Neuroimaging
Clinical diagnostic imaging is conducted within our clinical partner, University of Massachusetts Medical Health Center (UMMHC),operating facilities throughout the greater Worcester area.
Significant expansion in NeuroImaging Research Core Facilities on the UMass Chan Medical School campus are expected in the near future. Current research neuroimaging capabilities range the entire gamut from the whole-animal/ human level to cellular and molecular levels.
- The Advanced MRI Center (AMRIC) core facility has a 3.0T instrument used for human subjects research.
- The New England Center for Stroke Research has an angio-surgical "interventional radiology" suite.
- The Optical Imaging Core Facility has IVIS-100 and IVIS Spectrum CT instruments for small animal research.
- The Radio Labeling Small Animal Translational imaging Core (RLASTIC) has a NanoSPECT/CT, MicroPET, and Li-Cor Pearl Fluorescence imager for use with small animals.
At a more cellular level, the Sanderson Center for Optical Experimentation (SCOPE) has microscopy and imaging equipment for quantitative imaging, live-cell imaging, confocal,and time-lapse microscopy, and provides training and assistance with microscopy and image analysis.
The Core Electron Microscopy facility has four transmission electron microscopes and one scanning electron microscope, provides training and consultation.
The state-of-the-art microscopes of the Cryo-EM core facility allow subcellular imaging and provides a regional resource for structural biology. See also Opening.
Additional imaging and analysis facilities exist throughout the campus.