Adolfo Cotter,MD

Brain-Mind Interface

Dr. Cotter practices Telemedicine in Primary Care. Conducts a competent, highly responsive Telemedicine practice since 2012, treating a variety of medical conditions from simple to very complex. Proficient with electronic medical records using a wide range of software packages and other forms of computing. Dr. Cotter also practiced Medicine doing Home Care, Urgent Care and Hospital Work.

Dr. Cotter has medical licenses in the states of Michigan, Indiana, and telehealth registration in the states of Minnesota and Florida. The links to the states medical boards are: Florida, http://www.flhealthsource.gov/telehealth/ Minnesota, https://mn.gov/boards/medical-practice/ Indiana, https://mylicense.in.gov/everification/ Michigan, https://www.michigan.gov/lara/0,4601,7-154-89334_72600_85566—,00.html

Dr. Adolfo Cotter founded Cognimetrix in 2007, motivated by a tremendous personal interest in the use of brain imaging data in the development of bionic based software to enhance creativity and intelligence.

Throughout his career, Dr. Cotter has performed brain imaging research in academic institutions such as Unversity of Toronto, University of Pennsylvania, and Emory University. He has also conducted brain imaging research for commercial companies such as at Cerebral Diagnostics.

Dr. Cotter has given lectures in Brain Imaging and attended numerous Brain Imaging meetings where he has presented his research projects. He has experience in brain imaging data acquisition and analysis for technologies such as PET, SPECT, MRI, fMRI and EEG. During his brain imaging analysis work, he has done biostatistics using a variety of software programs.

Fluorescence Molecular Tomography with Computed Tomography (FMT-CT)

FMT-CT is a new method of fluorescence imaging. It allows image quantification in vivo. Fluorescence imaging has an advantage over PET that it allows non-ionizing radiation to be used, does not need a cyclotron, and it allows the simultaneous comparison of multiple biomarkers. The problem with FMT alone is that there is difficulty with anatomical localization of the brain lesions- because of the curvature of the head and the optical heterogeneity of the tissue. Also, when imaging neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease it presents a problem because of the spread out pattern of the pathology. These problems can be overcome with the addition of X-Ray CT to FMT by addition of the anatomical data. A study that shows its success in imaging AD in mice is the following-

Hybrid FMT-CT imaging of Amyloid beta plaques in a murine Alzheimer’s disease model; Neuroimage 44, 1304-1311

Adolfo Cotter, MD

Apr 19/2010

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