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[Picture of Seong-Gi Kim]Seong-Gi Kim
Professor, Neurobiology
University of Pittsburgh


Phone: (412) 383-8011
Fax: (412) 383-8010
Email: kimsg@pitt.edu

159 McGowan Center
3025 E. Carson Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203

Ph.D., Washington University

Research Interests

  • Development of novel MR techniques to measure physiological changes induced by neural activity.
  • Investigation of biophysics of MRI signals.
  • Measurement of physiological changes induced by neural activity.
  • Exploration of the limits of spatial and temporal resolution of functional MRI (fMRI).
  • Application of MR techniques to brain research.

Recent Publications

  • S.-G. Kim and S. Ogawa. “Insights into new techniques for high resolution functional MRI”, Curr Op Neurobiol, 12: 607-15, 2002.
  • T.Q. Duong, E. Yacoub, G. Adriany, X. Hu, K. Ugurbil, and S-G. Kim, “Microvascular BOLD contribution at 4 and 7T in the human brain: Gradient-echo and spin-echo fMRI with suppression of blood effects”, Magn. Reson. Med, 49: 1019-1027, 2003.
  • T.Q. Duong, C. Iadecola, S.-G. Kim, "Effect of hyperoxia, hypercapnia and hypoxia on cerebral interstitial oxygen tension and cerebral blood flow ", Magn. Reson. Med., 45: 61-70, 2001. Medline, PDF file
  • S.-P. Lee, T.Q. Duong, G. Yang, C. Iadecola, S.-G. Kim, "Relative Changes of Cerebral Arterial and Venous Blood Volumes during Increased Cerebral Blood Flow: Implications for BOLD fMRI", Magn. Reson. Med., 45: 791-800, 2001. PDF file
  • E.L. Barbier, A.C. Silva, S.-G. Kim, A.P. Koretsky, "Perfusion imaging using dynamic arterial spin labeling (DASL)", Magn. Reson. Med., 45: 1021-1029, 2001. PDF file
  • H. Ito, K. Takahashi, J. Hatazawa, S.-G. Kim, I. Kanno, “Changes in Human Regional Cerebral Blood Flow and Cerebral Blood Volume during Visual Stimulation Measured by Positron Emission Tomography”, J. Cereb. Blood Flow & Metab., 21: 608-612, 2001. PDF file
  • P. Dassonville, S.M. Lewis, X.-H. Zhu, K. Ugurbil, S.-G. Kim, J. Ashe, "The effect of stimulus-response compatibility on cortical motor activation", Neuroimage, 13(1):1-14, 2001.
  • I. Ronen and S.-G. Kim, "Measurement of Intravascular Sodium during increased CBF using 23Na NMR with a shift agent", NMR in Biomedicine, accepted.
  • T.Q. Duong, D.-S. Kim, K. Ugurbil and S.-G. Kim, "Localized Cerebral Blood Flow Response at Submillimeter Columnar Resolution", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 98: 10904-10909, 2001. PDF file
  • I.-Y. Choi, S.-P. Lee, S.-G. Kim, and R. Gruetter, "In vivo Measurements of Brain Glucose Transport using Reversible Michaelis-Menten Model and Simultaneous Measurements of Cerebral blood flow changes during hypoglycemia", J. Cereb. Blood Flow & Metab., 21: 653-663, 2001.