Talk Title: Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping: a tool to investigate brain anatomy and function with Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Mauro Costagli is an Associate Professor of Advanced Medical and Surgical Technology and Methodology at the University of Genoa, Italy. He holds an M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering and a Ph.D. in Molecular, Metabolic and Functional Exploration of the Nervous System and Sensory Organs, both from the University of Pisa.
From 2003 to 2004, he was with the Italian National Research Council (CNR), where he worked on astrophysical image processing for the analysis of cosmic microwave background radiation. Between 2004 and 2011, he conducted research at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan, focusing on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for studying human brain functions. From 2011 to 2020, he was affiliated with the Imago7 Foundation and Stella Maris Hospital in Pisa, where he contributed to the development of advanced imaging techniques for ultra-high field (7 T) MRI, with applications in neuroscience and clinical neurology.
Since 2020, he has been with the University of Genoa. His research interests encompass MRI acquisition methods, image reconstruction, and data analysis for high-field (3 T) and ultra-high-field (7 T) systems. His current work focuses on susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI), quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM), functional imaging (including fMRI and functional QSM), multiparametric quantitative techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) and Quantitative Transient-state Imaging (QTI), as well as synthetic imaging.