Clinical Research Imaging Centre

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Our objective is to establish a state-of-the-art integrated Clinical Research Imaging Centre toenable translational clinical research performed within the University of Edinburgh andparticularly within the internationally renowned Centres for Cardiovascular Science, InflammationResearch, Reproductive Biology and Clinical Brain Sciences. Our vision is that the co-localisationof 3T whole-body magnetic resonance imaging with positron emission and computedtomography imaging will provide an unparalleled resource which will markedly enhance clinicalresearch and experimental medicine within this highly productive and unique grouping of worldleadingbasic and clinical scientists, and feed directly into the newly established ClinicalResearch Networks.We are establishing the Clinical Research Imaging Centre in the University’s new Queen’sMedical Research Institute and have already secured the provision of combined positronemission and computed tomography, and a dedicated on-site cyclotron. We request funding andsupport for the provision of a 3T whole-body magnetic resonance imaging scanner andassociated support costs. This enhanced magnetic resonance capability will build upon theUniversity’s highly successful clinical neuroimaging infrastructure already established inEdinburgh through the Brain Imaging Research Centre and complement the juxtaposedBiomedical Magnetic Resonance Imaging Unit with its pre-clinical 7 Tesla magnetic resonanceimaging scanner.