Faruk Gulban
@ofgulban.bsky.social
High Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
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Github → http://github.com/ofgulban
Youtube → http://youtube.com/@ofgulban
Blog → http://thingsonthings.org
Art → http://behance.net/ofgulban
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Faruk Gulban
@ofgulban.bsky.social
· Jul 15
I've always wanted to explore fMRI time series as a smooth, real-time movie. Now I can with LayNii IDA. Plus, with voxel-wise correlations on the fly.
Fast, intuitive, and surprisingly insightful.
40 ms TR fMRI data from @practicalfmri.bsky.social !
@layerfmri.bsky.social @afni-pt.bsky.social
Fast, intuitive, and surprisingly insightful.
40 ms TR fMRI data from @practicalfmri.bsky.social !
@layerfmri.bsky.social @afni-pt.bsky.social
Reposted by Faruk Gulban
A new season of OHBM Neurosalience has started. Here's our kickoff episode where I talk with Lead Producer, Michelle Li about highlights from the past season, reaching our 100th episode, the controversial DIANA paper from last year, and what to expect.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFcq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFcq...
Neurosalience #S6E1 - Highlights of season 5 and looking ahead to season 6
YouTube video by Organization for Human Brain Mapping
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A new season of OHBM Neurosalience has started. Here's our kickoff episode where I talk with Lead Producer, Michelle Li about highlights from the past season, reaching our 100th episode, the controversial DIANA paper from last year, and what to expect.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFcq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFcq...
Reposted by Faruk Gulban
We have an exciting 4-year PhD position available @maastrichtu.bsky.social focusing on intracranial EEG recordings to investigate how hippocampal ripples contribute to human memory processing.
For more info: tinyurl.com/r5c49zuy (closing date Nov 2nd)
Please help spread the word! #neurojobs
For more info: tinyurl.com/r5c49zuy (closing date Nov 2nd)
Please help spread the word! #neurojobs
PhD Candidate: Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying human memory
PhD Candidate: Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying human memory
tinyurl.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
We have an exciting 4-year PhD position available @maastrichtu.bsky.social focusing on intracranial EEG recordings to investigate how hippocampal ripples contribute to human memory processing.
For more info: tinyurl.com/r5c49zuy (closing date Nov 2nd)
Please help spread the word! #neurojobs
For more info: tinyurl.com/r5c49zuy (closing date Nov 2nd)
Please help spread the word! #neurojobs
Reposted by Faruk Gulban
Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
October 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Reposted by Faruk Gulban
'In 1953, while working a hotel switchboard, a college graduate named Shea Zellweger began a journey of wonder and obsession that would eventually lead to the invention of a radically new notation for logic' @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/18/we...
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/18/we...
August 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
'In 1953, while working a hotel switchboard, a college graduate named Shea Zellweger began a journey of wonder and obsession that would eventually lead to the invention of a radically new notation for logic' @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/18/we...
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/18/we...
Reposted by Faruk Gulban
Mapping the dynamics of phyllotaxis in Palms.
Illustration from Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius’s Historia naturalis palmarum, issued in 10 parts, 1823-50
Illustration from Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius’s Historia naturalis palmarum, issued in 10 parts, 1823-50
July 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Mapping the dynamics of phyllotaxis in Palms.
Illustration from Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius’s Historia naturalis palmarum, issued in 10 parts, 1823-50
Illustration from Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius’s Historia naturalis palmarum, issued in 10 parts, 1823-50
One reason I developed LayNii IDA was to more easily explore my 0.35 mm multi echo human brain data. Here I’m observing blood motion artifacts across echos. The arterial signal *appear* to move across several millimeters. Best captured in short readout windows (e.g. ~3 ms readout windows in GRE).
July 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
One reason I developed LayNii IDA was to more easily explore my 0.35 mm multi echo human brain data. Here I’m observing blood motion artifacts across echos. The arterial signal *appear* to move across several millimeters. Best captured in short readout windows (e.g. ~3 ms readout windows in GRE).
Reposted by Faruk Gulban
The most primal generative experiences may be ones created by the visual cortex alone, or at least those involving the visual cortex in close collaboration with entheogenic triggers or light stimulation.
Subjective Visual Phenomena – Johann Purkinje, 1819
Subjective Visual Phenomena – Johann Purkinje, 1819
July 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The most primal generative experiences may be ones created by the visual cortex alone, or at least those involving the visual cortex in close collaboration with entheogenic triggers or light stimulation.
Subjective Visual Phenomena – Johann Purkinje, 1819
Subjective Visual Phenomena – Johann Purkinje, 1819
I've always wanted to explore fMRI time series as a smooth, real-time movie. Now I can with LayNii IDA. Plus, with voxel-wise correlations on the fly.
Fast, intuitive, and surprisingly insightful.
40 ms TR fMRI data from @practicalfmri.bsky.social !
@layerfmri.bsky.social @afni-pt.bsky.social
Fast, intuitive, and surprisingly insightful.
40 ms TR fMRI data from @practicalfmri.bsky.social !
@layerfmri.bsky.social @afni-pt.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I've always wanted to explore fMRI time series as a smooth, real-time movie. Now I can with LayNii IDA. Plus, with voxel-wise correlations on the fly.
Fast, intuitive, and surprisingly insightful.
40 ms TR fMRI data from @practicalfmri.bsky.social !
@layerfmri.bsky.social @afni-pt.bsky.social
Fast, intuitive, and surprisingly insightful.
40 ms TR fMRI data from @practicalfmri.bsky.social !
@layerfmri.bsky.social @afni-pt.bsky.social
Reposted by Faruk Gulban
One more: Marshall Xu is presenting our latest updates in mapping brainstem vasculature at poster #1759, where he did some nifty image transformations + VesselBoost segmentation to get our best results yet. Take a look!
@sbollmann.bsky.social @ofgulban.bsky.social
ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/Abst...
@sbollmann.bsky.social @ofgulban.bsky.social
ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/Abst...
June 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
One more: Marshall Xu is presenting our latest updates in mapping brainstem vasculature at poster #1759, where he did some nifty image transformations + VesselBoost segmentation to get our best results yet. Take a look!
@sbollmann.bsky.social @ofgulban.bsky.social
ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/Abst...
@sbollmann.bsky.social @ofgulban.bsky.social
ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/Abst...
Demonstrating anatomy-functional data registration of 11.7 T (!) partial-coverage human fMRI data at 0.7 × 0.7 × 0.8 mm resolution to help my colleague Alejandro Monreal-Madrigal.
Who did a great work with this spiral readout acquisition. The data quality looks quite good 👏
youtu.be/Cgf8i-Lqrac
Who did a great work with this spiral readout acquisition. The data quality looks quite good 👏
youtu.be/Cgf8i-Lqrac
Let's Analyze E006 - Register 11.7 T human fMRI data
YouTube video by ofgulban
youtu.be
June 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Demonstrating anatomy-functional data registration of 11.7 T (!) partial-coverage human fMRI data at 0.7 × 0.7 × 0.8 mm resolution to help my colleague Alejandro Monreal-Madrigal.
Who did a great work with this spiral readout acquisition. The data quality looks quite good 👏
youtu.be/Cgf8i-Lqrac
Who did a great work with this spiral readout acquisition. The data quality looks quite good 👏
youtu.be/Cgf8i-Lqrac
Devlog #1 for LayNii IDA, a GUI for meso-(f)MRI data
Featuring whole human brain MRI datasets at:
• 0.8 mm functional data
• 0.35 mm in vivo multi-echo anatomical data
• 0.075 mm ex vivo anatomical data
Chronicling the development journey of neuroimaging software.
youtu.be/ZFsBljNOcyw?...
Featuring whole human brain MRI datasets at:
• 0.8 mm functional data
• 0.35 mm in vivo multi-echo anatomical data
• 0.075 mm ex vivo anatomical data
Chronicling the development journey of neuroimaging software.
youtu.be/ZFsBljNOcyw?...
LayNii IDA Devlog #001 – A Meso-MRI GUI Is Born (Sort Of)
YouTube video by ofgulban
youtu.be
June 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Devlog #1 for LayNii IDA, a GUI for meso-(f)MRI data
Featuring whole human brain MRI datasets at:
• 0.8 mm functional data
• 0.35 mm in vivo multi-echo anatomical data
• 0.075 mm ex vivo anatomical data
Chronicling the development journey of neuroimaging software.
youtu.be/ZFsBljNOcyw?...
Featuring whole human brain MRI datasets at:
• 0.8 mm functional data
• 0.35 mm in vivo multi-echo anatomical data
• 0.075 mm ex vivo anatomical data
Chronicling the development journey of neuroimaging software.
youtu.be/ZFsBljNOcyw?...
Reposted by Faruk Gulban
Title text: "If you think curiosity without rigor is bad, you should see rigor without curiosity."
Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3101#Transcript
Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3101#Transcript
June 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Title text: "If you think curiosity without rigor is bad, you should see rigor without curiosity."
Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3101#Transcript
Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3101#Transcript
In this blog post I am exploring the strange tension between rigor, reach, and recognition in modern science.
What we gain (and lose) by just publishing the PDFs:
thingsonthings.org/just-publish...
What we gain (and lose) by just publishing the PDFs:
thingsonthings.org/just-publish...
June 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In this blog post I am exploring the strange tension between rigor, reach, and recognition in modern science.
What we gain (and lose) by just publishing the PDFs:
thingsonthings.org/just-publish...
What we gain (and lose) by just publishing the PDFs:
thingsonthings.org/just-publish...
Reposted by Faruk Gulban
At today's layer-fMRI seminar, @ofgulban.bsky.social presented stunning high resolution vein mapping tools.
It left me quite excited.
youtu.be/0V8fSjo2T2w?...
It left me quite excited.
youtu.be/0V8fSjo2T2w?...
Faruk Gulban: Meso Veins Meet Layer fMRI in High-Speed Data Exploration for the New Mesoscopic Era
YouTube video by Layer fMRI
youtu.be
May 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
At today's layer-fMRI seminar, @ofgulban.bsky.social presented stunning high resolution vein mapping tools.
It left me quite excited.
youtu.be/0V8fSjo2T2w?...
It left me quite excited.
youtu.be/0V8fSjo2T2w?...
New in LayNii v2.9.0: Introducing *LayNii IDA*, a high-performance tool for real-time interaction with ultra–high resolution MRI data. Built for speed, designed for discovery. Still early, but a big step toward the next era of 7T fMRI: higher resolution, larger datasets.
github.com/layerfMRI/La...
github.com/layerfMRI/La...
May 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
New in LayNii v2.9.0: Introducing *LayNii IDA*, a high-performance tool for real-time interaction with ultra–high resolution MRI data. Built for speed, designed for discovery. Still early, but a big step toward the next era of 7T fMRI: higher resolution, larger datasets.
github.com/layerfMRI/La...
github.com/layerfMRI/La...
In neuroimaging, we do skull stripping, but not brain stripping. Feels like favoritism.
May 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
In neuroimaging, we do skull stripping, but not brain stripping. Feels like favoritism.
[Field Note, Entry 05]
- Refrain from repeating k-space experiment [Explosion_05]. What began as signal amplification now resembles an awakening. Frequencies folded in on themselves—revealing geometries that should not exist.
- Proceeding further may breach more than spatial coherence...
- Refrain from repeating k-space experiment [Explosion_05]. What began as signal amplification now resembles an awakening. Frequencies folded in on themselves—revealing geometries that should not exist.
- Proceeding further may breach more than spatial coherence...
May 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
[Field Note, Entry 05]
- Refrain from repeating k-space experiment [Explosion_05]. What began as signal amplification now resembles an awakening. Frequencies folded in on themselves—revealing geometries that should not exist.
- Proceeding further may breach more than spatial coherence...
- Refrain from repeating k-space experiment [Explosion_05]. What began as signal amplification now resembles an awakening. Frequencies folded in on themselves—revealing geometries that should not exist.
- Proceeding further may breach more than spatial coherence...
Reposted by Faruk Gulban
The result of a large (42 authors!) collaboration:
"Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation"
arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824
TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.
"Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation"
arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824
TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.
April 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The result of a large (42 authors!) collaboration:
"Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation"
arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824
TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.
"Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation"
arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824
TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.
I think ultra-high field MRI will be shifting toward ~0.35 mm voxels, even in routine use. This isn't just sharper images. We now directly see cortical layers, veins...
It’s a leap, not a tweak. A few already crossed this threshold, but now it's becoming practical.
More: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
It’s a leap, not a tweak. A few already crossed this threshold, but now it's becoming practical.
More: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
April 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I think ultra-high field MRI will be shifting toward ~0.35 mm voxels, even in routine use. This isn't just sharper images. We now directly see cortical layers, veins...
It’s a leap, not a tweak. A few already crossed this threshold, but now it's becoming practical.
More: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
It’s a leap, not a tweak. A few already crossed this threshold, but now it's becoming practical.
More: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Reposted by Faruk Gulban
We are recruiting for 5 permanent staff positions (Prof, Senior-, Lecturer) including for 7T-MRI. Please have a look and share widely.
(Closing date: May 12)
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
(Closing date: May 12)
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283
University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...
www.nature.com
April 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
We are recruiting for 5 permanent staff positions (Prof, Senior-, Lecturer) including for 7T-MRI. Please have a look and share widely.
(Closing date: May 12)
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
(Closing date: May 12)
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Reposted by Faruk Gulban
New layer-fMRI paper discussing an omnipresent artifact in layer-fMRI EPI data: Fuzzy Ripples.
This artifact comes from short term gradient imperfections and represents the biggest limitation of layer-fMRI acquisition (wrt TRs, resolution, lower brain areas).
doi.org/10.1002/mrm....
This artifact comes from short term gradient imperfections and represents the biggest limitation of layer-fMRI acquisition (wrt TRs, resolution, lower brain areas).
doi.org/10.1002/mrm....
April 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
New layer-fMRI paper discussing an omnipresent artifact in layer-fMRI EPI data: Fuzzy Ripples.
This artifact comes from short term gradient imperfections and represents the biggest limitation of layer-fMRI acquisition (wrt TRs, resolution, lower brain areas).
doi.org/10.1002/mrm....
This artifact comes from short term gradient imperfections and represents the biggest limitation of layer-fMRI acquisition (wrt TRs, resolution, lower brain areas).
doi.org/10.1002/mrm....
Mesoscopic veins appear as dark dots peppered across the middle gray matter surface—captured in living humans.
High-precision cortex segmentation + T2*-weighted MRI at 0.35 mm isotropic resolution makes this possible.
More at: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
High-precision cortex segmentation + T2*-weighted MRI at 0.35 mm isotropic resolution makes this possible.
More at: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
March 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Mesoscopic veins appear as dark dots peppered across the middle gray matter surface—captured in living humans.
High-precision cortex segmentation + T2*-weighted MRI at 0.35 mm isotropic resolution makes this possible.
More at: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
High-precision cortex segmentation + T2*-weighted MRI at 0.35 mm isotropic resolution makes this possible.
More at: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
In vivo reconstruction of Duvernoy's postmortem vasculature images
- Fast, high-res imaging: Whole-brain 0.35 mm MRI in <7 min at 7 T
- Vessel-type specific podt-processing: Capturing large leptomeningeal, pial, and intracortical meso-veins
PDF: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Fast, high-res imaging: Whole-brain 0.35 mm MRI in <7 min at 7 T
- Vessel-type specific podt-processing: Capturing large leptomeningeal, pial, and intracortical meso-veins
PDF: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
March 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
In vivo reconstruction of Duvernoy's postmortem vasculature images
- Fast, high-res imaging: Whole-brain 0.35 mm MRI in <7 min at 7 T
- Vessel-type specific podt-processing: Capturing large leptomeningeal, pial, and intracortical meso-veins
PDF: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Fast, high-res imaging: Whole-brain 0.35 mm MRI in <7 min at 7 T
- Vessel-type specific podt-processing: Capturing large leptomeningeal, pial, and intracortical meso-veins
PDF: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Reposted by Faruk Gulban
Dieter Appelt
Partitur No. 39, 2018
At the Galerie Thomas Schulte
www.galeriethomasschulte.com/artists/34-d...
Partitur No. 39, 2018
At the Galerie Thomas Schulte
www.galeriethomasschulte.com/artists/34-d...
March 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Dieter Appelt
Partitur No. 39, 2018
At the Galerie Thomas Schulte
www.galeriethomasschulte.com/artists/34-d...
Partitur No. 39, 2018
At the Galerie Thomas Schulte
www.galeriethomasschulte.com/artists/34-d...
Reposted by Faruk Gulban
New Layer-fMRI paper: T1234.
A sequence that gets structural reference data, in 3-4 minutes. While also being optimized for applications in layer-fMRI studies.
doi.org/10.1002/mrm....
Here a the MRM highlights video with practical tricks: youtu.be/9GBP9i1V3c4
By Kenny at al.
A sequence that gets structural reference data, in 3-4 minutes. While also being optimized for applications in layer-fMRI studies.
doi.org/10.1002/mrm....
Here a the MRM highlights video with practical tricks: youtu.be/9GBP9i1V3c4
By Kenny at al.
March 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
New Layer-fMRI paper: T1234.
A sequence that gets structural reference data, in 3-4 minutes. While also being optimized for applications in layer-fMRI studies.
doi.org/10.1002/mrm....
Here a the MRM highlights video with practical tricks: youtu.be/9GBP9i1V3c4
By Kenny at al.
A sequence that gets structural reference data, in 3-4 minutes. While also being optimized for applications in layer-fMRI studies.
doi.org/10.1002/mrm....
Here a the MRM highlights video with practical tricks: youtu.be/9GBP9i1V3c4
By Kenny at al.