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.

Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy

This new technique has the advantage of visualizing in vivo tissues, in real time and at very high resolution. It can visualize cellular events that have fluorescence. It is technically very similar to fluorescence microscopy, but the beam of light comes from the side, thereby generating a selective plane illumination that is captured by a widefield microscope. It shows high tissue penetration, high sensitivity, low bleaching, and especially fast acquisition times. This is particularly useful for long studies. One significant drawback so far is that this technique has difficulties with large structures.

In my opinion Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy is particularly useful in time-consuming studies and presents an advantage over MSOT in those cases. Also, it can potentially quantify cellular events. The following is a good paper on the topic:

Huisken J, etal., Selective plane illumination microscopy techniques in developmental biology, Development 136, 2009, 1963-1975

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Jul 14/2010

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