牛海晶老师课题组邀请了美国德州大学的Hanli Liu教授到实验室做学术报告。Hanli Liu教授是近红外研究领域的专家，具有将近30年的近红外研究经验。欢迎感兴趣的老师和同学参加Hanli Liu教授的学术报告。以下为报告信息：
时间：2015年7月21日，10：00-11：00AM
地点：京师大厦9420会议室
题目： Prefrontal cortex imaging of memory, attention, and decision making by near infrared spectroscopy and diffuse optical tomography
报告摘要: In recent years, there has been great interest in exploring novel applications of near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) for functional brain imaging. Professor Liu has actively worked in this field and identified several new applications of NIRS for clinical and/or neuroscience research. Her studies have focused on prefrontal cortex activities associated with working memory, selective or associative attention, and risk decision making in either normal subjects or subjects with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In particular, Dr. Liu’s team has developed volumetric diffuse optical tomography (DOT) in order to improve DOT image spatial resolution and depth accuracy. In this presentation, she will present several examples of novel NIRS and DOT applications to reveal (1) prefrontal responses to a digit span memory task and Stroop task in patients with PTSD, (2) prefrontal images of associative recognition with a rapid event-related design, and (3) age-dependent prefrontal actions/reactions to risk decision making. She will also demonstrate how DOT can improve functional image quality and afford voxel-wise analysis for quantifying resting state functional connectivity or resting state cortical brain networks.
报告人简介：Dr. Hanli Liu is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and tissue optics for cancer detection, quantification of tissue oxygenation, and functional brain imaging. She earned her B.S. degree in Physics from Beijing Normal University in 1983, followed by her M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Wake Forest University in 1990 and 1994, respectively. She was solidly trained in the field of NIRS and diffuse optical tomography in the laboratory of late Dr. Chance at the University of Pennsylvania from 1992 to 1996. Dr. Liu became an associate and full professor of Bioengineering in 2001 and 2006, respectively, at the University of Texas (UT) at Arlington. Her current research expertise includes (1) development of 3-dimensisonal image reconstruction, (2) novel algorithm development to process temporal-spatial signals in NIRS brain imaging, and (3) exploration of NIRS for clinically-relevant applications. In her 19 years at UT Arlington, she has obtained multi-million external funding as the PI from the National Institutes of Health (such as R01, R21, and R33), Department of Defense Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Programs. She has (i) published near 100 peer-reviewed journal papers and 120 conference proceeding papers, (ii) delivered more than 55 scientific seminars at institutions nationally and internationally, (iii) received a variety of research awards at the University and State levels, (iv) been an associate editor for Optics Express and NeuroPhotonics, and (v) been a frequent grant reviewer for the NIH.