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Congratulations Dr. Li Wang on his awarded K01 grant!

December 28, 2018
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex developmental disability, characterized by deficits in social interaction, language skills, repetitive stereotyped behaviors, and restricted interests.

Congratulations Dr. Dinggang Shen!

December 28, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Dinggang Shen, recently named a Fellow of The International Association for Pattern Recognition! The IAPR is an international association of non-profit, scientific or professional organizations concerned with pattern recognition, computer vision, and image processing, which aims to increase understanding among practitioners of all nations of the role...

BRIC is hosting the 3rd Triangle Imaging Symposium

September 13, 2017
The 3rd Triangle Imaging Symposium will be hosted by the BRIC on April 18, 2018. Please mark your calendar. (Click Title to read more)

Imaging Alzheimer Animal Models

September 13, 2017
Earlier this year, a study proposed by Dr. Todd Cohen (PI) and Dr. Rick Meeker (Co-PI) was selected by the SOM for funding as ECBR grant award. The study is titled “Inflammation, Aging and Alzheimer Disease Vulnerability”. (Click Title to read more)

Publications Using Imaging Services and Acknowledgement

September 13, 2017
Please always include our Cancer Core Grant support in you acknowledgement. We also need your help to update our publication records with your imaging work done in the core. To go to our online publication entry form. (Click Title to read more)

Large Animal Imaging Capabilities

September 13, 2017
The SAI facility has developed an IACUC protocol for the core to image on large animals (dogs, cats, pigs, and non-human-primates). We have successfully conducted several PET/CT and PET/MRI studies on dogs, pigs and rhesus macaques. For more information including transportation, housing, SOPs, etc, please contact Dr. Hong Yuan (yuanh@med.unc.edu).

Imaging Rate Adjustment for External Studies

September 13, 2017
Due to the adjustments on the facilities and administrative (F&A) cost (increased from 52% to 55.5%), our external imaging rates will be increased accordingly. This will affect external users for future studies. Our imaging rates for internal users have not changed. These rates go into effect immediately.

The New Animal PET/CT System

September 13, 2017
The Small Animal Imaging facility will be getting a new PET/CT System in October. The system is funded by a recently awarded NIH high-end instrumentation (HEI) S10 grant (S10-OD023611-01, PI: Zibo Li, PhD). The new system will replace the old GE eXplore Vista PET/CT system, and is expected to have...