accessible data acquisition and analysis infrastructure that, in turn, has led to reproducibility issues. This talk will explain how in-vivo MRS works and describe key applications, before turning towards recent advances in data processing methods that improve the integration of MRS into large-scale research studies like the Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) project.