Cambridge, England is already well known for being home to some of the best universities and hospitals, doctors, scientists, and students, and now it can also boast that its holds some of the best brain scanning equipment in the world too. The new equipment is being housed in the newly refurbished Wolfsun Brain Imaging Centre in the University of Cambridge and is some of the world’s most advanced and most powerful MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and PET (positron emission tomography) scanners.
This will allow researchers to delve much more deeply into the images of cancer, the finer details of the cortex, and analyze individual chemicals within the brain (neurotransmitters) to see how they play a part in the development of both depression and schizophrenia. All three machines that have been installed there are groundbreaking and nowhere else in the world holds all three.
The three machines are:
- Siemens 7T Terra MRI scanner
- GE Healthcare MET/MR scanner
- Hyperpolarized
The Siemens 7T Terra MRI scanner allows researchers to see very intricate details of the brain as tiny as a grain of sand, whereas the PET/MR scanner has been designed to study how cancer grows, spreads, and responds to treatment, more closely. The third machine, the hyperpolarised, again focuses on cancer, but this machine has the ability to enable scientists to determine if a particular treatment is working or not.
All three of these machines are vital for the research and development of cancer treatments and therapy. And, Cambridge residents, students, workers and all those connected with the Wolfsun Brain Imaging Centre are very proud to have them in their city, where hopefully, there will be some groundbreaking discoveries some day soon.
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