Associate Professor of Radiology Harvard Medical School

Investigator Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Mass General Research Institute

acupuncture therapy; brain; brain mapping; cerebrovascular circulation; echo-planar imaging; magnetic resonance imaging

• Sequence development for cardiac gated brain-stem imaging
• MR study of the use of oxygen in acute stroke
• Susceptibility correction in fMRI
• Stimulated echo sequence for black blood studies
• Sleep disorder studies
• Acupuncture investigation with fMRI 
• Gua sha, cupping and heme oxygenase-1 research for myofascial as well as respiratory disorders
• Brown fat fMRI
• New approaches to resting state and functional connectivity analysis
• Early time points perfusion imaging
• Research on some of the common links in chronic pain disorders and their management. 
• Novel applications in vagus nerve stimulation, transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation