Special Lecture: Improvements in fMRI Precision and Fidelity in Time and Space
To watch via vimeo, click here
Peter Bandettini, PhD
Chief, Section on Functional Imaging Methods, National Institutes of Health
Director, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Core Facility (FMRIF), National Institutes of Health
Host: Alan Evans
Abstract: Since its inception, fMRI has shown a steady progression in precision, interpretability, and applicability due to improvements in acquisition and processing methods, as well as a wide range of multi-modal experiments demonstrating the relationship between the fMRI signal and other measures, including behavior. In this lecture, I will discuss this and show recent work from my lab highlighting the challenges, our approaches, and our applications of whole-brain, ultra-high resolution, cortical depth resolved fMRI. I will also demonstrate our recent work probing the spatial and temporal characteristics of spontaneous fMRI fluctuations as well as the unique advantages of high-speed, event-related decoding. Lastly, I will show preliminary and perhaps hopeful simultaneous EEG/fMRI studies that aim to use fMRI for direct detection of transient neuronal activity.
Peter Bandettini's lecture is made possible by contributions from the Quebec Bio-Imaging Network (QBIN/RBIQ) and the Polytechnique Montréal, with help from the Events team at The Neuro.