This federal Project Grant award for $103,441, awarded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286), aims to develop and validate a rapid, distortion- and blurring-free, and motion- and B0-robust technique for submillimeter-resolution T2* and quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) quantification. The project, titled "Fast and Robust...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $1,758,475 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), to develop next-generation in-vivo diffusion MRI (DMRI) technologies. The project aims to overcome key challenges with current DMRI methods, including lack of sensitivity to detect...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) has awarded a $306,203 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to Resonance Research Inc. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, supports the development of an advanced, digitally-controlled multiband shimming system for improved neuroimaging using high-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners. The goal is to create a...
This $884,573 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286), is supporting the development of a fast, comprehensive brain MRI technique. The goal is to reduce exam duration by roughly three-fold while capturing quantitative and qualitative MRI contrasts, as well as gadolinium-based enhancement. The project is being led by...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $390,616 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to the Regents of the University of Michigan for the development of layer-specific functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques for clinical 3 Tesla scanners. The goal is to improve signal-to-noise ratio and reduce scan time for layer-specific fMRI, which currently...
This $1,336,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the CFDA 93.286 "Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health" program supports the development of a rapid, motion-robust, and low-gadolinium MRI technology for pediatric brain tumors. The key objectives are to (1) develop cutting-edge technologies for rapid, motion-robust, and quantitative MRI scans to reduce sedation needs...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $111,119 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to New York University School of Medicine. The funding will support the development of a novel "Zero-Shell Imaging" (ZSI) technique to significantly accelerate the acquisition of high-resolution diffusion MRI data while maintaining image quality and microstructural...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $432,749 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The grant supports the development of a "Silent Functional MRI Using Looping Star" technology, which aims to create a quiet, motion-robust functional MRI (fMRI) acquisition capable of achieving commonly used spatial and...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $1,360,447.52 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), to develop and evaluate an inexpensive, lightweight "brain monitor" device using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology. The goal is to create a portable MRI-based...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $588,880 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to The Children's Hospital Corporation (doing business as Boston Children's Hospital) to develop fast and accurate methods for reconstructing 3D fetal brain volumes from 2D MRI scans. The goal is to integrate these coherent 3D brain volumes and automated brain biometric...