The Godinez Lab aims to translate novel in vivo medical imaging techniques from bench-to-bedside, with emphasis on treating disease in the brain and the heart.
Novel biomedical imaging methods are developed in the lab through fundamentally advancing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging instrumentation, acquisition, and image processing.
Some example projects include the use of parallel transmit MR for the safe visualization of endovascular devices and the development of MR imaging protocols for real-time interventional procedures in the heart and translating these methods to applications in neuro-interventions. The lab is also developing a PET insert for simultaneous PET/MR imaging in small animals. Research directions include the combined use of PET/MR to explore MR based therapeutic biomarkers in neuro-oncologic disease.