New brain map technology set to revolutionise disease diagnoses
Led by A/Prof Gary Egan, the Neuroimaging group at the Howard Florey Institute said that his group was using one of the most powerful Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners in the world - an ultra-high field 7 Tesla - to help develop the new brain mapping technology.
In a ground-breaking move, researchers at the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne are developing a new technology to create individualised brain maps that will change the way disease is diagnosed, and will also enhance the accuracy of brain surgery.
Right now, researchers and neurosurgeons use coarse maps of the brain's structure that are based on a small number of individuals' brains after death. But these maps fail to show differences that can occur between people's brains.
This new brain mapping technology will be created by developing acquisition and analysis processes and software that will offer microscopic level investigation of individual brains.
In this project, Florey researchers are contributing neuroscience, engineering and mathematical expertise, while collaborators from the Neuroscience Research Institute in South Korea are providing the equipment.
The researchers are hoping that this technology will become widely available in the next two to three years.
Led by A/Prof Gary Egan, the Neuroimaging group at the Howard Florey
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