Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Technology at Stanford

 描述：(由申请人提供)：斯坦福大学医学院NIBIB高级磁共振技术中心的更新建议。磁共振仪器制造商根据市场营销和其他因素在其产品中引入新技术，这些因素往往使调查人员无法及时获得尖端研究能力。为了填补这一空白，该中心继续在磁共振成像和光谱学的五个相关研究领域开发和提供创新技术 MRI/MRS：(1)图像重建、快速成像和RF脉冲设计；(2)MR硬件和高场；(3)身体成像方法；(4)功能/结构神经成像方法；(5)磁共振波谱和多核成像。在每个项目领域，我们都将利用斯坦福大学放射学和电气工程系的丰富经验，改进和扩大用于基础研究和临床护理的成像技术，并通过核磁共振为生物医学研究提供前沿机会。 在过去的五年里，该中心一直受到来自领先医疗和研究机构的广泛的外部赞助合作者和服务用户的激励和服务。我们将继续促进这些合作，共同丰富我们的研发努力。今天的合作项目的例子是在神经科学中开发和使用先进的功能磁共振成像方法，以及结合稀疏采样的磁共振成像采集和重建方法。 我们将继续培养学生和博士后研究员成为MR领域的未来领导者，广泛发表文章，并为我们服务的科学界和医学界提供教育机会。在该中心开发的新技术和技术能力，作为我们广泛的辅助研究的一部分，将迅速传播，供全国研究界广泛使用。出版物、会议报告、年度报告和互联网(http://camrt.stanford.edu/))将继续成为我们传播工作的支柱。

 DESCRIPTION: (provided by applicant): A renewal of the NIBIB Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Technology at Stanford University School of Medicine is proposed. Magnetic resonance instrument manufacturers introduce new technology in their products based on marketing and other factors that often preclude the timely availability of cutting edge research capabilities for investigators. To fill this gap, the Center continues to develop and make available innovative technologies in five related research areas of magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy (MRI/MRS): (1) Image Reconstruction, Fast Imaging, and RF Pulse Design, (2) MR hardware and High Field, (3) Body Imaging Methods, (4) Functional/ & Structural Neuroimaging Methods, and (5) MR Spectroscopy & Multinuclear Imaging. In each of these project areas, we will capitalize on the extensive experience in Stanford's Radiology and Electrical Engineering departments to improve and expand imaging technology for use in basic research and clinical care, and to provide cutting edge opportunities for biomedical research with MRI. Over the past five years, the Center has been motivated by and has served a wide base of extramurally sponsored collaborators and service users from leading medical and research institutions. We will continue to nurture these collaborations and mutually enrich our research and development efforts. Examples of collaborative projects today are the development and use of advanced functional MRI imaging methods in neurosciences and the incorporation of sparsely sampled MRI acquisition and reconstruction methods. We will continue to train students and postdoctoral fellows to be the future leaders in MR, to publish extensively, and to provide educational opportunities to the scientific and medical communities we serve. New technology and technological capabilities developed at the Center and as part of our extensive collateral research will be disseminated rapidly for widespread use in the national research community. Publications, conference presentations, annual reports and the internet (http://camrt.stanford.edu/) will continue to form the backbone of our dissemination efforts.