Project Grant R44NS063537

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 $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 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), under CFDA Program 93.286 "Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health", supports the development of a fast, comprehensive brain MRI technique. The $884,573 award aims to create an 8-minute brain MRI exam that captures a variety of quantitative and qualitative MRI contrasts, as well as time-resolved gadolinium-based enhancement, in order to...

This 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), will support the development of a silent, whole-brain functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) acquisition method called Looping Star. The $432,749 project, which runs from March 1, 2025 to January 31, 2029, aims to design and optimize the Looping Star fMRI acquisition to...

This Project Grant award of $1,117,458, provided 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), supports the development of next-generation in-vivo diffusion MRI (DMRI) technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The project aims to create novel DMRI acquisition methods that can achieve significant signal-to-noise ratio gains, high robustness...

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $417,150 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to the University of Maryland, Baltimore to develop and validate a novel motion correction technique for 2D T2-weighted structural MRI of the brain. The key goals are to: 1) Develop a fast MR-based "slice velocity" navigator to measure through-plane translational...

This $497,196 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program supports the development of a novel magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) pulse sequence at 3 Tesla. The goal is to simultaneously map both downfield and upfield proton metabolic signals in the human brain, which may provide important new insights into brain metabolism....

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), awarded a $380,375 Project Grant to Ceretype Neuromedicine Inc. to design and develop an advanced functional MRI (fMRI) software platform as a medical device for use in clinical trials and therapeutic applications in neuropsychiatry. The key objectives of this Fast-Track SBIR project are to: 1) Engineer an fMRI system for industry-backed trials that meets regulatory requirements...

This 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), provides $185,625 to The General Hospital Corporation (doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital) to develop a novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) excitation technique. The project aims to address the flip angle inhomogeneity problem in high-field 7 Tesla MRI...

This 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), will fund the development of rapid, robust, and accurate methods to reconstruct coherent 3D fetal brain volumes from 2D clinical MRI scans. The $588,880 award to The Children's Hospital Corporation (Boston Children's Hospital) aims to integrate these reconstructed volumes and...