Center for Functional Imaging Technologies

在这个应用程序中，我们寻求新的支持，我们继续努力开发创新的神经成像 在我们的P41区域资源的高度集成的多式联运框架内， 功能性神经成像技术（CFNT）。CFNT的首要目标是提供技术 资源，以更密切地检查和更好地了解人类大脑在健康和疾病。到 为此，我们寻求开发新技术，并改进现有的采集和分析技术 工作大脑的功能特定图像，具有前所未有的生理精度， 时空分辨率为了实现这一目标，我们建议继续我们的核心和合作 研究、服务、培训和传播活动。这一努力的核心是我们的四大核心技术 研究和开发项目，旨在改善和扩展非侵入性磁共振成像技术， 共振图像分析（项目1）和采集（项目2），电磁源成像（项目3）， 光学神经成像（项目4）。对于这个周期来说，一项令人兴奋的新技术，集成PET/MRI， 将在其中几个项目中进行探索。资源提供了一个重要的互动 环境中，一个跨学科的团队，高技能的科学家，工程师和临床医生， 多种形式和学科的多样化专业知识与我们的中心密切合作，以推动 中心的技术能力，同时通过应用我们的工具来加强自己的研究， 共同发展。最后，资源将继续支持中心设施的服务使用， 全国各地的神经科学家，为学生，研究员提供广泛的培训机会， 工作人员的科学家，并寻求通过积极传播新的 知识和技术。

In this application we seek renewed support for our continued efforts to develop innovative neuroimaging technologies within the highly integrated multimodal framework of our P41 Regional Resource, the Center for Functional Neuroimaging Technologies (CFNT). The overarching goal of the CFNT is to provide technology resources to more closely examine and better understand the human brain in both health and disease. To this end, we seek to develop new techniques and advance existing technologies for acquisition and analysis of functionally specific images of the working brain, with unprecedented physiological precision and spatiotemporal resolution. To accomplish this goal, we propose to continue our core and collaborative research, service, training and dissemination activities. Central to this effort are our four core technology research and development projects, designed to improve and extend techniques for non-invasive magnetic resonance image analysis (Project 1) and acquisition (Project 2), electromagnetic source imaging (Project 3), and optical neuroimaging (Project 4). New for this cycle, an exciting new technology, integrated PET/MRI, will be explored within several of these projects. The Resource provides an essential interactive environment, within which an interdisciplinary team of highly skilled scientists, engineers, and clinicians with diverse expertise in multiple modalities and disciplines collaborate closely with our Center to advance the technical capabilities of the Center, while reciprocally enhancing their own research by applying the tools we co-develop. Finally, the Resource will continue to support service use of the Center's facilities by neuroscientists throughout the country, provide extensive training opportunities for students, fellows, and staff scientists, and seek to advance the field of brain mapping through active dissemination of new knowledge and technology.