Date:   Friday, Nov. 21, 2008
Time:  11:00 a.m.
Place:  McMillan Auditorium (136 Ross Hall)

Xiaoping Hu
Professor
Department of Biomedial Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University

Hu earned his bachelor's degree in 1982 from the University of Science and Technology of China, and his master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Chicago in 1984 and 1988, respectively. He is considered an expert in magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, functional MRI, image reconstruction and processing, and molecular imaging. He is also a fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

MRI: From Anatomy to Function and From Men to Mice
Hu, who serves as director for the Emory's Center for Systems Imaging, will provide an overview of the advances in the methodology and biomedical applications of MRI technology over the past 35 years. Today, this multifaceted tool can be used for noninvasively assessing anatomy as well as physiology, molecular signature and function of living systems. It has also become an indispensable vehicle for studying animals for basic and clinical biomedical science applications. Hu will highlight some aspects related to brain imaging and molecular imaging.