Service Projects

CAI²R makes advanced imaging technologies and capabilities available to researchers around the world.

We are currently engaged in 23 Service Projects and have concluded more than 70 since the center’s founding in 2014.

Service Projects (SPs) are interactions through which we make cutting-edge technologies available to outside investigators.

The biomedical imaging technologies we provide to SP partners are unique and not available anywhere else. As defined by the NIH, Service Projects “generally exploit the more mature capabilities” of National Centers for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and, in contrast to Collaborative Projects, “do not drive the development of new technologies or devices.”

Most SPs can be classified as focused on musculoskeletal, neurologic, oncologic, or cardiovascular imaging applications. A subset of SPs constitutes the GRASP/Yarra network, a group of institutions that implement GRASP MRI acquisitions and use the Yarra framework for image reconstruction. All SPs interact with at least one of our Center’s Technology R&D Projects (TR&Ds). Some also interact with our Training and Dissemination components (T&D), where dissemination means open sharing of unique resources and provision of advanced capabilities to sophisticated biomedical research teams.

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• Active Service Projects
  • SP-TR&D Interactions
  • Geographic Distribution
• Concluded Service Projects
• Contact

Active Service Projects

Service projects sustained during our NCBIB’s current funding period.

• Quantitative detection of coronary microvascular dysfunction in long Covid patients using a comprehensive, rapid, free-breathing cardiovascular MRI

  🇺🇸 Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

  Daniel Kim, PhD; Daniel Lee, MD

  TR&D 1, TR&D 2

  cardiovascular imaging
• Quantitative neuroimaging assessment of white matter integrity in the context of aging and Alzheimer’s disease

  🇺🇸 Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

  Andreana Benitez, PhD

  TR&D 3

  neurologic imaging
• Redefine trans-neuropsychiatric disorder brain patterns through big-data and machine learning

  🇺🇸 University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX

  Peter Kochunov, PhD; L. Elliot Hong, MD

  TR&D 3

  neurologic imaging
• Quantitative MRI and deep learning technologies for classification of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

  🇺🇸 University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

  Holden H. Wu, PhD

  TR&D 1, TR&D 2, TR&D 3

  abdominal imaging
• Volumetric real-time MRI at 0.55 Tesla

  🇺🇸 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  🇺🇸 NIH, Bethesda, MD

  Krishna Nayak, PhD; Adrienne Campbell-Washburn, PhD

  TR&D

  cardiovascular imaging, chest imaging
• Map paravascular fluid dynamic signatures of key aging and AD processes using dynamics diffusion-weighted imaging

  🇺🇸 Indiana University School of Medicine, Bloomington, IN

  Qiuting Wen, PhD; Yu-Chien Wu, PhD

  TR&D 1, TR&D 3

  neurologic imaging
• 3D high resolution magnetic resonance fingerprinting for prostate cancer

  🇺🇸 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  Yun Jiang, PhD

  TR&D 1

  oncologic imaging
• Characterization of renal allograft fibrosis and prediction of outcome using a quantitative MRI approach

  🇺🇸 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

  Sara C. Lewis, MD; Octavia Bane, PhD

  TR&D 1

  abdominal imaging
• Advanced imaging methods to assess traumatic brain injury

  🇺🇸 NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY

  Yvonne Lui, MD; Sohae Chung, PhD; Yongxian Qian, PhD

  TR&D 1, TR&D 2, TR&D 3

  neurologic imaging
• Non-invasive radio frequency stimulation of neurons and networks

  🇺🇸 NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY

  Gyorgy Buzsaki, PhD

  TR&D 2

  neurologic imaging
• Quantitative arterial spin labeling MR angiography and perfusion imaging for cerebral revascularization

  🇺🇸 Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

  Lirong Yan, PhD

  TR&D 1

  neurologic imaging
• A safe and compact neonate to adult neuroimaging MRI system

  🇺🇸 Advanced Imaging Research, Inc., Cleveland, OH

  Ravi Srinivasan

  TR&D 2

  neurologic imaging
• Cellular viscosity as a marker for alzheimer’s disease pathology: a combined multiparametric MR spectroscopy and PET study

  🇺🇸 NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
  🇮🇱 Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel

  Ivan Kirov, PhD; Assaf Tal, PhD

  TR&D 1

  neurologic imaging
• Investigating the temperature dependence of age-related Tau pathology relevant to early Alzheimer’s disease

  🇺🇸 NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY

  Esther Blessing, MD, PhD

  TR&D 3

  neurologic imaging
• Establishing a unified framework of spontaneous brain activity in perception

  🇺🇸 NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY

  Biyu He, PhD

  TR&D 2

  neurologic imaging
• Iron deficits and their relationship with symptoms and cognition in psychotic spectrum disorders

  🇺🇸 NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY

  Mariana Lazar, PhD

  TR&D 3

  neurologic imaging
• Rapid quantitative assessment of knee joint with compressed sensing

  🇺🇸 NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY

  Ravinder Regatte, PhD

  TR&D 1, TR&D 2

  musculoskeletal imaging
• Quantitative assessment of early structural and functional changes in aging skeletal muscle

  🇺🇸 NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY

  Valentina Mazzoli, PhD

  TR&D 1, TR&D 2

  musculoskeletal imaging
• Development of a clinical CEST MR fingerprinting method for treatment response assessment in brain metastases

  🇺🇸 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

  Ouri Cohen, PhD

  TR&D 1

  oncologic imaging
• Continuous abdominal imaging at 0.55 T

  🇺🇸 University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

  Michael Ohliger, MD, PhD

  TR&D 1, TR&D 2

  oncologic imaging
• Tailored screening for urinary system cancers in patients with chronic kidney disease

  🇺🇸 NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY

  Stella Kang, MD

  TR&D

  oncologic imaging
• Machine learning and deformable model-based 4D characterization of cardiac dyssynchrony from MRI

  🇺🇸 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  🇺🇸 NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY

  Dimitris Metaxas, PhD
  Leon Axel, MD, PhD

  TR&D 1

  cardiac imaging
• Genetic and immuno-inflammatory drivers of post-acute pulmonary sequelae of SARS-CoV-2

  🇺🇸 NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY

  Steven Abramson, MD; Rany Condo, MD

  TR&D 1, TR&D 2

Interactions between Service Projects and Technology R&D Projects

TR&Ds →	1	2	3
SP 1 [SP Kim-Lee] cardio	○	○
SP 2 [SP Benitez] neuro			○
SP 3 [SP Kochunov-Hong] neuro			○
SP 4 [SP Wu] abdominal	○	○	○
SP 5 [SP Nayak-Campbell-Washburn] cardio, chest	○	○
SP 6 [SP Wen-Wu] neuro	○		○
SP 7 [SP Jiang] onco	○
SP 8 [SP Lewis-Bane] abdominal	○
SP 9 [SP Lui-Chung-Qian] neuro	○	○	○
SP 10 [SP Buzsaki] neuro		○
Service Projects 11-23	○	○	○

Geographic Distribution of Service and Collaborative Projects

Taken together, our Service and Collaborative Projects involve research partners at more than 40 institutions in 13 states and 10 countries across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Contact

To inquire about establishing a Service Project, write Kayse Lewis, Collaborative and Service Projects coordinator, at Kayse.Lewis@nyulangone.org.