Overview
Group members have a wide range of expertise including magnetic resonance imaging, electromagnetic source imaging, impedance imaging, ultrasound imaging, elastic imaging, image reconstruction, image processing, image modeling, image segmentation, image visualization, and image systems, and have active research interests in neuroimaging, cardiac imaging, cancer imaging, molecular imaging, and other areas of biomedical imaging. Group members will share their individual ongoing research projects to identify any overlapping research interests and discuss potential collaborations and initiatives.
Upcoming Events
This monthly working seminar provides a campus-wide forum for exchanging idease and facilitating collaborations in the field of biomedical imaging. Presentations will cover the technological aspects of imaging science and biomedical research utilizing imaging. Speakers will include members of the group and other invited investigators within and outside of the University.
Date: Friday, September 23, 2005
Title: Seeing Brain Action By Magnetic Resonance Approaches
Speaker: Dr. Wei Chen - Professor of Radiology, CMRR, University of Minnesota
UMN Location: 450 CCRB
Time: 12:00 - 12:55 PM
Date: Friday, October 21, 2005
Title: Nonlinear Pulse-Echo Ultrasound Imaging: Imaging of microbubble ultrasound contrast agents in the microvasculature
Speaker: Dr. Emad S. Ebbini - Associate Professor, Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
UMN Location: 450 CCRB
Time: 12:00-12:55PM	Refreshments will be served from 11:40AM
Date: Monday, October 24, 2005
Title: Mechanisms of Ventricular Arrhythmias in the Failing Heart
Speaker: Steve Pogwizd, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
UMN Location: 2-101, Hasselmo Hall
Time: 3:35-4:30PM
Date: Friday, November 18, 2005
Title: Beyond MRI
Speaker: Bruce Hammer - Associate Professor, Department of Radiology
UMN Location: 450 CCRB
Time: 12:00-12:55PM	Refreshments will be served from 11:40AM
Date: Friday, December 9, 2005
Title: Quantifying Bioelectric Impedance Measurements of Cardiovascular Function
Speaker: Robert Patterson - Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Biomedical Engineering
UMN Location: 450 CCRB
Time: 12:00-12:55PM	Refreshments will be served from 11:40AM
Date: Friday, January 20, 2006
Title: Applications of NMR and MRI in the Study of Biopolymers
Speaker: Roger Ruan - Professor, Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, UMN
UMN Location: 5-125 Moos Tower
Time: 12:00-12:55PM	Refreshments will be served from 11:40AM
Date: Friday, Feburary 17, 2006
Title: Structural and functional imaging using high-speed high-resolution OCT techniques
Speaker: Taner Akkin - Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, UMN
UMN Location: 5-125 Moos Tower
Time: 12:00-12:55PM	Refreshments will be served from 11:40AM
Date: Friday, March 24, 2006
Title: Strategies for studying affective information processing in the brain
Speaker: Bruce N. Cuthbert, Professor, Department of Psychology, UMN
UMN Location: Mayo 100
Time: 12:00-12:55PM	Refreshments will be served from 11:40AM
Date: Friday, April 14, 2006
Title: Addiction Disorders: Looking Inside the Brain
Speaker: Kelvin O. Lim, Professor, Psychiatry and Vice Chair for Research, UMN
UMN Location: 5-125 Moos Tower
Time: 12:00-12:55PM	Refreshments will be served from 11:40AM
Date: Monday, April 17, 2006
Title: An overview of large scale brain physics
Speaker: Paul Nunez, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Univ. of Tulane
UMN Location: 2-101, Hasselmo Hall
Time: 3:35-4:30PM
Date: May 17, 2006
Title: Cardiac MRI - Fundamentals and Latest Development
Speaker: Dr. Yi Wang, Faculty Distinguished Professor, Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
UM Location: MCB 2-122
Time: 12-1PM
Date: September 25, 2006
Title: Functional Imaging with PET: A Revolution in Medicine
Speaker: Abass Alavi, Professor of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania
UM Location: 2-101, Hasselmo Hall
Time: 3:35-4:30PM
Date: November 7, 2006
University of Minnesota Symposium on Neuroimaging
9-9:30 AM: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain Activation
Speaker: Kamil Ugurbil, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair Professor of Radiology, Director of the Center of Magnetic Resonance Research
9:30-10AM: Brain Energy and Brain Function: A Perspective from Functional MRS Research
Speaker: Wei Chen, Professor of Radiology
10-10:30AM: Imaging the Automatic Processes in the Human Brain
Speaker: Sheng He, Associate Professor of Psychology
10:40-11:10AM: Geometric Analysis in Brain Imaging
Speaker: Guillermo Sapiro, Distinguished McKnight University Professor Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
11:10-11:40AM: Optical Imaging of Neural Activation
Speaker: Taker Akkin, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
11:40-12:10 PM: Electrophysiological Neuroimaging and Integration with Functional MRI
Speaker: Bin He, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of Biomedical Functional Imaging & Neuroengineering Laboratory
12:10-12:40 PM: Discussion on graduate training in neuroimaging (moderator: Bin He)
UM Location: Moose Tower Room 5-125
Date: Monday, December 4, 2006
Title: PET: Past, Present and Future
Speaker: Jose' V. Pardo, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, VAMC
UM Location: ME 108
Time: 1:30 - 2:45 PM
Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Title: SWIFT: A Novel and Quiet MRI Technique without Echoes
Speaker: Michael Garwood, Associate Director, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research; Lillian Quist - Joyce Henline Chair in Biomedical Research; Professor of Radiology
UM Location: ME 108
Time: 1:30 - 2:45 PM
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2007
Title: Electrophysiological Neuroimaging of Brain Activity: A Noninvasive Approach
Speaker: Bin He, PhD, Professor
UM Location: Room 2-101 Hasselmo Hall
Time: 3:35 - 4:30 P.M.
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2007
Title: Thin-Sheet Laser Imaging of the Cochlea
Speaker: Peter Santi, Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Univesity of Minnesota
UM Location: 5-125 Moos Tower
Time: 12:00-1:00PM
Date: Wednsday, April 25, 2007
Title: Biomedical and Industrial Applications of Dynamic Radiation Force of Ultrasound
Speaker: Dr. Mostafa Fatemi, Mayo Clinic, Rochester , MN
UM Location: 5-125 Moos Tower
Time: 3:30-4:30PM
Contact Information
If you are interested in becoming a member of the Biomedical Imaging Interest Group or would like to receive more information, please contact Bin He at 612.626.1115 or binhe@umn.edu.

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