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Investment in imaging to accelerate UNC researchers’ understanding of disease


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Magnetic Resonance Brain Images E-mail
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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A direct comparison of magnetic resonance (MR) brain images obtained from two different people. The image on the left is from a conventional scanner; the picture on the right is from the same type of advanced scanner being funded by the NIH High-End Instrumentation grant recently awarded to UNC.

Images provided courtesy of Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University.

News Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/
unc-receives-2-million-nih-grant-for-state-of-the-art-magnetic-resonance-scanner.html