Brain Imaging Research Services
Scientific Director: Gregory Moore, PhD
9B UHC
Phone: (313) 577.9090
Medical Director: Manuel E. Tancer, MD
9B UHC
Phone: (313) 577.0215
The BIP is highly multidisciplinary with specialties ranging from physicians and neuroscientists to physicists and chemists. The program strongly promotes research initiatives at the basic science-clinical interface.
Direct imaging of brain pharmacokinetics, therapeutic intervention, response to stimuli, and cognition is now possible with modern Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) technology. One can noninvasively obtain quantitative images of cerebral blood flow, biochemistry, oxygenation, and metabolism with these and other closely related techniques.
The BIP is focused primarily around MRI and PET technologies, although other tools such as EEG, SPECT and CT are readily available to the program. The program's MRI facilities include scanners for quantitative volumetric MRI, functional MRI, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. PET facilities include a high resolution 3D PET scanner and an on site cyclotron for the production of radioisotopes.