Stephen Blackband Steve Blackband works on the development and application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS), primarily applied to Neuroscience Professor of Neuroscience Investigator, McKnight Brain Institute Training Ph.D. Physics with Biophysics, Univeristy of Nottingham, England B.S. University of Nottingham, England Contact phone: 352 846.2854 office: MBI LG-185 lab: MBI LG-160 email:blackie@mbi.ufl.edu Dr Blackband is developing techniques and applications of MRI and MRS at very high field strengths. This includes the development of the rf coil technology, and novel pulse sequences that exploit high magnetic fields. Applications are to isolated single neurons, isolated perfused rat and human brain slices, ex vivio tissue, and in vivo animals and humans. Primary goal is to try understand the origins of MR signals in tissues, especially on the information diffusion MR signals can provide with respect to tissue compartmentation, by constructing mathematical models to simulate the data, and then testing these models with a variety of tissue perturbations. A secondary goal is the acquisition of the highest resolution images on excised tissue as an aid to general anatomical atlases. Recent Publications Observation of significant signal voids in images of large biological samples at 11.1 T. Beck BL, Jenkins K, Caserta J, Padgett K, Fitzsimmons J, Blackband SJ. Magn Reson Med. 2004 Jun;51(6):1103-7. Quantitative measurement of neurodegeneration in an ALS-PDC model using MR microscopy. Wilson JM, Petrik MS, Grant SC, Blackband SJ, Lai J, Shaw CA. Neuroimage. 2004 Sep;23(1):336-43. Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of a Rat Hippocampal Slice Model for Acute Brain Injury. Shepherd TM, Thelwall PE, Blackband SJ, Pike BR, Hayes RL, Wirth III ED. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2003 Dec;23(12):1461-1470.