Research Specialties
We are a multi-disciplinary, MRI and clinical research team offering expertise in:
What we do
We operate out of UPMC WPIC (Pittsburgh, PA) in the heart of Pittsburgh's oldest behavioral health center. At the University of Pittsburgh Dr. Prasad holds dual appointments in the psychiatry and engineering departments. For veterans studies we collaborate with the Pittsburgh Health System VA.
We work closely with the Pittsburgh 7 Tesla Radio Frequency Lab to acquire ultra-high field high-resolution multimodal MRI data. The modalities include T1w, T2w, diffusion weighted imaging including NODDI, functional MRI, susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) and multinuclear spectroscopy (1H and 31P).
High resolution data, large sample sizes, and multimodal MRI acquisitions mean long- and more complex- data processing methods and advanced analytical approaches. We house several high-end workstations and a cluster computer in our lab. We have access to the supercomputing resources like Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) and University of Pittsburgh's Center for Research Computing to enable high-throughput data processing and analysis, including extensive ongoing mathematical modeling research.