Maria Guidi obtained her MSc degree in Physics from the Faculty of Physics and Life Sciences at Copenhagen University in 2013 with a thesis entitled "Scale selection in fracture patterns: A case study in columnar joints".
Then she moved to Leipzig, Germany, where she pursued her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Harald E. Möller and Dr. Laurentius Huber at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Her doctoral thesis, entitled "Physiological modulators of the BOLD response in the human primary motor cortex", focused on methods for high-resolution imaging of the functional response using a state-of-the-art Siemens Magnetom 7T MR scanner. An important outcome of this work was the extraction of a layer-dependent profile of changes in cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen consumption (CMRO2) during a finger-tapping task, for which she was awarded a Summa cum Laude merit award from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine in 2015.
Currently, she is exploring the use of calibrated BOLD combined with high-resolution VASO on a Siemens Prisma 3T for the study of brain physiology in healthy aging.
Selected Publications
1. DiNuzzo, M., Mascali, D., Bussu, G., Moraschi, M., Guidi, M., Macaluso, E., Mangia, S., & Giove, F. (2022). Hemispheric functional segregation facilitates target detection during sustained visuospatial attention. Human Brain Mapping,1–11. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25970
2. Guidi M, Huber L, Lampe L, Merola A, Ihle K, Möller HE. Cortical laminar resting-state signal fluctuations scale with the hypercapnic blood oxygenation level-dependent response. Human Brain Mapping, 2020;41:2014–2027. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24926
3. Laurentius Huber, Daniel A. Handwerker, David C. Jangraw, Gang Chen, Andrew Hall, Carsten Stüber, Javier Gonzalez-Castillo, Dimo Ivanov, Sean Thomas Marrett, Maria Guidi, Jozien Goense, Benedikt A. Poser, and Peter A. Bandettini. High-Resolution CBV-fMRI Allows Mapping of Laminar Activity and Connectivity of Cortical Input and Output in Human M1. Neuron, 96(6), 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.11.005
4. Maria Guidi, Laurentius Huber, Leonie Lampe, Claudine J. Gauthier, and Harald E. Möller. Lamina-dependent calibrated BOLD response in human primary motor cortex. NeuroImage,141:250–261, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.06.030
5. Laurentius Huber, Dimo Ivanov, Daniel A. Handwerker, Sean Marrett, Maria Guidi, Kâmil Uludağ, Peter A. Bandettini, and Benedikt A. Poser. Techniques for blood volume fMRI with VASO: From low-resolution mapping towards sub-millimeter layer-dependent applications. NeuroImage, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.11.039
6. Laurentius Huber, Dimo Ivanov, Maria Guidi, Robert Turner, Kâmil Uludağ, Harald E. Möller, and Benedikt A. Poser. Functional cerebral blood volume mapping with simultaneous multi-slice acquisition. NeuroImage, 125:1159–1168, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.10.082
7. Laurentius Huber, Jozien Goense, Aneurin J. Kennerley, Robert Trampel, Maria Guidi, Enrico Reimer, Dimo Ivanov, Nicole Neef, Claudine J. Gauthier, Robert Turner, and Harald E. Möller. Cortical lamina-dependent blood volume changes in human brain at 7 T. NeuroImage, 107:23–33,2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.11.046
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