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Giorgio Bonmassar is affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research spans several subfields, including radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cognitive neuroscience, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, neurology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The primary focus of their work centers on advanced MRI techniques and applications, neurological disorders and treatments, neuroscience and neural engineering, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, as well as cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies. Other topics of research include cardiac arrhythmias and treatments, and ultrasound and hyperthermia applications.

Some of Bonmassar's recent publications are:

  • A temporal sequence of thalamic activity unfolds at transitions in behavioral arousal state, 2022, Nature Communications
  • MRI-Induced Heating of Coils for Microscopic Magnetic Stimulation at 1.5 Tesla: An Initial Study, 2020, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Development, validation, and pilot MRI safety study of a high-resolution, open source, whole body pediatric numerical simulation model, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • The Position and Orientation of the Pulse Generator Affects MRI RF Heating of Epicardial Leads in Children, 2022, 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC)
  • A comparative study of MRI-induced RF heating in pediatric and adult populations with epicardial and endocardial implantable electronic devices, 2022, 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC)

Frequent co-authors in their work include Laleh Golestanirad, Bhumi Bhusal, Hongbae Jeong, Fuchang Jiang, and Gregory Webster. These collaborators have worked with Bonmassar on multiple projects, contributing to publications over various study areas.

Bonmassar's research has been published repeatedly in prominent venues such as the Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, where they have 13 publications. Other regular publication outlets include Sensors, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), the 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), and Neuromodulation Technology at the Neural Interface.

Best Publications

  • Coupled electrophysiological, hemodynamic, and cerebrospinal fluid oscillations in human sleep

    Nina E. Fultz;Nina E. Fultz;Giorgio Bonmassar;Kawin Setsompop;Robert A. Stickgold;Robert A. Stickgold

  • Human posterior auditory cortex gates novel sounds to consciousness.

    Iiro P. Jääskeläinen;Jyrki Ahveninen;Giorgio Bonmassar;Anders M. Dale

  • Task-modulated what and where pathways in human auditory cortex

    Jyrki Ahveninen;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen;Tommi Raij;Giorgio Bonmassar

  • Bottom-Up Dependent Gating of Frontal Signals in Early Visual Cortex

    Leeland B. Ekstrom;Pieter R. Roelfsema;Pieter R. Roelfsema;John T. Arsenault;John T. Arsenault;Giorgio Bonmassar

  • Motion and ballistocardiogram artifact removal for interleaved recording of EEG and EPs during MRI.

    Giorgio Bonmassar;Patrick L. Purdon;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen;Keith Chiappa

  • Microscopic magnetic stimulation of neural tissue

    Seungwoo Lee;Giorgio Bonmassar;Shelley Fried

  • Spatiotemporal brain imaging of visual-evoked activity using interleaved EEG and fMRI recordings.

    G. Bonmassar;D.P. Schwartz;A.K. Liu;K.K. Kwong

  • Visual evoked potential (VEP) measured by simultaneous 64-channel EEG and 3T fMRI.

    Bonmassar G;Anami K;Ives J;Belliveau Jw

  • Location-specific cortical activation changes during sleep after training for perceptual learning

    Yuko Yotsumoto;Yuka Sasaki;Yuka Sasaki;Patrick Chan;Patrick Chan;Christos E. Vasios

  • Space-variant active vision: definition, overview and examples

    Eric L. Schwartz;Douglas N. Greve;Giorgio Bonmassar

  • Basal ganglia activity remains elevated after movement in focal hand dystonia.

    Anne J. Blood;Alice W. Flaherty;Ji-Kyung Choi;Fred H. Hochberg

  • RF-induced heating in tissue near bilateral DBS implants during MRI at 1.5 T and 3T: The role of surgical lead management

    Laleh Golestanirad;John E. Kirsch;Giorgio Bonmassar;Sean Downs

  • Variability and anatomical specificity of the orbitofrontothalamic fibers of passage in the ventral capsule/ventral striatum (VC/VS): precision care for patient-specific tractography-guided targeting of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

    Nikolaos Makris;Nikolaos Makris;Yogesh Rathi;Palig Mouradian;Giorgio Bonmassar

  • Metallic electrodes and leads in simultaneous EEG-MRI: Specific absorption rate (SAR) simulation studies

    Leonardo M. Angelone;Andreas Potthast;Florent Segonne;Sunao Iwaki

  • Activation of the central nervous system induced by micro-magnetic stimulation

    Hyun Joo Park;Giorgio Bonmassar;James A. Kaltenbach;Andre G. Machado

  • Local SAR near deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes at 64 and 127 MHz: A simulation study of the effect of extracranial loops.

    Laleh Golestanirad;Leonardo M. Angelone;Maria Ida Iacono;Husam Katnani

  • MRI-based anatomical model of the human head for specific absorption rate mapping

    Nikos Makris;Nikos Makris;Leonardo M. Angelone;Leonardo M. Angelone;Seann Tulloch;Scott Sorg

  • Apparatus and method for ascertaining and recording electrophysiological signals

    Giorgio Bonmassar;John W. Belliveau

  • Influence of EEG electrodes on the BOLD fMRI signal.

    Giorgio Bonmassar;Nouchine Hadjikhani;John R. Ives;Denise Hinton

  • Coupling between somatosensory evoked potentials and hemodynamic response in the rat.

    Maria Angela Franceschini;Ilkka Nissilä;Weicheng Wu;Solomon Gilbert Diamond

Frequent Co-Authors

John W. Belliveau
John W. Belliveau Harvard University
Patrick L. Purdon
Patrick L. Purdon Harvard University
Iiro P. Jääskeläinen
Iiro P. Jääskeläinen Aalto University
Jyrki Ahveninen
Jyrki Ahveninen Harvard University
Emad N. Eskandar
Emad N. Eskandar Albert Einstein College of Medicine
John R. Ives
John R. Ives University of Western Ontario
Nikos Makris
Nikos Makris Brigham and Women's Hospital
Wim Vanduffel
Wim Vanduffel Harvard University
Alexandra J. Golby
Alexandra J. Golby Brigham and Women's Hospital

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