Bringing functional magnetic resonance imaging to Vancouver Island

在过去十年左右的时间里，维多利亚大学组建了一个世界级的认知大脑研究团队，但这些科学家并不喜欢使用功能性磁共振成像（fMRI），这已经成为研究活跃人脑的必备条件。这类似于在没有望远镜的情况下建立一个国际知名的天文学家小组。我们建议升级附近皇家朱比利医院的一台1.5特斯拉核磁共振成像仪，使其能够进行功能性神经成像。由心理学系的认知和脑科学项目领导，并与来自整个大学的教师，以及来自温哥华岛卫生局（VIHA）和BC癌症机构（BCCA）的医生和技术人员的积极参与，拟议的设施将建立在UVic在记忆，学习，心理健康，衰老，成瘾，临床神经心理学，电生理学方法，和计算机建模。这项基础研究将由VIHA和BCCA医生的医学研究补充。

Over the past decade or so the University of Victoria has assembled a team of world-class cognitive brain researchers, but these scientists do not enjoy access to what has become the sina qua non for studying the active human brain: functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This is akin to building an internationally renowned group of astronomers with no telescope. We propose to upgrade a 1.5 Tesla MRI machine housed at the nearby Royal Jubilee Hospital to make it capable of functional neuroimaging. Led by the Department of Psychology's Cognition and Brain Science program, and with the active involvement of faculty from across the University, as well as doctors and technicians from the Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA) and the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA), the proposed facility will build on UVic's existing strengths in memory, learning, mental health, aging, addiction, clinical neuropsychology, electrophysiological methods, and computational modelling. This basic research will be complemented by medically oriented research by VIHA and BCCA doctors.