The Imaging Core (Core A) of the Emory Molecular and Translational Imaging Research Center willprovide centralized access, quality control, expertise and consultation services related to state-of-theartimaging with positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance (MR) techniques, andoptical imaging methods. In this 'regard, the Core is highly integrative, being utilized by all threeResearch Projects, as a life laboratory for the applied portion of the Career Development Program,and by all year 1 Pilot Projects. Core A will also have vital collaborative interactions with each of theother 3 core resources.Substantial physical and instrumentation resources available to EMTIC investigators include highresolution human PET (Project #1; Pilot #4), microPET (Project #2, Pilot #5), high-field animal andhuman MR systems (Project #3, Pilots #3, #5), and optical imaging systems (Pilots #1, #2). Core Awill provide the infrastructure to ensure coordinated access, support and acceleration ofmethodological developments needed to optimize and translate cellular and molecular imagingtechniques to clinical settings.The mission and objectives of Core A includes supporting both the day-to-day needs of EMTICinvestigators as well as fostering the development of new methods and imaging techniques includingrefinement of magnetic nanoparticle tracer technology and implementation and protocol design for aprototype combined MR/PET device, for which Emory will be the first North American installation(Pilot #5).
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