The WA NIF node Human Imaging Facility provides in vivo human imaging capabilities, welcoming two state-of-the-art research-dedicated scanners: a digital PET-CT and a 3T MRI system.

These new scanners will be the only human imaging systems in WA fully dedicated to research, and intended to facilitate high-end in vivo human imaging for the state. They will be co-located with the existing NIF bioimaging instruments, offering unique advantages to human participants and researchers, streamlining workflows, and opening the path towards multimodal and co-registered imaging.

The human imaging facility is based in the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, north building, on the QEII Medical Campus (6 Verdun Street, Nedlands, WA 6009).

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    Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

    Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) uses applied magnetic fields to non-invasively (and non-destructively) image samples with non-ionising radiation (unlike X-ray based techniques). MRI can rapidly provide excellent in vivo soft-tissue image contrast for qualitative analyses, 3D images for quantitative volumetric measurements, and access to quantitative parameter maps (for example, MR relaxation, diffusion, flow) related to underlying tissue structure, function, or metabolism. Rapid imaging techniques can also be used to study dynamic processes, such as the cardiac cycle.

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    Computed Tomography (CT)

    Computed Tomography (CT) is an x-ray based technique to provide 3D or 4D images of the human anatomy. Image contrast is based the varying densities of tissue, thus providing excellent, sub-millimetre resolution, images of bones, heart, lungs, among many other organs.

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    Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

    Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a powerful translational research tool that has a direct impact on patient care, in particular in precision medicine and in the growing field of theranostics, and emerging field of medicine combining specific targeted therapy based on specific targeted diagnostic tests.

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