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Lab Talk

Valentina Mazzoli on Muscle, Aging, and the ‘Magic’ of Imaging

Valentina Mazzoli, imaging scientist searching for biomarkers of muscle health, talks about what makes muscles special, the toll that time can take on them, and the wonder of her first encounter with MRI.

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Lab Talk

Santiago Coelho on Diffusion, Serendipity, and Underexplored Sources

Santiago Coelho, postdoctoral fellow who develops diffusion MRI methods for brain imaging, talks about modeling tissue properties, entering the field by chance, and what he proposes to do next.

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Research Brief

Novel Imaging Meets Genomics to Answer Key Question about Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis: Who Will Have It?

PTOA is affecting more people earlier but medicine cannot predict who. The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases is funding NYU Grossman School of Medicine to create an advance warning.

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Lab Talk

Radhika Tibrewala on FastMRI Data, Machine Learning, and Starting a PhD amid the Pandemic

Radhika Tibrewala, graduate student in biomedical imaging, talks about the new fastMRI prostate dataset, deep learning in MRI, and how she started a PhD remotely in 2020.

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Honor Roll Research Brief

Diffusion MRI Study of Concussion Distinguished by AJNR

A multicompartment diffusion MRI analysis of football athletes adds to the body of evidence linking concussion and repeated head impacts to changes in the corpus callosum.

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Science Life

Dreams in English, Trilogies, and ‘Crazy Projects’—the PhD Journey of Hong Hsi Lee

Hong Hsi Lee, alumnus of the Biomedical Imaging & Technology PhD Program at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, has just completed postdoctoral training at our Center and is headed to a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. We take a look at his journey.

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Research Brief

MRI Detects Variations in Diameters of Axons

Scientists at NYU Langone Health show that MRI signal can detect axonal features long assumed to lie beyond the reach of magnetic resonance imaging.