Here are some highlights of the research done at the Yerkes Imaging Center (Click tabs above for details)
- TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT OF MRI TECHNIQUES
- Diffusion-tensor imaging
- Awake monkey fMRI
- Quantitative perfusion imaging
- Manganese-enhanced MRI
- Image data analysis and visualization
- Blood volume, blood flow and oxygenation MRI
- Functional MRI
- STROKE APPLICATIONS
- Diffusion, perfusion and functional imaging of stroke
- Predictive model of stroke
- Non-human primate models of stroke
- RETINA APPLICATIONS
- Anatomical, functional and physiological imaging of the retina
- Diabetic retinopathy and degenerative retinal disease
- GENERAL NEUROSCIENCE APPLICATIONS
- Mapping columnar and lamina structures in the cortices
- High-resolution structural, perfusion and functional imaging of normal and diseased rhesus and chimp
- TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF OPTICAL TECHNIQUES
- Speckle and intrinsic optical imaging
- Normal physiology and physiological perturbations