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 NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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  • Location: Trondheim, Norway
  • Equipment:
          - Two 3 Tesla MR systems for human research on patients and volunteers
          - 7 Tesla MR for pre-clinical research in experimental animal models
          - Two high-field magnets for high-resolution MR Spectroscopy (MR metabolomics)
  • Personnel: 80 PhD students and post docs in a multi-disciplinary environment that covers medicine, ICT, physics, mathematics, cybernetics, electronics, neuroscience, molecular biology etc.
  • Contact: Professor Olav Haraldseth MD, PhD
  • Email: Olav.Haraldseth@ntnu.no
  • Website: http://www.ntnu.no/milab

 

 




The Main Research Lines :

  • Ultrasound technology innovation
  • Medical imaging applications for non-expert users
  • Image-guided minimally invasive surgery
  • Image-based information to support medical decision making

 

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Why participation in COST BM0601 Neuromath ?

In general:

  • improve our ability for mathematical and statistical analysis of MR images with the aim of quantification and visualisation of a wide range of biologically and medically relevant parameters.
  • use MR as a research tool for systems neuroscience


Some present projects:

  • High-resolution fMRI of memory functions in hippocampus and MTL
  • Early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
  • Brain dysfunction after premature birth (cortical thickness, DTI, fMRI)
  • Brain tumour mapping and grading based on perfusion and angiogenesis related parameters
  • Pre-surgical mapping for neurosurgery (DTI and fMRI co-registered with intra-operative ultrasound)

 

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UIB – University of Bergen

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Department of Biological and Medical Psychology - fMRI group
Department for Biomedicine - Neuroinformatics and image analysis laboratory
Department of Mathematics – Bergen image processing group
Department of Informatics – Visualization group
Bergen Center for Computational Science – PARA//AB
HUS - Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen
Department of Radiology - fMRI group
Division of Psychiatry - fMRI group
Department of Neurology - Section of Clinical Neurophysiology
Clinical Engineering Department - Section for medical technology

 

General Information :

  • Location:  Bergen , Norway 
  • Equipment:
          - one GE 3 Tesla MR system for human research on patients and volunteers
          - Two GE/Siemens 1.5 T MR systems for human research on patients and volunteers
          - One Bruker PharmaScan 7 T small-bore MR system for animal research 
          - Eight modular 32 channel EEG systems (BrainAmps) distributed across three electro-magnetically shielded and sound proof test chambers (Rainford)
          - Two MRI-compatible 32 channel EEG amplifier systems
          - Neuronavigated (NexStim) transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
          - Behavioral testing, auditory psychophysics lab, Neuropsychology lab
          - Access to High Performance Computing facilities (IBM e1350 Linux cluster + Cray XT4) and GRID
  • Personnel:
          - 10 PhD students
          - 6 post docs
          - 9 professors
    in a multi-disciplinary environment that covers psychology, medicine, physics, mathematics, informatics, engineering, biology.
  • Contacts:
          - Professor Arvid Lundervold, MD PhD
          - Professor Kenneth Hugdahl, PhD
          - Dr. Tom Eichele, MD PhD
  • Emails:
          - arvid.lundervold@biomed.uib.no
          -hugdahl@psybp.uib.no
          - tom.eichele@psybp.uib.no
  • Websites at UiB :
          - http://fmri.uib.no
          - http://www.med.uib.no/med/bbb3/wwwbbbmaineng 
          - http://math.uib.no/BBG/BBG 
          - http://www.ii.uib.no/vis  
          - http://www.parallab.uib.no 
          - http://medviz.uib.no
 
The Main Research Lines :
  • Functional MRI,
  • Structural MRI,
  • DTI,
  • MR spectroscopy,
  • MR morphometry analysis, 
  • EEG-fMRI integration,
  • Multispectral imaging,
  • EEG single trial analysis,
  • Neuro-navigated TMS,
  • Auditory processing,
  • Hemispheric lateralization,
  • Speech perception,
  • Psychiatric disorders,
  • Visualization science,
  • Computational science,
  • Mathematical modeling

 

What it is offered to the other NEUROMATH partners :

  • Training of PhD students / hosting students and researchers for STSM, supported by NEUROMATH with a focus on:
      - Pattern recognition and image analysis methodology
      - Methods for the analysis of simultaneously recorded EEG and fMRI
      - Group-level Independent component analysis of EEG and fMRI
      - Behavioral, neuropsychological, EEG/ERP, sMRI and fMRI data from various experimental paradigms and clinical groups.



What we are looking for in the other NEUROMATH partners :

  • Exchange of researchers
  • Preparation of joint research projects / applications
  • Joint development of methods
  • Application of methods developed by NEUROMATH partners for estimation of effective connectivity in EEG and fMRI, and multimodal data.


External Collaborators :

  • Vince Calhoun, Mind Institute Albuquerque, NM, USA
  • Markus Ullsperger, MPI for neurological research, Cologne, GER
  • Michael Green, Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA, USA
  • Gereon R. Fink, Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Cologne, Germany
  • Vincent Barra, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, FR


Selected recent publications :

  • Bergmann, Ø., Christiansen, O., Lie, L., Lundervold, A. Shape-adaptive DCT for denoising of 3D scalar and tensor values images. Journal of Digital Imaging 2008.
  • Eichele, T., Calhoun, V., Moosmann, M., Specht, K., Jongsma, M.L., Quiroga, R.Q., Nordby, H., & Hugdahl, K. Unmixing concurrent EEG-fMRI with parallel independent component analysis. International Journal of Psychophysiology 2008
  • Eichele, T., Debener, S., Calhoun, V., Specht, K., Engel, A., Hugdahl, K., von Cramon D.Y., Ullsperger, M. Prediction of human errors by maladaptive changes in event-related brain networks. PNAS 2008
  • Eichele, T., Specht, K., Moosmann, M., Jongsma, M.L., Quiroga, R.Q., Nordby, H., & Hugdahl, K. (2005). Assessing the spatiotemporal evolution of neuronal activation with single-trial event-related potentials and functional MRI. PNAS 2005
  • Hugdahl, K., Løberg, E-M, Jørgensen, H., Specht, K., Steen, V.M., Wageningen, H. Jøtrgensen, H.A. .Auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia: the role of cognitive, brain structural and genetic disturbances in the left temporal lobe. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2008
  • Klauschen, F., Goldman, A., Barra, V., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Lundervold, A. Evaluation of automated brain MR image segmentation and volumetry methods. Human Brain Mapp 2008.
  • Lu, Z., Lundervold, A., Tjøstheim, D., Yao, Q. Exploring spatial nonlinearity using additive approximation. Bernoulli 2007
  • Lysaker, M., Lundervold, A., Tai,  X-C. Noise removal using fourth-order partial differential equations with applications to medical magnetic resonance images in space and time. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2003.
  • Plessen, K.J., Lundervold, A,, Gruner, R., Hammar, A., Lundervold, A.J., Peterson, B.S., Hugdahl, K. Functional brain asymmetry, attentional modulation, and interhemispheric transfer in boys with Tourette syndrome. Neuropsychologia 2007
  • Sandu, A-L, Rasmussen, I-A, Lundervold, A, Kreuder, F., Neckelmann, G., Hugdahl, K., Specht, K.  Fractal dimension analysis of MR images reveals grey matter structure irregularities in schizophrenia. Computerized Medical maging and Graphics, 2008
  • Sorg, C., Riedl, V., Mühlau, M., Calhoun, V., Eichele, T., Läer, L., Drzezga A., Förstl, H., Kurz, A., Zimmer, K., Wohlschläger, A. Selective changes of resting-state networks in individuals at high risk for Alzheimer’s disease. PNAS 2007
  • van den Noort M, Specht K, Rimol LM, Ersland L, Hugdahl K.  A new verbal reports fMRI dichotic listening paradigm for studies of hemispheric asymmetry. Neuroimage , 2008
  • Westerhausen, R., Hugdahl, K.The corpus callosum in dichotic listening studies of hemispheric asymmetry: A review of clinical and experimental evidence, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2008
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