{"id":3,"date":"2018-10-30T20:19:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T20:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vlmorgan\/homepage\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T18:26:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:26:51","slug":"homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vlmorgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering and Imaging in Epilepsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-99\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3000\/2018\/10\/header.jpg\" alt=\"header\" width=\"2031\" height=\"620\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">x<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Morgan Engineering and Imaging in Epilepsy Lab works closely with the departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery to develop Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) methods to improve neurosurgical outcomes, particularly for patients with epilepsy.\u00a0We directly support clinical care by developing and providing functional MRI to localize eloquent cortex in the brain to aid in surgical planning to minimize functional and cognitive deficits post surgery. Our research focuses on mapping functional and structural brain networks in epilepsy before and after surgical treatment. Ultimately, we aim to use MRI to fully characterize the spatial and temporal impacts of seizures across the brain to optimize management of epilepsy patients. The Morgan lab has on-going collaborations with the<\/span> <span style=\"color: #006682\"><strong><a style=\"color: #006682\" href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/bien\/\">Brain Imaging and Electrophysiology Network<\/a> <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">(Englot), the<\/span> <span style=\"color: #006682\"><strong><a style=\"color: #006682\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.vanderbilt.edu\/eecs\/brochure\/our-research\/mip.php\">Medical Imaging Processing Laboratory<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\">(Dawant),<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000\">the<\/span> <span style=\"color: #006682\"><strong><a style=\"color: #006682\" href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/\">MASI Laboratory<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000\">(Landman), and researchers throughout the Vanderbilt Institute of Imaging Science<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000\">(<\/span><span style=\"color: #006682\"><strong><a style=\"color: #006682\" href=\"https:\/\/vuiis.vumc.org\/\">VUIIS<\/a><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000120\">).<\/span><span style=\"color: #000120\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"> In addition, we are part of the unique Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering<\/span> (<span style=\"color: #006682\"><strong><a style=\"color: #006682\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/\">VISE<\/a><\/strong><\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">x<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-402\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3000\/2018\/10\/Annotation-2020-07-01-122256-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Annotation 2020-07-01 122256\" width=\"723\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3000\/2018\/10\/Annotation-2020-07-01-122256-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3000\/2018\/10\/Annotation-2020-07-01-122256.jpg 703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>x The Morgan Engineering and Imaging in Epilepsy Lab works closely with the departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery to develop Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) methods to improve neurosurgical outcomes, particularly for patients with epilepsy.\u00a0We directly support clinical care by developing and providing functional MRI to localize eloquent cortex in the brain to aid in surgical&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6891,"featured_media":99,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vlmorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vlmorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vlmorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vlmorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vlmorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vlmorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vlmorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vlmorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vlmorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vlmorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}