Our Mission

To facilitate research, development, and clinical translational studies within the Department of Radiology and collaborating departments in the field of MR imaging (MRI) and MR spectroscopy (MRS)

About Us

The RTR MRI core consists of a start-of-the-art whole-body human scanner (Philips Ingenia 3T MR) and a small animal Desktop scanner (Aspect 1T MR). Philips Ingenia is a state-of-the-art MR scanner that includes dual-transmit and digital architecture for signal reception. This scanner enables the development and evaluation of new MRI/MRS techniques for improved diagnosis and understanding of the pathophysiology of disease.

Aspect 1T scanner enables sequential imaging of small animals (e.g., mice), without sacrificing them, for longitudinal monitoring of disease progression and/or therapy response. Being cited next to the small animal PET/CT and SPECT/CT scanners, this allows superposition of images for multimodality analysis.