Organisation:
University of Edinburgh
Department:
Centre for Clinical Brain Imaging
Keywords:
Small vessel disease, Functional MRI (fMRI), Physics, Image processing, Image analysis, Simulation, Statistics, Dementia, Lacunar stroke, Stroke, Leukoaraiosis, Multicentre studies
Research Themes:
The aim of my PhD is to investigate the relationship between cerebral small vessel disease features and cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR). CVR is a metric associated to the ability of blood vessels to dilate in order to respond to brain demand. Such a parameter is obtained using hypercapnic-BOLD MRI. As part of my project, I try to improve the processing steps of cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) data.