Nayid Jana
Program: Neurosciences
Current advisor: Rotating in the lab of Tammie L.S. Benzinger, MD, PhD
Undergraduate university: University of Puerto Rico-Cayey
Research summary
This summer I rotated in the lab of Dr. Tammie Benzinger. My work focused on the evaluation of T2/FLAIR hyperintense brain lesions using qualitative and quantitative techniques. For the qualitative study, we hypothesized that a low field MRI (Siemens FreeMax) will identify features of Amyloid Related Imaging Abnormality (ARIA) such as FLAIR hyperintense lesions and microbleeds on GRE/T2* and SWI sequences. We set up a reader study to compare brain MRIs from this scanner to those from 1.5 and 3 T MRIs performed on the same clinical patients. For the quantitative study, we will evaluate brain MRIs from participants in a multiple sclerosis study, MS-PATHS, to evaluate how lesions expand in three dimensions.
Graduate publications