Patrik Andersson

Patrik Andersson studied Mathematics and Physics at University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He there finished his MSc in Mathematics with a thesis "Structure Enhancement and Network Detection in Dermatoscopic Images Using the Wavelet Transform". He then moved to the Netherlands to finish his MSc in Physics at VU University in Amsterdam on the topic "Analysis and Correction of Cardiac and Respiratory Artifacts in Functional MRI". He is currently working as a PhD student at the Image Sciences Institute at UMC Utrecht.

Position:

PhD student at the Imaging Sciences Institute

Supervised by Max viergever, Nick Ramsey, Josien Pluim

Funds

UMC Utrecht Strategic Impulse

Duration project

2005 - 2010

Project

Realtime fMRI at 7 Tesla for Brain-Conmputer Interfacing

Content

The topic of his research is real-time fMRI applied on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) and is done in collaboration with Nick Ramsey. One of the goals of his project is to further incorporate fMRI in BCI research by implementing methods allowing to easily set up an experiment with a real-time feedback loop. Real-time feedback facilitates finding the best control task for individual BCI users and lets them practice them. This is especially important in the case of invasive BCI technologies where as much as possible must be known before surgery. Another research goal is to investigate the possibility of using visuospatial attention as a BCI control task.

Cooperation within UMC Utrecht

7T group