MRI and MRS of the human brain at magnetic fields of 14 T to 20 T: Technical feasibility, safety, and neuroscience horizons

TF Budinger, MD Bird - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
The three goals of this paper are: 1) to evaluate the improvements in technology for
increasing magnetic flux density (magnetic field) to 14 T in the next few years and eventually …

Toward 20 T magnetic resonance for human brain studies: opportunities for discovery and neuroscience rationale

TF Budinger, MD Bird, L Frydman, JR Long… - … Resonance Materials in …, 2016 - Springer
An initiative to design and build magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy
(MRS) instruments at 14 T and beyond to 20 T has been underway since 2012. This initiative …

Physical principles for scalable neural recording

AH Marblestone, BM Zamft, YG Maguire… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Simultaneously measuring the activities of all neurons in a mammalian brain at millisecond
resolution is a challenge beyond the limits of existing techniques in neuroscience. Entirely …

The role of magnetic forces in biology and medicine

BJ Roth - Experimental Biology and Medicine, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
The Lorentz force (the force acting on currents in a magnetic field) plays an increasingly
larger role in techniques to image current and conductivity. This review will summarize …

Magnetic fields from skeletal muscles: A valuable physiological measurement?

MAC Garcia, O Baffa - Frontiers in physiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
It is well known that whenever a motor unit is recruited, electrical, and mechanical events are
generated in skeletal muscle fibers. The first concerns to the action potentials propagating …

Homogenization of a coupled electrical and mechanical bidomain model for the myocardium

L Miller, R Penta - Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We propose a coupled electrical and mechanical bidomain model for the myocardium
tissue. The structure that we investigate possesses an elastic matrix with embedded cardiac …

Can MRI be used as a sensor to record neural activity?

BJ Roth - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Magnetic resonance provides exquisite anatomical images and functional MRI monitors
physiological activity by recording blood oxygenation. This review attempts to answer the …

Direct neural current imaging in an intact cerebellum with magnetic resonance imaging

P Sundaram, A Nummenmaa, W Wells, D Orbach… - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
The ability to detect neuronal currents with high spatiotemporal resolution using magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) is important for studying human brain function in both health and …

Simultaneous calcium fluorescence imaging and MR of ex vivo organotypic cortical cultures: a new test bed for functional MRI

R Bai, A Klaus, T Bellay, C Stewart… - NMR in …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, several new functional (f) MRI contrast mechanisms including diffusion, phase
imaging, proton density, etc. have been proposed to measure neuronal activity more directly …

Simulation of a synchronized methodology for MR-based electromechanical property imaging during transcranial electrical stimulation

G Flé, E Van Houten, G Gilbert, G Cloutier - Frontiers in Physics, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Recent investigations into the biomechanics of the brain have unveiled
alteration in tissue stiffness triggered by external stimuli. For instance, visual stimulation …