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Ravi S. Menon

Name: Ravi S.

Surname: Menon

Section: Canada Research Chair in Functional and Molecular Imaging

Qualification: • B.Sc. Physics (Hons), University of British Columbia, 1984 • M.Sc.(A) Medical Physics,  McGill University, 1986 • Ph.D. Medicine, University of Alberta, 1990

Education and career

• Top 40 under 40 and Best of the Top 40 under 40, Caldwell partners/Globe and Mail, 2002 • Dean’s Award of Excellence, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2004 • Canada Research Chair (Tier 2), 2001 • Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), 2005 • Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), 2012 Publications Functional connectivity of the frontal eye fields in humans and macaque monkeys investigated with resting-state fMRI. Hutchison RM, Gallivan JP, Culham JC, Gati JS, Menon RS, Everling S. J Neurophysiol. 2012 Feb 1. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 22298826 Slice-by-slice B(1) (+) shimming at 7 T. Curtis AT, Gilbert KM, Martyn Klassen L, Gati JS, Menon RS. Magn Reson Med. 2011 Dec 27.  [Epub ahead of print]  PMID: 22213531 A conformal transceive array for 7-T neuroimaging. Gilbert KM, Belliveau JG, Curtis AT, Gati JS, Klassen LM, Menon RS. Magn Reson Med. 2011 Aug 16.  [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 22190335 The great brain versus vein debate. Menon RS.Neuroimage. 2011 Sep 13. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21939776

Research focus

My research area lies in the development of technology for ultra high field functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as well as understanding what it measures and tells us about human brain  function. Driven by neuroscience questions posed by our colleagues, we develop new hardware (such as new radio frequency coils) and software solutions (novel pulse sequences) for fMRI. We utilize MRI scanners at 3 Tesla (T), 7 T and 9.4 T to understand the normal anatomy and function of both humans and animals as well as to understand the changes in anatomy and function that accompany disease and degeneration in the brain. These studies are done with colleagues in the hospitals and University, most notably in the Centre for Brain and Mind.

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