posted on September 4, 2014
MSI Principal Investigator Bin He, a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (College of Science and Engineering) and Director of the Institute for Engineering in Medicine, leads a group of University researchers who have received a National Science Foundation grant as part of President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative. This program is intended to support new technologies that will help us understand how the brain works. Professor He and his research team will explore new multimodal neuroimaging technology for extremely high-resolution brain sensing and imaging. An article about this award is on the College of Science and Engineering website.
Professor He uses MSI to develop computer simulations to study how electromagnetic fields behave in biological tissue, in support of research into different kinds of medical imaging. This research requires a great deal of memory, multi-core processors, and high-capability software.