The Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre (WBIC) is a UK Biomedical Imaging Centre, located at

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, on the

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at the southwestern end of

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. It is a division of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences of the

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. The Centre opened in 1996 with a GE

PET scanner Positron emission tomography (PET) is a functional imaging technique that uses radioactive substances known as radiotracers to visualize and measure changes in metabolic processes, and in other physiological activities including blood flow, ...

, followed soon after by a Bruker 3T

MRI Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the body. MRI scanners use strong magnetic fields, magnetic field gradients, and radio waves ...

system. After a major programme of infrastructure investment and redevelopment, funded by the Medical Research Council and the University of Cambridge. The facilities now comprise a Siemens 7T Terra MRI scanner, a Siemens 3T PrismaFit scanner, a Siemens 3T SkyraFit scanner, a GE 3T PET/MR Signa scanner and a hyper-polariser system. Research conducted within the Centre falls broadly into the categorisations of

positron emission tomography Positron emission tomography (PET) is a functional imaging technique that uses radioactive substances known as radiotracers to visualize and measure changes in Metabolism, metabolic processes, and in other physiological activities including bl ...

magnetic resonance Magnetic resonance is a process by which a physical excitation (resonance) is set up via magnetism. This process was used to develop magnetic resonance imaging and Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy technology. It is also being used to ...

and

radiochemistry Radiochemistry is the chemistry of radioactive materials, where radioactive isotopes of elements are used to study the properties and chemical reactions of non-radioactive isotopes (often within radiochemistry the absence of radioactivity leads to ...

. It also provides research platforms for neuroscience themes, including dementia, stroke and neurosurgery as well as cognitive neuroscience.

People

* Prof Ed Bullmore — Chairman and Clinical Director * Prof Franklin I. Aigbirhio — Professor of Molecular Imaging Chemistry * Dr T. Adrian Carpenter — Director of Magnetic Resonance * Dr Tim D. Fryer — Director of PET Physics * Dr Guy B. Williams — Director of Information Processing

References

External links

Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre
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