Advanced MRI infrastructure
CISC houses a Siemens Prisma 3T MRI system designed for high-performance research and clinical imaging and supported by specialised equipment for functional imaging, physiological monitoring and behavioural experiments.
It also houses a 50mT ultra-low-field MRI scanner, designed for research into next-generation portable MRI technologies.
Researchers at CISC have strong expertise in quantitative MRI method development, enabling imaging approaches that provide deeper insight into tissue physiology and disease processes.
Examples include:
- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS)
- Arterial Spin Labelling (ASL)
- diffusion MRI (e.g. DTI)
- quantitative magnetisation transfer
- T1 mapping
- functional MRI (fMRI).
These techniques allow researchers to measure subtle biological changes in vivo that are often invisible using conventional MRI.