
Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Position: PHD Student
ORCID: 0000-0002-6122-3238
bernardo.campilho@meduniwien.ac.at
Keywords
Biomedical Research; Brain; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Ultrasonography
Research group(s)
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Head: Christian Windischberger
Research Area: Mapping the functional organization of the human brain
Members:
Research interests
I am working in the field of non-invasive neuromodulation technologies, specifically focusing on Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation (TUS). My interdisciplinary team and I are collaborating across European institutions to address the critical gaps in current neuromodulation methods! We hope that our project helps make TUS an efficacious treatment option for a range of neurological and psychiatric conditions.
Techniques, methods & infrastructure
A big clinical limitation of TUS - and one of the main reasons it is not used yet - is that there is no good target confirmation. At present, there exists no reliable method to empirically validate the effectiveness of ultrasound focusing. To overcome this obstacle, we are developing a cutting-edge neuronavigated TUS-MRI system that incorporates advanced MRI-guided planning and closed-loop application control. Our final prototype will feature MR-compatible 256-element TUS transducers for superior 3D-steering and a tailored 32-channel MR-receiver coil for accelerated imaging. The system also incorporates MR-Acoustic Radiation Force Imaging (MR-ARFI) for closed-loop target validation.
Selected publications
- Campilho, B., Deal, M. and Bossini, D. (2022) ‘Atomic diffusion in solar-like stars with MESA’, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 659, p. A162. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140821.
- Moedas, N. et al. (2022) ‘Atomic diffusion and turbulent mixing in solar-like stars: Impact on the fundamental properties of FG-type stars’, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 666, p. A43. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243210.