This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. A tour of the Center for In Vivo Microscopy educates visitors about the principles of MRI, animal-use protocols, and current research issues. Demonstrations of animal preparation stress animal care policies and the value of animal models for research purposes. Over this last year, short tours were given, as well as more extended training sessions about how to operate the MR systems, build RF coils, monitor and support small animals, and use our visualization tools. A list of visitors is included below: July 21, 2005: Jack Skinner (Fellow, Duke Biomedical Engineering) interested in Medical Physics program, tour of center. August 1, 2005: Tour of center for Drs. Terrance Hawk (King of Prussia facility) and Ana Criado (Verona, Italy facility) from GlaxoSmithKline, particularly interested in our animal handling procedures. August 15-18, 2005: Ryan Nicholas Mello, graduate of Duke Medical Physics program; job shadowing to see applications of medical physics to small animal imaging. September 22, 2005: Duke Biomedical Engineering student society--30 freshmen; tour of center with special emphasis on MR, micro-CT/DSA, software demonstrations with neurological and embryo imaging. October 7, 2005: Physics professor Brain Saam, Phd (Associate Professor, Physics, University of Utah) presented at the Duke University Nuclear Physics Seminar on advances in the polarization of 3He for imaging alligator and bird lungs; tour of center with emphasis on hyperpolarization equipment and applications. October 19, 2005: 6th grade students in local BOOST program for mentoring elementary school students in science; helping with science fair project dealing with medical imaging October 20, 2005: Danny Joseph (Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Boston MA in association wiith MA General Hospital Department of Radiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School) toured the center and met with faculty about interest in research opportunity in brain function imaging and applying to the Duke Medical Physics graduate program. February 6, 2006: Tom Pepes, potential Duke Biomedical Engineering graduate student; met with faculty and graduate students to learn about applications of biomedical engineering to medical imaging. February 27-March 2, 2006: Representative of GE Applications to test GE sequences so graduate students and researchers of the center can a) learn what we do not know about the sequences and b) document what does not work for the GE people. March 2-3, 2006: Marlies Fries, PhD (Research Fellow, Centre for Magnetic Resonance, University of Queensland, Australia; toured the center with faculty members Laurence Hedlund and Bastiaan Driehuys, with special interest in small animal ventilator for deliverying hyperpolarized He for lung imaging; gain working knowledge for building a ventilator at their facility in Australia. March 15, 2006: Provide Kodak scientists an overview of the Center for In Vivo Microscopy- capabilities and focus; review areas of research/development in Kodak's molecular imaging program; Determine if/where there is common ground for collaboration; Shahram Hejazi, PhD WW General Manager, Molecular Imaging Systems, Kodak Health Group, New Haven, CT; and Bill Mclaughlin, Director of R&D and Applications March 24, 2006: Marla Vacek Broadfoot, Ph.D., Senior Public Relations Specialist, Duke University Medical Center News Office: tour of Center for background on our research in order to cover stories for the Duke University news service April 7, 2006 visiting with Dr. Bastiaan Drieyhus to view the Center's hyperpolarized gas facilities: Thomas Meersmann, PhD, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Colorado State University April 19-20, 2006: John Boone, MD (Professor, Radiology-Medical Physics), University of California-Davis) visit to the Center with interest in micro-CT and a secondary interest in the Medical Physics program at Duke. April 24-25, 2006: Dr. Lars Kaestner, Saarland University, Medical Faculty, Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, Hamburg, Germany; tour of lab, interest in molecular imaging, interest in doing a sabbatical with the Center.
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