Core leaders and members of the technical  advisory committee can advise investigators:

• on experimental planning (optimal experimental approaches, image manipulation, and statistical analysis, coordinating with Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, and Environmental Health and Safety),
  
• implementing investigations (access to instruments and scheduling experiments),
  
• data analysis and validation and data archiving.

These experts can assist with proof of principle investigations:

• such as pulse programming and implementation for novel MRI experiments,
  
• design and acquisition or
  
• building of MR coils, choice of reporter molecules and /or genes,
  
• radiolabeling procedures and
  
• synthesis of ligands.

Once experimental protocols have been established, routine investigations will be performed on a cost recovery basis by dedicated skilled technicians