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Wolfgang Gaggl, PhD: Functional MRI, Connectivity, and DTI in Clinical Practice

Room: 
Biotechnology Center Auditorium, 425 Henry Mall
Speaker Name: 
Wolfgang Gaggl, PhD
Speaker Institution: 
Medical College of Wisconsin
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Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine (CIBM) Seminar: Wolfgang Gaggl, PhD, received his PhD in Biophysics (MRI) at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, in 2012. He also holds a Master in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology in Graz, Austria, with focus on digital signal processing. After receiving his master degree in 2001, he joined the Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he worked on EEG and functional MRI (FMRI) of the auditory system and collaborated on studies on cochlear implants. In 2004 he moved to the Radiology Department as a senior research engineer for MRI where he specialized in Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI). He created a seamless multimodal (CT, MRI, FMRI, DTI) clinical imaging workflow from the scanner into the operating room and initiated a close collaboration with the Department of Neurosurgery to integrate these complementary imaging modalities into the surgical navigation system. With his effort the use of DTI and FMRI in the surgical resection of brain tumors has increased approximately 10 fold at the Medical College over the past 6 years, which led to a significant reduction of post-surgical deficits. For his doctoral thesis Dr. Gaggl developed a high-resolution DTI method that allows clinical DTI acquisitions in human subjects at 0.4mm in-plane resolution, thereby considerably improving the capabilities of clinical DTI in human brain and spinal cord.

Event Date:
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm (ended)