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.

Track Density Imaging (TDI)

When using MRI, in order to increase spatial resolution we need a longer acquisition time. We also need the same to increase signal to noise ratio (SNR). High tesla MRI, although it increases SNR, it has a problem with deep penetration called the skin effect. Deep structures might be difficult to visualize.

A new post-processing method called TDI seems to be useful to increase spatial resolution and it has a high SNR when imaging the brain white matter. It is also an objective technique and able to be automated. It basically calculates the number of tracts throughout the brain. It seems to help with the crossing fiber problem of fiber tracking by the use of high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI). 

A good paper in the topic is the following:

Calamante F, etal. Track-Density imaging (TDI): Super-resolution white matter imaging using whole-brain track-density mapping. NeuroImage, 53 (2010) 1233-1243.

 
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Dec 24/2010

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