Birth Name:

Seiji Ogawa

Male

Birth Date:

Fri, Jan 19, 1934

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Age:

90

Zodiac Sign:

Capricorn

Astrology Data:

Sun

28°

Cap

22'

About Seiji Ogawa

Seiji Ogawa (小川 誠二 Ogawa Seiji, born January 19, 1934) is a Japanese biophysicist and neuroscientist known for discovering the technique that underlies Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). He is regarded as the father of modern functional brain imaging.[citation needed] He determined that the changes in blood oxygen levels cause its magnetic resonance imaging properties to change, allowing a map of blood, and hence, functional, activity in the brain to be created. This map reflected which neurons of the brain responded with electrochemical signals to mental processes. He was the first scientist who demonstrated that the functional brain imaging is dependent on the oxygenation status of the blood, the BOLD effect. The technique was therefore called Blood oxygenation level-dependent or BOLD contrast. Functional MRI (fMRI) has been used to map the visual, auditory, and sensory regions and moving toward higher brain functions such as cognitive functions in the brain.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Seiji Ogawa: Sun 28 Capricorn, Moon 17 Pisces, Mercury 27 Capricorn, Venus 23 Aquarius, Mars 17 Aquarius, Jupiter 22 Libra, Saturn 16 Aquarius, Uranus 23 Aries, Neptune 12 Virgo, Pluto 23 Cancer, Mercury Square Uranus, Sun Opposition Pluto, Sun Square Uranus, Venus Conjunct Mars, Mercury Opposition Pluto, Sun Conjunct Mercury, Sun Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Mercury Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Venus Trine Jupiter, Venus Conjunct Saturn, Venus Sextile Uranus, Venus Quincunx Pluto, Mars Conjunct Saturn, Jupiter Opposition Uranus, Jupiter Square Pluto, Uranus Square Pluto

Categories related to Seiji Ogawa: Living people, People from Tokyo, January 19 births, Stanford University alumni, University of Tokyo alumni, Foreign Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy, 21st-century Japanese scientists, Japanese biophysicists, 1934 births, Japanese medical researchers, Japanese neuroscientists

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