1. Seiji Ogawa is a Japanese biophysicist and neuroscientist known for discovering the technique that underlies Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
11 Facts About Seiji Ogawa
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Seiji Ogawa is regarded as the father of modern functional brain imaging.
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Seiji Ogawa determined that the changes in blood oxygen levels cause its magnetic resonance imaging properties to change, allowing a map of blood, and hence, functional, activity in the brain to be created.
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Seiji Ogawa was the first scientist who demonstrated that the functional brain imaging is dependent on the oxygenation status of the blood, the BOLD effect.
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In 2020, Ogawa was appointed as Osaka University Distinguished Honorary Professor.
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Seiji Ogawa is the second scholar to receive this title after Nobel Prize winner Yoichiro Nambu.
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Seiji Ogawa trained as an applied physicist in the University of Tokyo and later earned a Ph.
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Professor Seiji Ogawa joined NRI in 2008 as a Distinguished Professor and leading the fMRI research in conjunction with the new 7.0T MRI system.
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Seiji Ogawa has received several awards for his magnetic resonance work, is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and has been awarded the Japan Prize.
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Seiji Ogawa discovered the principle which is widely used to functionally and physiologically image the brain, particularly the human brain.
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Seiji Ogawa built on the technology of magnetic resonance imaging by using the difference in blood oxygenation level to generate a brain map corresponding to blood flow to active neurons.