Serbia

Electrophysiological and Mathematical Approaches in Analysis of Brain Dynamics

General Information :

Location: Serbia
     - Institute for Biological Research¹, University of Belgrade
     - Institute for Multidisciplinary Research², Belgrade
      - Mathematical Faculty³, University of Belgrade
      - Center for Magnetic Resonance Imaging⁴, Inst. Oncology, Sremska      Kamenica
Equipment:
      - Stereotaxic apparatus for cats & rats
      - Electrode positioning System (Alpha Omega, Ltd)
      - Multi-channel (8-16) processor (Alpha Omega, Ltd)
      - PC & Data Acquisition System (32-32768Hz)
      - Telemetric Unit for animal’s measurements of: EEG, ECoG, EMG, Single neuronal activity
      - MRI 1.5T (Avanto Tim 76x32)
      - MRI 3T (Trio Tim 102x32)
      - fMRI
Contact:
      - Dr. M. Culic¹: milkacul@ibiss.bg.ac.yu
      - S. Spasic²: sladjana@cms.bg.ac.yu
      - Prof. A. Jovanovic³: aljosha.jovanovich@gmail.com
      - O. Sveljo⁴: sveljo@yahoo.com

What we can offer from Mathematical and Computational Tools in Animal and Human studies:

Software for acquisition, real time time-spectroscopy, RT- numeric and monitoring of electrical brain activity (Unlimited number of acquisition channels at high sampling rates with unlimited real-time computation capacity based on embedded DSP computers of latest generation); Complex imaging including 3D real-time
Our own MATLAB Library for analysis of brain signals: Variety of spectroscopy tools, wavelet and fractal analysis in time domain with reach graphics

What we can offer in MRI/fMRI acquisitions, techniques and analytic tools:

State of the art MRI/fMRI and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)
      - Eight channel Head Matrix in supporting integrated parallel acquisition techniques (IPAT)
      - A high gradient system (40mT/m)
      - EPI acquisition with motion correction packages
Physiological Measurement Unit
      - ECG signal and frequency
      - Pulse signal and frequency
      - Respiratory signal and frequency
      - External trigger signal
A set of software tools for statistical analysis and 2D/3D visualization of fMRI data