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The Center for Brain & Mind Health Pilot Program is the center's annual keystone initiative, embodying its core value of interdisciplinary collaboration as a driver of clinically relevant neuroscience.

The Yale Biomedical Imaging Institute will drive transformative advancements in both basic science and clinical translation.

Tianyi Zeng, associate research scientist, has received a travel award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) for his contributions to the field of biomedical imaging.

The CMITT article "PET Mapping of Receptor Occupancy Using Joint Direct Parametric Reconstruction" was selected as a featured article in the March edition of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

Postgraduate Fellow Zhen Li received a Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Finalist Award at SPIE Medical Imaging 2025. She presented her paper entitled “Contrast-enhanced image-guided learning for nasopharyngeal carcinoma diagnosis using non-contrast MRI” in the computer-aided Diagnosis track on the 17th February.

The CMITT article "Free-breathing 3D cardiac extracellular volume (ECV) mapping using a linear tangent space alignment (LTSA) model" was selected as an Editor's Pick in Magnetic Resonance in Imaging. We developed a free-breathing 3D extracellular volume (ECV) mapping method for the entire heart at 3T. Using ECG-gated inversion recovery and a linear tangent-space alignment model, we aligned high-frame-rate dynamic images from sparsely sampled (k,t)-space data. Joint T1 and B1 mapping before and after contrast injection, with a linearly varying T1 model post-contrast, allowed for the creation of ECV maps by aligning pre- and post-contrast T1 maps. Tested on six healthy volunteers at 3T, the method produced 3D ECV maps with 1.9×1.9×4.5 mm³ resolution and a 308×308×144 mm³ FOV, with scan times around 10 minutes. The ECV maps corresponded well with the 2D MOLLI method. This approach enables practical free-breathing 3D ECV mapping of the whole heart.

The 2024 IEEE NSS/MIC/RTSD Conference will showcase groundbreaking work in nuclear science and medical imaging, with the CMITT playing a prominent role in two short courses, two posters, and two oral presentations.

CMITT, a National Center for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, has relocated from Massachusetts General Hospital to Yale University while maintaining its leadership team. With a focus on PET/MR imaging, CMITT remains dedicated to groundbreaking research, now poised to thrive within Yale's collaborative academic environment.