Mentor Areas
I have experience in many modalities of optical neuroimaging/neuromonitoring. A particular current focus is neuroimaging statistics. We are interested in models of pediatric acute illness including congenital heart disease, prematurity, stroke, cardiac arrest, and metabolic encephalopathy. Current collaborations include the laboratories Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas, Wes Baker, and Taki Shinohara.
Description:
Many pediatric diseases that were once universally fatal (e.g., complex congenital heart disease and extreme prematurity) now have relatively good survival rates. However, neurodevelopmental outcomes have improved only marginally over time. Improving outcomes in these children requires a better understanding of the underlying injury mechanisms and the development of methods that can provide earlier diagnosis. The Optical Neuroimaging Lab aims to address these problems through the development of novel optical neuroimaging systems and algorithms.
Members of the lab develop optical neuroimaging methods, such as optical intrinsic signal imaging (OIS) and diffuse optical tomography (DOT), in order to provide advanced functional neuroimaging in both animal models of disease and at the bedside. They combine these optical techniques with analysis of resting-state hemodynamics in order to perform functional connectivity brain mapping and to better understand cerebral metabolism.
The Optical Neuroimaging Lab's goal is to collaborate broadly with other laboratories and clinicians in order to explore functional neuroimaging biomarkers of injury in many pediatric diseases.
Preferred Qualifications
Our work involves advanced imaging processing through custom-built pipelines. Thus, prior coding experience is necessary to allow analysis. Our code is primarily in MATLAB, but this could be picked up easily with other prior coding experience. Generally, undergraduates are working with data analysis and not the actual animal studies, so skills with or a desire to work with animals is not required.
Project Website
Learn more about the researcher and/or the project here. https://www.research.chop.edu/optical-neuroimaging-laboratory
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