This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $600,000 to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) to add ultra-high performance magnetic field gradients and amplifiers to a 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy research scanner. This new equipment will dramatically improve the quality of neuroimaging data, enabling enhanced diffusion tractography, functional MRI, and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $2,000,000 to fund the acquisition of a next-generation Siemens 7 Tesla (7T) whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The new 7T MRI system will replace MGH's existing 22-year-old prototype 7T scanner, which is no longer serviceable or supported by the...
This $2,000,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will fund the upgrade of a preclinical horizontal 14T MRI magnet at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Martinos Center. Specifically, the grant will support the purchase of a new 15.2T Bruker MRI magnet to replace the outdated 14T system, enhancing the Center's high-resolution anatomical and functional brain and whole-body imaging capabilities...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $156,656 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants) to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), for the project "ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MRI OF CEREBRAL CORTICAL LAYERS IN THE HUMAN BRAIN USING ULTRAHIGH-RESOLUTION LINESCAN MRI TECHNOLOGY". The project aims to advance "linescan fMRI" technology to enable high-resolution mapping of brain activity across...
This five-year, $3.74 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund the development of a next generation 9.4 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging system for translational neuroscience research. Awarded on September 1, 2021 to the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc., which will perform the work through its Nathan S. Kline Institute division, the grant will support the construction and optimization of an advanced...
This $1,596,935 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports the commercialization of Petcoil, Inc.'s portable, brain-dedicated positron emission tomography (PET) insert system that can be used in existing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines. The goal is to develop a lower-cost solution for simultaneous PET/MRI brain imaging compared to current permanently-integrated PET/MRI systems, which...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health (CFDA 93.286) program, aims to develop next-generation in-vivo diffusion MRI (dMRI) technologies. The $1,117,458 award to The General Hospital Corporation (Massachusetts General Hospital) will fund research to overcome key technical challenges in achieving high-spatial-resolution, high-sensitivity dMRI...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $446,490 to Esperimage LLC to develop flexible and scalable photogrammetric head modeling tools to complement their wearable, high-fidelity optical brain imaging technology. The goal is to enable naturalistic brain imaging studies, particularly in children with autism spectrum disorder, to overcome the limitations of previous neuroimaging...
This is a Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). The $830,409 award to Brigham & Women's Hospital will fund the development of novel software and computational techniques that integrate real-time navigated electric-field mapping and source-space electroencephalogram (EEG) analysis during transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to improve the accuracy of targeting and dosimetry for...
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). The grant will fund the purchase of a TissueVision TissueScope 1600FC Serial Two-Photon Tomography (STPT) microscope system to enable high-throughput, high-resolution automated imaging of whole, uncleared rodent brains and spinal cords. This advanced imaging system will complement and...