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Animal imaging

Over the last 4 decades biomedical imaging has revolutionised clinical medicine and biomedical research. Innovations continue at increasing pace, new imaging technologies are being introduced and methods are developing rapidly to extract useful information from images, which can used to guide and monitor therapies and generate large-scale sets of data in a more systems based approach to both biology and medicine. UCL has recently established the Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging (CABI), which is a new multidisciplinary research centre for experimental imaging. The Centre is built around a number of groups at UCL and brings together in-vivo imaging technologies across UCL with specific applications in the biomedical sciences. The Centre provides state-of-the-art high-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a new photoacoustic imaging facility, in vivo 2-photon laser-scanning microscopy, ultrasound, bioluminescence and fluorescence imaging, as well as SPECT/CT and PET/CT. The aims are to establish an integrated strategy for the development and application of novel in vivo imaging technologies to further understand the mechanisms of disease and develop therapeutic strategies. Furthermore to deliver a multimodal imaging programme to investigate the molecular, functional and structural consequences of the disease process on a range of different scales. The development of imaging technology is an essential part of the translational pipeline for drug development and personalised medicine, and is integral to research and adoption of imaging in the pharmaceutical industry. These experimental imaging strategies will help to remove major “bottlenecks” in the translation of new discoveries to the clinic and generate the knowledge and understanding to transform human health and well-being.

Training

UCL Doctoral Training Programme in Medical and Biomedical Imaging

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