A novel Medical Resonance Imaging technique has been developed by an international team of researchers that can capture an image of a brain thinking by measuring changes in tissue stiffness. The results show that brain function can be tracked on a time scale of 100 milliseconds – 60 times faster than previous methods. The technique could shed new light on altered neuronal activity in brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s, dementia, epilepsy, or multiple sclerosis.
"This study has the potential to revolutionize the way scientists study brain diseases,” says Krishna Kandarpa, M.D., Ph.D., director of research science and strategic directions at NIBIB. “Developing a new MRI technique relies heavily on physics and engineering principles, which are areas in which NIBIB investigators excel. The results would have been hard to achieve without the collaboration of this team of experts.” The human…
