Nutrition and Brain Growth in the Developing World
Researcher Maria Angela Franceschini recently completed a study of nutrition and brain development in Guinea-Bissau. Read more at: news.martinos.org/nutrition-brain-growth-developing-world
fNIRS can robustly measure brain activity during memory encoding and retrieval
The MGH Research Institute covers a new study by the Center’s Meryem Yucel and colleagues, reporting on using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) for noninvasive measurement...
17th annual fNIRS course
Our 17th annual fNIRS course is scheduled for Nov 1-3, 2017 in Boston. This intensive course mixing lectures and hands-on training with a growing focus on hands-on...
The Martinos Center Views the Eclipse as Only It Can
Members of the Martinos Center community, along with family and friends, gathered on the waterfront yesterday to view the solar eclipse. Continue reading at: news.martinos.org/martinos-center-views-eclipse-as-only-it-can/
Neurophotonics Center: Advancing Understanding of the Brain
The understanding of the human brain has leaped forward in recent years, with the help of the emerging field of neurophotonics, a noninvasive, light-based technology...
David Boas to be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
David A. Boas, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
SPIE highlights presentation by Mari Franceschini
A plenary talk from SPIE Photonics West 2017 – http://spie.org/pw In this plenary session, Maria Angela Franceschini of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical...
SPIE Translational Research Award Goes to Optics Division Investigator
Parisa Farzam, a postdoctoral fellow in the Martinos Center Optics Division, received the 2017 Translational Research Award this week at the annual Photonics West meeting...
Dr Franceschini receives the 2016 Distinguished Investigator Award
The Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research is pleased to announce that 38 researchers received this award in 2016. Please join us in congratulating...
David Boas to receive SPIE Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award for neuroimaging advances
Brain researcher David Boas has been named as winner of the 2016 Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award, the Awards Committee for SPIE, the international society...