Advanced Imaging Research Center (AIRC) at the Lamfrom Biomedical Research Building
The Oregon Health & Science University Advanced Imaging Research Center (AIRC) at the Lamfrom Biomedical Research Building on OHSU’s Marquam Hill Campus is equipped with cutting-edge MRI technology, supporting research on various conditions such as brain cancer, strokes, multiple sclerosis, and dementia.
Ferret brain age research
Christopher Kroenke, Ph.D., researches brain function and connectivity mapping using electrophysiology. (Courtesy of Christopher Kroenke)
Mouse research
A brain image recently obtained on a live mouse with 23 micron in-plane resolution, using the AIRC 12T MRI animal system with the cryoprobe accessory. (Courtesy of Martin Pike)
Advanced Imaging Research Center, AIRC, at OHSU
William Rooney, Ph.D., is the director of the Advanced Imaging Research Center, AIRC, at OHSU. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)
Charles Springer at AIRC
Charles Springer, Ph.D. with two images of metabolic activity in the human brain. Picture right is a quantitative PET image after an extensive period of uptake of a radioisotope-labeled sugar infused into the blood. Picture left is a MADI image – made in minutes without the injection of anything. It has higher spatial resolution than the PET image. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)
Donación de 1 millón de dólares a OHSU ayudará a tratar necesidades locales de cáncer en todo Oregón
$1 million donation to OHSU will help address local cancer needs across Oregon
La tecnología CRISPR de edición genética de OHSU tratará mortal afección cardiaca
Ken Hawkins, un jubilado de 77 años del sur de Oregón, viajó a la Oregon Health & Science University para participar en un ensayo clínico. En él se prueba una técnica que bloquea la producción de una proteína que ocasiona una enfermedad letal conocida como amiloidosis por transtiretina. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)
OHSU tests CRISPR gene-editing technology to treat deadly heart condition
