News agency Thomson Reuters has predicted a Nobel Prize for Seiji Ogawa, director of the Ogawa Laboratories for Brain Function Research at the Hamano Life Science Research Foundation in Tokyo.
Ogawa was nominated for the award for his fundamental discoveries leading to functional MRI (fMRI), which has -- in Thomson Reuters' words -- "revolutionized basic research in brain science and diagnosis in clinical medicine."
This year's Nobel Prize winners in the sciences and in economics are scheduled to be announced from October 5 to October 12.
According to his biography on the American Physical Society Web site, Ogawa has conducted research in several areas of brain fMRI, including blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) contrast for assessing brain function, functional mapping, and spatiotemporal image patterns in functioning or nonfunctioning of the brain.
In the early 1970s, Ogawa studied the structure-function relation in proteins by MR spectroscopy on cooperative oxygen binding in hemoglobin. From the mid-1970s to mid-1980s, he developed in vivo MR spectroscopy of cellular metabolism.
He received the Gold Medal award in 1995 from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine for scientific achievement.
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