Welcome to the 7 Tesla (7T) Bioengineering Research Program (7TBRP) and the Radiofrequency (RF) Research Facility at University of Pittsburgh.
All the 7 Tesla imaging studies are performed using the Tic Tac Toe RF Coil System (60 transmit channels and 32 receive channels). The transmit channels are combined to operate in the single transmit mode of the MRI system; no adjustments are needed between subjects.
Projects Funded By the National Institute of Health (NIH)
– The RAW Brain – The Effect of Rumination, Anxiety and Worry on Aging and Dementia Risk
– Neuroimaging to identify the neural correlates of anesthetic and analgesic action in humans
– Anesthestic Modulation of Human memory during acute pain
– Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Prospective Community Study
– Menopausal Vasomotor Symptoms and Brain Aging in Women
– Neural Systems in Auditory and Speech Categorization
– Biobehavioral Studies of Cardiovascular Disease
– Neural Systems Underlying Severe Worry in Anxious Adolescents and Young Adults
– Aerobic Exercise for Optimizing Cognitive and Brain Health in Remited Late-Life Depression
– Machine Learning Models for Identifying Neural Predictors of TMS Treatment Response in MDD
– A Cerebrovascular Basis for Sex Differences in Alzheimer’s Disease Risk
– Alzheimer’s Biomarker Consortium – Down Syndrome (ABC – DS)
– Bioengineering in Psychiatry Training Program
– Synaptic Pruning and Complement Gene in Schizophrenia: Imaging & Cellular Studies
– Metabolic and Inflammatory Pathways of Midlife Neurocognitive Disparities
– Depression in dementia caregivers: Linking Brain Structure and Sleep-Wake Risks
– Dimensional Outcomes and Neural Circuitry Associated with Psychosis Risk
– High Performance Imaging for Assessment of Small Vessel Disease in Older Adults with Depression
– Biobehavioral Mechanisms Linking Personality to Health in Midlife
– Roles of Gray Matter Brain Aging and Small Vessel Disease in AD Pathophysiology
– Neural Mechanisms of Monoaminergic Engagement in Late-Life Depression Treatment Response (NEMO)
– Neural Mechanisms of Monoaminergic Engagement in Late-Life Depression Treatment Response (NEMO)
Projects Supported by Other Funding
Investigating the Link Between Pre-Clinical Alzheimer’s disease and Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction Using Functional Neuroimaging
Narrative: The goal of this pilot project is to develop a 7T functional neuroimaging program of postoperative cognitive dysfunction.
Funding Agency: University of Pittsburgh Physicians Academic Foundation
Neural Correlates of Auriculotherapy
Funding Agency: University of Pittsburgh Department of Anesthesiology Seed Grant
Neural Circuitry Resilience in Psychotic Disorders: A Multimodal Ultra-High Field Neuroimaging Study
Funding Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs
In Vivo Staging of Prodromal and Early Stage Parkinson’s Disease Pathology
Funding Agency: SOM Dean’s Faculty Advancement Award
Investigating the Link Between Pre-Clinical Alzheimer’s Disease and Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction using Functional Neuroimaging
Funding Agency: University of Pittsburgh Physicians Academic Foundation
Novel Imaging Strategies of Cerebrovascular Dysfunction in Sickle Cell Disease
Funding Agency:University of Pittsburgh Vascular Medicine Institute