Core A: Imaging Core

埃默里分子和翻译成像研究中心的成像核心(A核心)将 提供与最先进技术相关的集中访问、质量控制、专业知识和咨询服务 使用正电子发射断层扫描(PET)、磁共振(MR)技术和 光学成像方法。在这方面，核心是高度一体化的，被所有三个人利用 研究项目，作为职业发展计划应用部分的生命实验室， 到所有第一年试点项目。核心A还将与每个 其他3个核心资源。 可供EMTIC调查人员使用的大量物理和仪器资源包括 分辨率人PET(项目1；试点4)、微型PET(项目2、试点5)、高场动物和 人类磁共振系统(项目#3，试点#3，#5)和光学成像系统(试点#1，#2)。核心A 将提供基础设施，以确保协调访问、支持和加速 优化和翻译细胞和分子成像所需的方法学进展 将技术应用于临床环境。 核心A的使命和目标包括支持EMTIC的日常需求 以及促进新方法和成像技术的开发，包括 磁性纳米粒子示踪技术的改进及其实现和协议设计 原型结合了MR/PET设备，Emory将是北美第一个安装该设备的设备 (飞行员5号)。

The Imaging Core (Core A) of the Emory Molecular and Translational Imaging Research Center will provide centralized access, quality control, expertise and consultation services related to state-of-theart imaging with positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance (MR) techniques, and optical imaging methods. In this 'regard, the Core is highly integrative, being utilized by all three Research Projects, as a life laboratory for the applied portion of the Career Development Program, and by all year 1 Pilot Projects. Core A will also have vital collaborative interactions with each of the other 3 core resources. Substantial physical and instrumentation resources available to EMTIC investigators include high resolution human PET (Project #1; Pilot #4), microPET (Project #2, Pilot #5), high-field animal and human MR systems (Project #3, Pilots #3, #5), and optical imaging systems (Pilots #1, #2). Core A will provide the infrastructure to ensure coordinated access, support and acceleration of methodological developments needed to optimize and translate cellular and molecular imaging techniques to clinical settings. The mission and objectives of Core A includes supporting both the day-to-day needs of EMTIC investigators as well as fostering the development of new methods and imaging techniques including refinement of magnetic nanoparticle tracer technology and implementation and protocol design for a prototype combined MR/PET device, for which Emory will be the first North American installation (Pilot #5).