NFSI & ICBEM 5/11

8th International Symposium on Noninvasive Functional Source Imaging of the Brain and Heart /
8th International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism

Topics

• Electrical and magnetic fields generated by the brain and heart
• Functional measurements using MRI, PET and SPECT
• Multimodal imaging, EEG/fMRI/NIRS/Optical
• Electric and magnetic source imaging
• Brain connectivity
• Source imaging and analysis methodologies
• Simultaneous EEG and fMRI in epilepsy
• Modeling the electromechanical properties of heart, skeletal and smooth muscle
• Magnetic resonance impedance tomography
• Functional MREIT and EIT
• Functional near-infrared spectroscopy
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Microwave tumor detection
• MEG applications in epilepsy
• Diffusion tensor imaging
• Neural modeling
• Electromyogram and -gastrogram
• Implantable devices
• Brain-computer interface

Speakers

	Professor Jean Gotman, PhD Non-invasive localization of the epileptic focus with EEG-FMRI Montreal Neurological Institute, CANADA
Prof. Jean Gotman obtained a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Paris in 1969, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College in the USA in 1971 and a PhD in Neuroscience from McGill University in 1976. He joined the faculty of the Montreal Neurological Institute in 1977 and became full professor in 1993. His research interests center on computer analysis of the EEG, and mechanisms of epileptogenesis and seizure spread in humans. His methods of automatic detection of spikes and seizures are used worldwide. His recent interests center on the exciting new methodology of combined EEG and FMRI studies in epileptic patients, as well as on the very high frequencies found in the intracerebral EEGs of epileptic patients. His research is funded primarily by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Savoy Foundation for Epilepsy. Prof. Gotman has been the recipient of the Pierre Gloor Award of the American Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, the Penfield Award of the Canadian League against Epilepsy and the Clinical Research Award of the American Epilepsy Society.
	Professor Gabriele Gratton, MD PhD FAPS Illuminating Brain Function: Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Cognitive Dynamics University of Illinois, USA
Prof. Gabriele Gratton received his MD from University of Rome in 1980 and his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1991. He is now Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois and a Member in the Beckman Institute Cognitive Neuroscience Group. Prof. Gratton received the SPR Early Career Contribution to Psychophysiology Award in1997 and the University of Missouri Provost Outstanding Junior Faculty Research and Creativity Award in 2000. He has served as President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) and was named Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in 2006. Prof. Gratton’s research is aimed at the development of new non-invasive functional imaging methodologies based on simultaneously measured event-related optical and electrical signals (EROS and ERPs). His studies of language processing and the rapid interaction of multiple brain regions have successfully exploited the spatial resolution provided by EROS combined with the temporal resolution of the ERP.
	Professor Bin He, PhD FIEEE FAIMBE FISFSI FIOP Functional Imaging of Brain and Cardiac Electrical Activity University of Minnesota, USA
Prof. Bin He is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Neuroengineering and the Director of NIH Training Program in Neuroimaging at the UofM. Prof. He is an Associate Editor of multiple international journals including IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Brain Topography, and the International Journal on Bioelectromagnetism. Prof. He has been the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, an American Heart Association Established Investigator Award, and has been named a Fellow of the IEEE, of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, of the International Society for Functional Source Imaging, and of the Institute of Physics. He is a Past President of both the International Society of Bioelectromagnetism (ISBEM) and of the International Society for Functional Source Imaging (ISFSI). Prof. He is the 2009-2010 President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
	Professor Graeme Jackson, BSc (Hons) MBBS FRACP MD Hyperexcitable 'Epilepsy' Networks Explored by EEG - fMRI University of Melbourne, Australia
Prof. Graeme Jackson is the founding Director of the Brain Research Institute & Head of the MRI - Epilepsy Research Group in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also a Neurologist at the Austin Hospital and an Honorary Neurologist at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne and a Board member of Neurosciences Victoria and the Florey Neuroscience Institutes. He is internationally recognized for his work in new MR technologies, particularly in the field of epilepsy and is a pioneer in simultaneous/combined EEG and fMRI in epilepsy research. Prof. Jackson recently won the highly prestigious 2008 National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia's outstanding achievement award.
	Professor Christoph Michel, PhD Combining EEG Mapping and fMRI to reveal cerebral network dynamics University of Geneva, Switzerland
Prof. Christoph Michel studied biology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich Switzerland and received the PhD in Behavioral Biology in 1988 with a thesis on the EEG correlates of human information processing and psychopharmacological influences.  He then moved to the Neurology Clinic of the University Hospital in Zurich where he worked as a Research Assistant in the laboratory of Prof. Dietrich Lehmann developing and applying methods of spatio-temporal EEG and ERP analyses. He then assumed a Fellowship at the Neuromagnetism Laboratory in the Department of Physics and Psychology at the New York University with Prof. Sam J. Williamson where he combined EEG with MEG, a tool which at that time was in its early stages of usefulness in brain research. In 1994 he was appointed to the medical faculty of the University of Geneva where he was given the responsibility of setting up a functional brain mapping laboratory at the Neurology Clinic directed by Prof. T. Landis. In 2003, he was appointed Associate Professor of Clinical Neuroscience and also Director of the EEG Core of the Lemanic Biomedical Imaging Center (CIBM)at the University of Geneva. His work has always been devoted to the methodological advancement of the EEG with the objective of moving from the analysis of waveforms to the development of neuroimaging tools. The application of these tools in cognitive as well as in clinical neuroscience remains the focus of his research. Prof. Michel has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and is first author of the book “Electrical Neuroimaging” published by Cambridge University Press in 2009.  He was recently appointed Editor in Chief of the journal Brain Topography and is now President-Elect of the International Society for Bioelectromagnetism.
	Professor Riitta Salmelin, PhD MEG and fMRI as probes of cognitive function: Multimodal imaging of language perception and production Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland
Prof. Ritta Salmelin received the PhD degree in Information Technology from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1989. In 2006 she was appointed Academy Professor in the Academy of Finland and presently heads the Language Group in the Brain Research Unit, Low Temperature Laboratory, Aalto University School of Science and Technology. Her career began in low temperature physics and she spent some time as a visiting scientist at Commissariat d'Energie Atomique, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette in France. Her research now focuses on cortical dynamics of language function and dysfunction, as well as on oscillatory neural activity and its role in brain connectivity. She has made important contributions in the evaluation of electromagnetic imaging as a probe of cognitive processing, more recently in combination with hemodynamic imaging. She has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, has written 13 articles in edited books and has given some 90 invited presentations at international meetings. She is the senior editor of the recently published handbook “MEG: An Introduction to Methods” by Oxford University Press. She has also organized MEG/EEG courses at a number of Human Brain Mapping Conferences. In 2000, she was given the Wiley Young Investigator Award by the Organization for Human Brain Mapping and in 2003 the Philips Nordic Prize for research on neurodevelopmental disorders. Prof. Salmelin is Associate Editor of Human Brain Mapping and a Member of the Editorial Board of Brain Topography.
	Professor Natalia Trayanova, PhD FAMA Image-Based Cardiac Modeling: Implications for Ventricular Ablation, Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy and Arrhythmia Mechanisms Johns Hopkins University, USA
Prof. Natalia Trayanova received her PhD from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, and trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC. She is now Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and is a member of the Institute for Computational Medicine at that Institution. She also holds the endowed William R. Brody Faculty Scholar Professorship and has recently been named as a Fellow of the American Heart Association for her achievements. Prof. Trayanova’s research is focused on the normal and pathological electromechanical behavior of the heart with emphasis on the mechanisms for cardiac arrhythmogenesis, on the role of cardiac tissue structure, on the mechano-electric feedback in the heart and on the improvement of the clinical therapies of infarct-related ventricular ablation and cardiac resynchronization therapy. Her professional activities include serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering and serving as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Heart Rhythm. Prof. Trayanova has also been a member of the NIH Electrical Signaling, Ion Transport, and Arrhythmias Study Section and in 2009, was Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms (Lucca, Italy).
	Professor Eung Je Woo, PhD Functional Brain Imaging Using MREIT and EIT: Requirements and Feasibility Kyung Hee University, Korea
Prof. Eung Je Woo received the PhD degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA in 1990. He is now Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Kyung Hee University in Korea and the Director of the Impedance Imaging Research Center (IIRC) there. His primary research interests include new impedance imaging methods such as Magnetic Resonance Electrical Impedance Tomography (MREIT) and Time - Frequency - Difference EIT for functional imaging of the head and chest. He has published papers on these topics in many journals including both the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and on Medical Imaging as well as in Physiological Measurement, Physics in Medicine and Biology and Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Prof. Woo has been Co-Chair of 10 International Conferences and Chair of the Scientific Program for the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC2006, Seoul). He also served as Co-chair of the Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing Track at EMBC 09 (Minneapolis).
	Professor Paolo Federico, MD PhD FRCPC From phantoms to humans: development of intracranial EEG-fMRI University of Calgary, Canada
Dr. Federico is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Clinical Neurosciences and Radiology at the University of Calgary. He is a neurologist and epileptologist and has an active research programme focusing on functional and structural imaging in epilepsy. His imaging studies include the study of cortical and subcortical circuits underlying the generation of interictal discharges, functional MRI analysis of the pre-ictal state, language and motor reorganization in focal epilepsy, and seizure-related structural brain changes. He also has an interest in advanced EEG analytical techniques, including the study of high frequency oscillations in humans and animal models of epilepsy. He currently holds funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research.

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