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New SPECT/CT Imaging System

April 21, 2025
The Small Animal Imaging Facility recently added a new imaging system, nanoScan SPECT/CT, to its modality suite.  The system is designed and manufactured by Mediso Ltd, an industry leader in the development of preclinical imaging systems.  The new imaging system replaces our legacy SPECT/CT system and will provide enhanced SPECT/CT...

Flat panel imaging now available at BRIC SAI

April 21, 2025
The Sapphire Biomolecular Imager (Azure Biosystems Inc.) is a tabletop imaging system capable of providing near-infra-red (NIR) fluorescent imaging and phosphor imaging. It features a unique design where spectrally separated solid state lasers in combination with Avalanche Photodiodes (APD) are used to detect fluorescent signals. The system also integrates the...

Small Animal Imaging to host seminar on AI tools update from Revvity

November 14, 2024
We are excited to announce our upcoming seminar that will highlight recent developments made in AI tools specific for small animal imaging by industry leader Revvity.   Artificial Intelligence is a powerful tool that holds promise to significantly enhance workflow, accuracy, and discovery in small animal imaging.  The details for the...

Xinrui Ma wins Best Poster Presentation at the 2024 Radiology Department Research Syposium

November 14, 2024
Xinrui Ma, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at , was awarded the Best Poster Presentation at the 2024 Radiology Department Research Symposium. This marks her third consecutive year of recognition—previously earning Best Oral Presentation awards in both 2022 and 2023. Her research has spanned...

Small Animal Imaging Success at WMIC

November 14, 2024
Congratulations to Eric Livingston and Jon Frank, who were co-first authors on the best poster award for the Cardiovascular and Pulmonary section at the 2024 WMIC conference in Montreal, CA.  The poster titled, “Evaluation of the new CT contrast agent VivoVist for vascular and liver imaging in mouse models” examined...

Congrats Mingxia Liu, Assistant Professor, for Being Honored with Two Major Awards

October 23, 2023
Congratulations Mingxia Liu, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and BRIC; Director, Machine Intelligence in Biomedical Computing Lab; and Co-Director, Radiological Sciences Faculty Development. Mingxia Liu received the Outstanding Area Chair Award from the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2023). She and her colleagues also won the Best Paper Award...

Researchers receive awards at 2023 SNMMI Meeting

June 28, 2023
At the 2023 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) meeting in Chicago, trainees in the BRIC Director of Radiochemisty Research Dr. Zibo Li’s lab received awards. Dr. Xuedan Wu got the highly competitive M. J. Welch Postdoc travel award, and 1st place in CASNMMI Young Investigator Award. Dr....

New study reveals strong connection between heart and brain health

June 2, 2023
Dr. Hongtu Zhu, a BRIC faculty member and his team recently published a paper in Science (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn6598).  They used advanced techniques to study the brain and its connection with the rest of the body. Traditional brain imaging methods often overlook the interaction between the brain and other organs. In a...

Eran Dayan, PhD, Awarded Grant for Work with Parkinson’s Disease

May 30, 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Eran Dayan on receiving an RO2 grant from (NICHD) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. They are providing funding ($404,276) for his project “Targeted Motor Learning to Improve Gait for Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease.”  Over the 2-year lifespan (05/01/2023 – 04/30/2025) of...

Breaking Through Bacterial Barriers in Chronic Treatment-Resistant Wounds

May 23, 2023
Researchers at the  and the -NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, have developed a new method that combines palmitoleic acid, gentamicin, and non-invasive ultrasound to help improve drug delivery in chronic wounds that have been infected with S. aureus. Using their new strategy, researchers including BRIC faculty member Dr....