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Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center — Center for Advanced Imaging

The Center for Advanced Imaging is a 12,000 square-foot research and clinical imaging facility located in the Health Sciences Center. The imaging center currently operates a General Electric Advance PET scanner, a General Electric PETtrace cyclotron, and a General Electric 1.5T Signa LX MR scanner with functional imaging capabilities.

Research at the Center includes basic and clinical research topics, including the development of new imaging instrumentation and of new PET radiotracers, the mapping of the human brain (with PET and functional MRI), and the measurement of alterations in brain neurochemistry caused by chronic diseases such as Parkinson's. Areas of clinical research interest include studies of cancer staging using PET.

The Center for Advanced Imaging is currently undergoing a major expansion in the area of human brain mapping using functional MRI. A General Electric 3T Signa Horizon LX functional MRI system is the centerpiece of the expansion.

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