Faruk Gulban
High Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
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Blog → http://thingsonthings.org
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- Our 7-minute venous mapping study is featured in the UMN Medical School news! I’m especially grateful for our international collaboration with Kendrick Kay from CMRR UMN. That partnership was vital in helping our ideas mature and refining the tools we built. med.umn.edu/news/seven-m...
- Reposted by Faruk Gulban🎓🧠 It's finally out in @pnas.org 📄 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We reconstruct the cerebellar cortex and vasculature in-vivo by combining motion-corrected, pTX-enabled #7T MRI with a new segmentation approach.
- A new MRI protocol can scan the human brain and its venous network in under 7 minutes at 0.35 mm iso. resolution, marking it as a potential tool for diagnosing cerebrovascular diseases and monitoring neurodegeneration. scim.ag/3LkRfRY
- Reposted by Faruk GulbanChristmas is over and you start wondering what 2026 may bring? 🎁 Perhaps this #PhD position in Tübingen on the Neural Mechanisms of #Body #Memories in #women & #men is for you 👇 Starting date 01.03.2026 or earlier #fMRI #mentalhealth #sexdifferences
- Reposted by Faruk Gulban📢 We’ve received several questions about the character count for OHBM 2026 submissions in our new platform, Oxford Abstracts. To help clear things up, we’ve put together a brief blog post explaining the updated limits and what they mean for you. 📝 Read more here: 👉 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/new-abs...
- Scientific publishing norms were built for a world that no longer exists. In this commentary, I argue that the future of scientific exchange may benefit from new channels of interaction and dissemination.
- In a satirical commentary, @ofgulban.bsky.social examines the widening gap between traditional publication norms and emerging channels of science communication: doi.org/10.52294/001... @ohbmofficial.bsky.social #FutureofPublishing #SpecialIssue
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- Reposted by Faruk GulbanA new season of OHBM Neurosalience has started. Here's our kickoff episode where I talk with Lead Producer, Michelle Li about highlights from the past season, reaching our 100th episode, the controversial DIANA paper from last year, and what to expect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFcq...
- Reposted by Faruk GulbanWe have an exciting 4-year PhD position available @maastrichtu.bsky.social focusing on intracranial EEG recordings to investigate how hippocampal ripples contribute to human memory processing. For more info: tinyurl.com/r5c49zuy (closing date Nov 2nd) Please help spread the word! #neurojobs
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- One reason I developed LayNii IDA was to more easily explore my 0.35 mm multi echo human brain data. Here I’m observing blood motion artifacts across echos. The arterial signal *appear* to move across several millimeters. Best captured in short readout windows (e.g. ~3 ms readout windows in GRE).
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- I've always wanted to explore fMRI time series as a smooth, real-time movie. Now I can with LayNii IDA. Plus, with voxel-wise correlations on the fly. Fast, intuitive, and surprisingly insightful. 40 ms TR fMRI data from @practicalfmri.bsky.social ! @layerfmri.bsky.social @afni-pt.bsky.social
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- Demonstrating anatomy-functional data registration of 11.7 T (!) partial-coverage human fMRI data at 0.7 × 0.7 × 0.8 mm resolution to help my colleague Alejandro Monreal-Madrigal. Who did a great work with this spiral readout acquisition. The data quality looks quite good 👏 youtu.be/Cgf8i-Lqrac
- Devlog #1 for LayNii IDA, a GUI for meso-(f)MRI data Featuring whole human brain MRI datasets at: • 0.8 mm functional data • 0.35 mm in vivo multi-echo anatomical data • 0.075 mm ex vivo anatomical data Chronicling the development journey of neuroimaging software. youtu.be/ZFsBljNOcyw?...
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- In this blog post I am exploring the strange tension between rigor, reach, and recognition in modern science. What we gain (and lose) by just publishing the PDFs: thingsonthings.org/just-publish...
- Grateful to these friends and collaborators who show up in the personal stories behind this post. Science communication isn’t just about clarity, it’s about connection: @sitek.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @mholla.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social
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- New in LayNii v2.9.0: Introducing *LayNii IDA*, a high-performance tool for real-time interaction with ultra–high resolution MRI data. Built for speed, designed for discovery. Still early, but a big step toward the next era of 7T fMRI: higher resolution, larger datasets. github.com/layerfMRI/La...
- The real time voxel-wise correlations are inpired by AFNI's InstaCorr, and BrainVoyager's time course interaction interface, while being a completely independent implementation of the technique. @layerfmri.bsky.social @afni-pt.bsky.social @bobcoxauthor.bsky.social @rainergoebel.bsky.social
- In neuroimaging, we do skull stripping, but not brain stripping. Feels like favoritism.
- [Field Note, Entry 05] - Refrain from repeating k-space experiment [Explosion_05]. What began as signal amplification now resembles an awakening. Frequencies folded in on themselves—revealing geometries that should not exist. - Proceeding further may breach more than spatial coherence...
- Reposted by Faruk GulbanThe result of a large (42 authors!) collaboration: "Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation" arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824 TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.
- I think ultra-high field MRI will be shifting toward ~0.35 mm voxels, even in routine use. This isn't just sharper images. We now directly see cortical layers, veins... It’s a leap, not a tweak. A few already crossed this threshold, but now it's becoming practical. More: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Faruk GulbanWe are recruiting for 5 permanent staff positions (Prof, Senior-, Lecturer) including for 7T-MRI. Please have a look and share widely. (Closing date: May 12) www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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- Mesoscopic veins appear as dark dots peppered across the middle gray matter surface—captured in living humans. High-precision cortex segmentation + T2*-weighted MRI at 0.35 mm isotropic resolution makes this possible. More at: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- In vivo reconstruction of Duvernoy's postmortem vasculature images - Fast, high-res imaging: Whole-brain 0.35 mm MRI in <7 min at 7 T - Vessel-type specific podt-processing: Capturing large leptomeningeal, pial, and intracortical meso-veins PDF: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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- Reposted by Faruk Gulban🚨 PhD opportunity alert! 🚨 Passionate about neuroscience? Want to work with cutting-edge tech like ultra-high field MRI and intracranial EEG to study the human brain? Join us and push the boundaries of neuroscience 🧠✨ 📍 @macsbio.bsky.social 📆 2 March 🔗 tinyurl.com/bfjwpmt9 #neurojobs #PhD
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- Never gets old
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- Behold the butterfly k-space trajectory: a maddening yet elegant dance across Fourier realms, conjuring cerebral truths from the void. Gaze upon the eldritch brain patterns it summons… if you dare.
- Experiments in k-space. I call this one "explosion-02".
- Reposted by Faruk Gulban🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 We're looking for a postdoc for our ERC Synergy project Unfold (unfold-lab.github.io). Join our lab at @institutpasteur to model brain morphogenesis! (1/10)
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- Mistakes were made... Accidental brain art 🎨🧠 #brainart @layerfmri.bsky.social
- I see you and raise you this bubble-sorted layers 🍰
- Fascinating: mesoscopic vessels remain consistently visible across different T2*-weighted acquisitions! Here’s the same living human brain imaged 6 months apart using different parameters. Which image is your favorite?
- While fine-tuning 3D EPI parameters, we captured an impressively clear view of the human LGN! If you look closely, you can almost make out faint layers—wish they were more distinct though 🫤
- 3D EPI has come so far! Here’s a whole-brain, 0.35 mm isotropic image we recently acquired, in under 7 minutes!!! So many potential applications (and analysis challenges) ahead... 🤯
- In this video, I am showing how to quickly register anatomical images onto partial coverage fMRI data using ITKSNAP: youtu.be/2txoJiLsNbU
- We have starting developing a *programming first* self-study pipeline to understand the fMRI signal in OHBM 2024 Brainhack. Might be useful for those who learn by interacting with the equations. A summary of the project can be found at: youtu.be/jQyK0ZV1LzY
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- Another ISMRM 2024 power pitch ( #1070 ): ● “Phase jolt: Second spatial derivative of phase images is …” ● Image Reconstruction ● Wed 08 May | 15:45 | PC: 6 ● Watch: youtu.be/xmnKw_P97jU?... Dimo Ivanov will cover it for me. Unfortunately I will not be there in person.
- This year's ISMRM power pitch ( #959 ): ● "Multi-slab whole-brain in vivo 0.35 mm human brain at 7 T... " ● Advances in Data Acq. ● Wed 08 May | 13:30 | PC #19 ● : youtu.be/5hUe_J5F354?... Dimo Ivanov will cover it for me. Unfortunately I will not be there in person.
- How we generate a useful reference frame is complicated at high resolution where fine cortical details are visible. Therefore, we tried to elucidate some advanced concepts and considerations that goes into computing the geometric layers and columns in this blog post: layerfmri.com/2024/04/18/l...
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- Reposted by Faruk GulbanMy group is looking for a post doc who is passionate about high field layer fMRI methods, time series analysis, or functional contrast mechanisms. fim.nimh.nih.gov/positions-av...
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- A new video tutorial on segmenting and meshing treeshrew cortical layers for whole brain analyses: youtu.be/g4N4pO8pFak?...
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- I am going to give a workshop on "Surveying cortical and subcortical topography through geometric layers and columns using LayNii" Note the dates 14/15 March in Tübingen, Germany: estherkuehn-science.org/bid-2024.html @layerfmri.bsky.social @sitek.bsky.social
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- Eldritch strings entwine, MRI echoes in time, Zann's neural hymn. #Layer_fMRI_Artifact_of_the_Week
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- Quantum echoes hum, Silicon synapses bloom, Electric thoughts consume.
