Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre

{{Short description|Research centre of the University of Cambridge}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{more citations needed|date=August 2009}}

The '''Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre''' ('''WBIC''') is a UK Biomedical Imaging Centre, located at [[Addenbrooke's Hospital]], [[Cambridge]], [[England]], on the [[Cambridge Bio-Medical Campus]] at the southwestern end of [[Hills Road, Cambridge|Hills Road]]. It is a division of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences of the [[University of Cambridge]].

The Centre opened in 1996 with a GE [[Positron emission tomography|PET scanner]], followed soon after by a Bruker 3T [[Magnetic resonance imaging|MRI]] system. After a major programme of infrastructure investment and redevelopment, funded by the [[Medical Research Council (United Kingdom)|Medical Research Council]] and the University of Cambridge. The facilities now comprise a Siemens 7T Terra MRI scanner, a Siemens 3T PrismaFit scanner, a Siemens 3T SkyraFit scanner, a GE 3T [[PET-MRI|PET/MR]] Signa scanner and a hyper-polariser system.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wbic.cam.ac.uk/about-the-wbic|title=About — Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre|website=www.wbic.cam.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-12-06}}</ref>

Research conducted within the Centre falls broadly into the categorisations of [[positron emission tomography]], [[Magnetic resonance imaging|magnetic resonance]] and [[radiochemistry]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wbic.cam.ac.uk/research-1|title=Overview — Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre|website=www.wbic.cam.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-12-06}}</ref> It also provides research platforms for neuroscience themes, including dementia, stroke and neurosurgery as well as cognitive neuroscience.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wbic.cam.ac.uk/about-the-wbic|title=About — Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre|website=www.wbic.cam.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-12-06}}</ref> <!-- == History == {{sect-stub}}

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== People == * [[Edward Bullmore|Prof Ed Bullmore]] – Chairman and Clinical Director * [[Franklin Aigbirhio|Prof Franklin I. Aigbirhio]] – Professor of Molecular Imaging Chemistry * Dr T. Adrian Carpenter – Director of Magnetic Resonance * Dr Tim D. Fryer – Director of PET Physics * Dr Guy B. Williams – Director of Information Processing

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== External links == * [http://www.wbic.cam.ac.uk/ Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre]

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