2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Feasibility study of an Ultra Low-field functional MagneticResonance Imaging system (ULF-fMRI)
| Project/Area Number |
23650221
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Fusional brain recording science
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| Research Institution | Kanazawa Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
HIGUCHI Masanori 金沢工業大学, 先端電子技術応用研究所, 教授 (50288271)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
OYAMA Daisuke 金沢工業大学, 先端電子技術応用研究所, 講師 (60569888)
KAWAI Jun 金沢工業大学, 先端電子技術応用研究所, 教授 (10468978)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Keywords | 超低磁場核磁気共鳴画像装置 / 機能的 MRI / 脳機能情報 / ULF-fMRI / スピンエ コー法 / NMR / SQUID / 脳神経活動 |
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| Research Abstract |
Recently, many studies of ultra low-field magnetic resonance imaging by using superconducting sensors have been reported. This brand-new technology has a potential to obtain functional information of a human brain (ULF-fMRI). A problem is that the frequency of the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signal becomes extremely low and this causes difficulties to reconstruct images. We proposed a method to transform such extremely low frequency to more practical frequency by using the asymmetry spin echo method. By performing NMR experiments, we confirmed that the proposed method works properly.
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Research Products
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