Brain Mechanics and Fluid Intelligence: MR Elastography in the INSIGHT Study

Curtis Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a method for noninvasively measuring the mechanical properties of the human brain. The MRE research team at the Beckman Institute has made significant advances in the capabilities of MRE to study neuroanatomical regions in the brain, and have found success for applications in clinical and cognitive neuroimaging. This project proposes to add the high-resolution MRE protocol to an ongoing study of brain training funded by IARPA (the INSIGHT study at Beckman), in order to explore tissue structure and its relation to fluid intelligence. This project will rely heavily on the Blue Waters system to handle the computational burden of processing many unique datasets in a short time.