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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology “For pioneering the development and leading the advancement of ultra-high-field MRI technology for biomedical and brain research.”
  • 2014 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Engineering/Medicine
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Engineering/Medicine
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Engineering/Medicine
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Engineering/Medicine

Overview

Kamil Ugurbil is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and specializes in the field of Medicine, with a particular emphasis on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Their research spans subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Spectroscopy.

Their work covers several prominent topics including:

  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research
  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Wireless Body Area Networks

Kamil Ugurbil has coauthored frequently with scholars such as Gregor Adriany, Essa Yacoub, Steen Moeller, Russell Lagore, and Matt Waks.

The primary venues for their publications include:

  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Examples of recent publications with year and venue are:

  • "Self-supervised learning of physics-guided reconstruction neural networks without fully sampled reference data", 2020, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • "The Human Connectome Project: A retrospective", 2021, NeuroImage
  • "Lowering the thermal noise barrier in functional brain mapping with magnetic resonance imaging", 2021, Nature Communications
  • "NOise reduction with DIstribution Corrected (NORDIC) PCA in dMRI with complex-valued parameter-free locally low-rank processing", 2020, NeuroImage
  • "Magnetic field strength dependent SNR gain at the center of a spherical phantom and up to 11.7T", 2022, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Kamil Ugurbil's contributions have been recognized through various awards and honors, including the IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology in 2019 for advancements in ultra-high-field MRI technology. They have been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2014, a Member of the National Academy of Medicine since 2007, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2005. Additionally, they are associated with The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi in the areas of Engineering and Medicine.

Best Publications

  • The WU-Minn Human Connectome Project: An Overview

    David C. Van Essen;Stephen M. Smith;M Deanna;Timothy Edward John Behrens

  • A multi-modal parcellation of human cerebral cortex

    Matthew F. Glasser;Timothy S. Coalson;Emma C. Robinson;Emma C. Robinson;Carl D. Hacker

  • INTRINSIC SIGNAL CHANGES ACCOMPANYING SENSORY STIMULATION: FUNCTIONAL BRAIN MAPPING WITH MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING

    Seiji Ogawa;David W. Tank;Ravi Menon;Jutta M. Ellermann

  • The Human Connectome Project: A data acquisition perspective

    D. C. Van Essen;Kamil Ugurbil;Edward J Auerbach

  • Functional brain mapping by blood oxygenation level-dependent contrast magnetic resonance imaging. A comparison of signal characteristics with a biophysical model.

    S. Ogawa;R. S. Menon;D. W. Tank;S. G. Kim

  • Multiband Multislice GE-EPI at 7 Tesla, With 16-Fold Acceleration Using Partial Parallel Imaging With Application to High Spatial and Temporal Whole-Brain FMRI

    Steen Moeller;Essa Yacoub;Cheryl A. Olman;Edward Auerbach

  • Resting-state fMRI in the Human Connectome Project

    S M Smith;C F Beckmann;J Andersson;E J Auerbach

  • NMR chemical shift imaging in three dimensions

    T R Brown;B M Kincaid;K Ugurbil

  • Multiplexed echo planar imaging for sub-second whole brain fmri and fast diffusion imaging

    David A. Feinberg;David A. Feinberg;Steen Moeller;Stephen M. Smith;Edward J Auerbach

  • ICA-based artefact removal and accelerated fMRI acquisition for improved resting state network imaging

    Ludovica Griffanti;Ludovica Griffanti;Gholamreza Salimi-Khorshidi;Christian F. Beckmann;Edward J. Auerbach

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging of motor cortex;hemispheric asymmetry and handedness

    Seong Gi Kim;James Ashe;Kristy Hendrich;Jutta M Ellermann

  • The Human Connectome Project's neuroimaging approach

    Matthew F Glasser;Stephen M Smith;Daniel S Marcus;Jesper L R Andersson

  • 7T vs. 4T: RF power, homogeneity, and signal-to-noise comparison in head images.

    J. T Vaughan;Michael Garwood;C. M. Collins;W. Liu

  • Functional connectomics from resting-state fMRI

    S.M. Smith;D. Vidaurre;Christian Beckmann;Christian Beckmann;Christian Beckmann;M.F. Glasser

  • Advances in diffusion MRI acquisition and processing in the Human Connectome Project.

    Stamatios N. Sotiropoulos;Saâd Jbabdi;Junqian Xu;Jesper L. R. Andersson

  • Pushing spatial and temporal resolution for functional and diffusion MRI in the Human Connectome Project

    Kamil Ugurbil;Junqian Xu;Edward J. Auerbach;Steen Moeller

  • A positive-negative mode of population covariation links brain connectivity, demographics and behavior

    S M Smith;T E Nichols;D Vidaurre;A M Winkler

  • Temporally-independent functional modes of spontaneous brain activity

    Stephen M. Smith;Karla L. Miller;Steen Moeller;Junqian Xu

  • Magnetic field and tissue dependencies of human brain longitudinal 1H2O relaxation in vivo.

    William D. Rooney;Glyn Johnson;Xin Li;Xin Li;Eric R. Cohen

  • Analysis of fMRI and finger tracking training in subjects with chronic stroke

    James R Carey;PT Teresa J Kimberley;Scott M. Lewis;Scott M. Lewis;Edward J Auerbach

  • Sustained Negative BOLD, Blood Flow and Oxygen Consumption Response and Its Coupling to the Positive Response in the Human Brain

    Amir Shmuel;Essa Yacoub;Josef Pfeuffer;Pierre Francois Van de Moortele

Frequent Co-Authors

Essa Yacoub
Essa Yacoub University of Minnesota
Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele
Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele University of Minnesota
Seong-Gi Kim
Seong-Gi Kim Sungkyunkwan University
Wei Chen
Wei Chen University of Minnesota
Xiao Hong Zhu
Xiao Hong Zhu University of Minnesota
Xiaoping Hu
Xiaoping Hu University of California, Riverside
Federico De Martino
Federico De Martino Maastricht University
Dae-Shik Kim
Dae-Shik Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Seiji Ogawa
Seiji Ogawa Osaka University
Robert J. Bache
Robert J. Bache University of Minnesota

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