MR physicist Atsushi Takahashi is responsible for technological oversight of the MRI scanners and for the development of new imaging methods. He collaborates with users to develop and optimize new pulse sequences and provides advice on all aspects of MR imaging. His own research focuses on the development of novel image acquisition and reconstruction methods, characterizing the MR hardware to improve fMRI data quality and using MRI to make quantitative measurements of physiologically and metabolically significant processes.