Clinical Research Imaging Centre

我们的目标是建立一个最先进的综合临床研究成像中心，使爱丁堡大学能够进行转化临床研究，特别是在国际知名的心血管科学、炎症研究、生殖生物学和临床脑科学中心。我们的愿景是，3T全身磁共振成像与正电子发射和计算机断层扫描成像的共同定位将提供无与伦比的资源，这将显著加强临床研究和实验医学，在这个世界领先的基础和临床科学家的高效和独特的分组中，并直接进入新建立的临床研究网络。我们正在大学新的女王医学研究所建立临床研究成像中心，并且已经获得了正电子发射和计算机断层扫描的联合提供，以及专用的现场回旋加速器。我们请求提供3T全身磁共振成像扫描仪和相关支持费用的资金和支持。这种增强的磁共振能力将建立在该大学通过脑成像研究中心在爱丁堡建立的非常成功的临床神经成像基础设施的基础上，并补充并置的生物医学磁共振成像单元及其临床前7特斯拉磁共振成像扫描仪。

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.