Imaging Inside the Body 2018

Date: 

Friday, November 16, 2018, 3:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge MA

RCC is pleased to announce the second edition of the Imaging Inside the Body open house organized by RCC Fellow Angel Torrado Carvajal, Research Fellow at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

This open house is open to the general public. Those curious about how new technological and clinical advances are having a major impact in the medical imaging field are welcome to attend. Students of all levels are particularly welcome at these seminars as they will be targeted to researchers and aspiring researchers interested in the field of medical imaging.

Several speakers from different Harvard affiliated institutions will give short talks about their recent findings in the field of medical imaging. Final program coming soon.

Sponsors: RCC; MGH/HST Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.

Contact: Angel Torrado-Carvajal

Program:

15:00 Opening

Angel Torrado-Carvajal, PhD (https://rcc.harvard.edu/people/angel-torrado-carvajal)

Research Fellow, Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Research Fellow, Neuroinflammation and Pain Imaging Laboratory, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA

15:10 Imaging Neuroinflammation in the Human Brain

Marco L Loggia, PhD (https://scholar.harvard.edu/loggia/marco)

Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Director, Neuroinflammation and Pain Imaging Laboratory, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA

Associate Director, Center for Integrative Pain NeuroImaging (CIPNI), Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA

15:25 Deep Learning for Image-Based Profiling

Juan C. Caicedo, PhD (https://personal.broadinstitute.org/anne/people.html)

Research Fellow, Imaging Platform, Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

15:40 Non-Invasive Detection of Critically-Low White Cell Levels in Chemotherapy Patients Using Optical Imaging

Carlos Castro-Gonzalez, PhD (http://www.mitlinq.org/portfolio-item/carlos-castro-gonzalez/)

Co-founder & CEO, Leuko Labs Inc., Boston, MA

M+Visión Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

15:55 Using fMRI to Optimize Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation

Roberta Sclocco, PhD (https://scholar.harvard.edu/napadow/people/roberta-sclocco-phd)

Research Fellow, Center for Integrative Pain NeuroImaging (CIPNI), Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA

Research Fellow, Department of Radiology, Logan University, Chesterfield, MO

16:10 Harmonization of CT Scans in Multicenter Studies

Gonzalo Vegas Sanchez-Ferrero, PhD (https://acil.med.harvard.edu/people/gonzalo-vegas-sanchez-ferrero)

Instructor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Research Fellow, Applied Chest Imaging Lab, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

16:25 Diffusion Imaging in Psychiatry: Big data, Biotypes and Beyond

Sinead Kelly, PhD (https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/157201)

Instructor in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Instructor in Psychiatry, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

16:40 Break

17:00 PET Imaging in Alzheimer’s Disease Research

Julie Price, PhD (https://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/user/3482467)

Professor of Radiology,

Director of PET Pharmacokinetic Modeling, Martinos,

17:15 A Human Memory Circuit Derived from Brain Lesions Causing Amnesia

Michael Ferguson, PhD (http://tmslab.org/aboutus-fellows-ferguson.php)

Research Fellow, Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Research Fellow, Laboratory for Brain Network Imaging and Modulation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

17:30 Assessment of Placental Health with MRI

Esra Abaci Turk, PhD (https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/145757)

Research Fellow, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

17:45 Throwing Some Light Onto The Heart: A Simultaneous PET/MR Vision of Cardiovascular Disease Imaging

David Izquierdo-Garcia, PhD (https://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/user/8521)

Instructor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Assistant in Biomedical Engineering, Integrated MR-PET Laboratory, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA

18:00 Monitoring Neural Signalling by MRI

Ali Barandov, PhD (http://scripts.mit.edu/~jasanofflab/page.php?cat=2)

Research Fellow, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

18:15 Magnetic Nanoparticle Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Type 1 Diabetes

Jason Gaglia. MD, MMSc (https://www.joslin.org/care/Jason-Gaglia-MD-MMSc.html)

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Director Hood Center for Prevention of Childhood Diabetes, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA

18:30 Closing Remarks

Angel Torrado-Carvajal, PhD (https://rcc.harvard.edu/people/angel-torrado-carvajal)

Research Fellow, Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Research Fellow, Neuroinflammation and Pain Imaging Laboratory, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA

18:40 Networking