Doctors Use Electrical Implant to Aid Brain-Damaged Woman
A New York Times article by Benedict Carey about our pilot study for the use of deep braint stimulation to treat patients with traumatic brain injury.
About
I am currently a PhD candidate in the Department Biomedical Engineering, working at the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute. I hold bachelor's degrees in both Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University and Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati. I also have a master's degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Utah. My PhD thesis research has focused on the use of medical image processing and computational models to aid in therapeutic applications of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for traumatic brain injury. This research includes both human clinical trials of DBS and non-human primate animal studies that utilize tools I have developed to perform patient specific virtual deep brain stimulation surgeries which predict the activation of specific fiber pathway targets based upon stimulation location.
News
Winners of the 2019 "Show Us Your Brain Contest!"
A list of all the winners for the NIH BRAIN Initiative video and photo contest.
DBS and Traumatic Brain Injury
Recent report about our use of computational modeling techniques, here at the SCI Institute, to aid in deep brain stimulation therapy applications
Congratulations to this years “Show Us Your BRAINS” Photo Contest winner,
— Walter J. Koroshetz (@NINDSdirector) April 13, 2019
Andrew Janson from @uusci! #studyBRAIN pic.twitter.com/VY6tr7r9mx
Publications
List of recent publications
Targeting neuronal fiber tracts for deep brain stimulation therapy using interactive, patient-specific models
Genetic optimization of fuzzy logic control for coupled dynamic systems
Research Images
Collection of images related to research projects and software development
Light Me Up!
A light-based rendering of deep brain stimulation on neuronal fiber pathways for the treatment of traumatic brain injury.
Surgical Planning Tool
Tool built in SCIRun 5 used to place DBS leads alongside fiber tracts.
http://www.sci.utah.edu/cibc-software/scirun.html
Conference Presentations
A list of my most recent conference presentations. For a full archive Click Here
Society for Neuroscience (SFN) 2018: San Diego, California
Evaluating the Robustness of Fiber Pathway Activation with Deep Brain Stimulation Directional and Multi-Electrode Designs
Society for Neuroscience (SFN) 2017: Washington, D.C.
How Reliable is Tractography-Based Targeting During Central Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury?
North American Neuromodulation Society-Neural Interfaces (NANS-NIC) 2016: Baltimore, Maryland
Interactive Meshing and Simulation of Deep Brain Stimulation with Patient Specific Models
Contact Information
Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute
University of Utah
Warnock Engineering Building Room 3720
72 Central Campus Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Email: a.janson@utah.edu