Corey Baron
Associate Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University
| Degree: | Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering (University of Alberta), M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, B.Sc. Engineering Physics University of Alberta |
| Email: | corey.baron@uwo.ca |
| Phone: | 519.661.2111 X 24420 |
| Office: | RRI 1250B |
| Lab Website | www.baronlab.ca |
Corey Baron is an Associate Professor of Medical Biophysics and a Robarts Scientist. His expertise includes high field diffusion MRI, MRI physics and image reconstruction, and his lab develops and applies ultra high field quantitative MRI to uncover new imaging biomarkers for and obtain a greater understanding of the brain and neurological conditions.
Research Summary
I am interested in developing MRI approaches to perform a "virtual histology" of brain tissue, and use them to learn more about the brain and how it is altered in disease. For "virtual histology", the goal is to non-invasively obtain cellular-level information about tissue health in vivo that is similar to the information obtained from invasive histological approaches, which is the most reliable approach for diagnosis and subtyping of neurological disease. In contrast to invasive techniques, with MRI we have the potential to detect abnormal tissue earlier, and to be able to monitor the progression of tissue changes and/or their response to treatment over time. To help reach these goals, we develop and optimize new MRI acquisition approaches, use them in animal models of disease to help understand how accurate our methods are, and apply them in patient cohorts to learn more about how brain tissue changes and evolves during disease progression.
