Archive for the ‘CogNeuro’ Category

In Los Angeles

I am out at UCLA for the next two weeks attending the Advanced Neuroimaging Summer Program. It is amazing to be here because I have always seen UCLA and the Laboratory of Neuroimaging as a great center of neroscience globally. We just wrapped up the first day and it was incredibly awesome – Mark Cohen’s […]

August 14, 2007 • Posted in: CogNeuro, Meta • No Comments

When magnets attack

When I was a kid we used to buy dry ice from the local supermarket. We would take it home and drop a few ounces of the stuff into sealed two-liter bottles. Over the course of fifteen minutes the dry ice would sublime to carbon dioxide gas, causing the bottle to distend and eventually burst. […]

July 31, 2007 • Posted in: MRI • No Comments

Pumpkin MRI

You can put more than humans in the scanner. This was a pumpkin that we threw into the head coil around halloween a few years ago. After scanning we imported the data into Osirix and completed the 3D rendering you see above. After adding the orange color table it turned out quite nicely! If you […]

July 24, 2007 • Posted in: CogNeuro, MRI • No Comments