MRI scanner
arrives, June 2007
| The campus was greeted with the delivery of a 28,000
pound baby on June 25. Using an enormous crane, dollies and steel
planking a team of movers installed a new Siemens 3 Tesla whole body
imaging system into the Psychology East building. With only inches
to spare, the magnet was gently lowered into a deep pit adjacent to
the building, then squeezed through a hole into its final home in
the basement of the building. |
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The scanner is the focal piece of
the UCSB Brain Imaging Center and will be used primarily for human
imaging to understand the relationships between cognition, structural
anatomy and functional organization of the brain. Research involves
both healthy volunteers and patient populations. |
| Directed by Scott Grafton MD of the Department of Psychology,
the center is a core research facility for the entire campus. Support
for developing the UCSB Brain Imaging Center includes a 1 million
dollar award from the National Science Foundation, Institutional support
and recharge from user grants. The Center involves a collective of
investigators from across the UCSB campus. |
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