| | Staff Scientists and Clinicians
| Jerzy Bodurka,
Ph.D. |
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Dr. Jerzy Bodurka is a staff scientist in the Functional
MRI Facility of the Division of the Intramural
Research Programs, National Institute of Mental Health,
National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.He received his Ph.D. in NMR spectroscopy and relaxometry at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland. He performed his postdoctoral Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI) work at Biophysics Research Institute, Medical College Wisconsin. He is an MRI physicist with professional computer skills in low-level hardware, system (Unix/Linux) and network programming (C/Perl). He is a recipient of Polish Health Minister�s Scientific Award (1997) and the NIH Director's Award (2007). |
| Research Interests |
Dr. Bodurka’s work at NIMH is focused on fMRI techniques and applications for the study of human brain function and organization. As the principle physicist for the 3T and 1.5T General Electric (GE) HDx MRI Scanners, Dr. Bodurka has been responsible for setting up, maintaining, and performing requested improvements on the scanners and interfaced systems. Dr Bodurka’s research interests focus on advancements of spatial and temporal fMRI limits, the study of a new MRI contrast mechanism including MRI detection of weak and transient magnetic field variation induced by neuronal activity, and understanding the physical mechanism of BOLD contrast and general methods development for fMRI. He pioneered and developed a new methodology to push the MRI detection limit for ultra weak and transient magnetic field detection. Recently, MRI direct detection of neuronal activation in tissue culture was achieved.
Dr Bodurka’s interests in spatial and temporal fMRI limits resulted in the technological development of advanced and cutting-edge MRI. He designed and developed core, low-level, hardware-controlling, and data acquisition software for the scalable 16-channel fast digital receiver to work with the 3T GE MRI scanner. This development allowed for the design and testing of the entire family of highly sensitive, multi-element, surface coil arrays for brain and spinal imaging. New multi-element RF coils and massive parallel imaging capabilities allowed for significant improvements in spatial resolution and high speed fMRI/BOLD and perfusion imaging. Dr. Bodurka recently developed a real time image display, imaging data extraction, and scanner monitoring system for the GE HDx MRI scanners. |
| Representative Selected Recent Publications: |
- J. Bodurka, F.Ye, N. Petridou, K. Murphy, P.A. Bandettini: Mapping the MRI voxel volume in which thermal noise matches physiological noise � implication for fMRI
Neuroimage, 542-549, 2007.
- N. Petridou, D. Plenz, A.C. Silva, M. Loew, J. Bodurka, P.A. Bandettini: Direct Magnetic Resonance Detection of Neuronal Electrical Activity
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103; 16015-16020, 2006.
- PSF Bellgowan; P.A Bandettini, P van Gelderen, A. Martin, J. Bodurka: Improved BOLD Detection in the Medial Temporal Region Using Parallel Imaging and Voxel Volume Reduction
Neuroimage, 29, 1244-1251, 2006.
- MS. Beauchamp. BD. Argall, J. Bodurka, JH. Duyn, A. Martin: Unraveling multisensory integration: patchy organization within human STS multisensory cortex
Nature Neurosci, 7 (11), 1190-1192, 2004.
- J. Bodurka, P. Ledden, P. van Gelderen, R. Chu, J. de Zwart, J. Duyn: Scalable multi-channel MRI data acquisition system
Magn. Reson. Med, 51, 165-171, 2004.
- J. Bodurka, P.A. Bandettini: Toward direct mapping of neuronal activity: MRI detection of ultra-weak and transient magnetic field changes
Magn. Reson. Med, 47; 1052-1059, 2002.
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