Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Its Principle and Application to Computational Neuroanatomy

PLACE:	Clark 314
EVENT:	CIS Seminar Series
DATE:	October 5, 2004
TIME:	1:00 - 2:00

Abstract

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a new imaging modality that can reveal brain white matter anatomy which hasn’t been able to be visualized by any other imaging techniques. Although it can provide exciting new information to examine integrity of white matter and effects of diseases, it also poses new challenges to computational neuroanatomy. In this presentation, I’ll explain how DTI works and what are new possibilities and challenges to study white matter anatomy using this technology.

Brief biography

Susumu Mori is an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Department of Radiology. He holds active tenure at Kennedy Krieger Institute working in the F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Dr. Mori received his bachelors and masters degree from Tokyo University of Fisheries. In 1996, he received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in Biophysics. He also completed his post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Mori’s research interests to develop new MRI technologies to study brain neuroanatomy. His recent works include diffusion tensor imaging and microimaging to study brain white matter diseases and brain development.