News
Upgrade to Simultaneous PET/MR Scanner
The Isaac Newton Trust and the Clinical School are jointly providing funding of £48,012 to upgrade/refurbishment our novel simultaneous PET/MR scanner. This instrument was a joint development between the Wolfson Brian Imaging Centre and the Cavendish laboratory and was initially funded by the EPSRC. Simultaneous measurement is a new approach to combine functional and morphological imaging in one instrument. The value of PET lies in its high-sensitivity to measuring biomarkers, but it does not provide consistent morphology. MR has lower sensitivity, but produces high soft-tissue contrast and our initial experiments have demonstrated some of the potential of simultaneous measure. The upgrade will provide functional MR (fMRI) and should result in the instrument being available for routine use.
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May 15, 2013
BBC News - Brain scan study to understand workings of teenage mind
Featuring MRI imaging at the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre - Researchers in Cambridge have begun a study to understand the teenage brain. Follow the link to the BBC News Website: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22510866
Feb 11, 2013
Compute/Cluster Server Consolidation.
Work has completed to consolidate our current compute and cluster servers at the WBIC. By utilising the latest server technology we have reduced our current compute/cluster server count from 76 Servers to just 8, but this will constitute an increase of approx 50% more CPU/Memory processing power available, as well as reducing our energy footprint by 80%.
Nov 12, 2012
Panorama:The Mind Reader - Unlocking My Voice
Featuring MRI imaging at the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre - scheduled for broadcast on BBC ONE-Tuesday November 13th at 10:35pm Author - Vicky Lupson
Nov 01, 2012
New high resolution NMR instrument installed in the Molecular Imaging Chemistry Laboratory (MICL)!
Author - Dr R E Canales Candela