CBBC Faculty Profile

Stanley Thomas Fricke, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience

Campus Address:
Research Building, WB-01

Mailing Address:
Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University, Box 571464 New Research Building, Room WB-01, Washington, DC 20057-1464

Tel: 202-687-4628
Fax: 253-681-9619
E-mail: stf2@georgetown.edu
Neurobiological Magnetic Resonance Imaging Laboratory

Research Interests:
Small animal magnetic resonance imaging and in vivo spectroscopy.

Research Summary:
The hypothesis that any process involving the brain will render a chemical change in the brain drives the quest for imaging chemical change in vivo. To this end contrast enhancing mechanisms that are linked to these chemical changes are studied. Various chemicals that freely flow or that are actively introduced to the brain and that come from various sources, naturally occurring or produced, can be labeled and tracked in order to better understand chemical and hydro-mechanical processes in time and space such that even complex local brain function can be described by a simple image.

Methods Used:
MRI, fMRI, MRS.

Teaching:
Evangelizing the use of MRI/MRS so that researchers and students alike might better understand medical imaging in the context of image information content and use this knowledge as a tool for their scientific investigations.