Research Activities
The medical research is carried out under the Directorship of Professor Lindsay W. Turnbull, and is devoted to the application of magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy techniques to the study of cancer.
Current research projects include investigations of cancer of the breast, prostate and cervix. Previous studies have involved investigations of cancer of the brain.
MRI techniques employed include dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI), diffusion-weighted MRI, functional MRI (fMRI, brain activation mapping), image textural analysis, proton spectoscopy and phosphorus spectoscopy.
Read more about this topic: Centre For Magnetic Resonance Investigations
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