The Facility’s equipment and resources are supported by experienced research radiographers to help you get the best quality data.
What you'll receive from our facility
- LiMRiC maintains the highest ethical, clinical governance and safety standards. We have established processes for handling ‘incidental findings’ in healthy subjects
- Our main instrument is a Siemens Prisma 3T scanner. Techniques available include a wide range of structural MRI, fMRI, and 1H and 31P MRS
- Our facility staff are available to share their expertise in a range of MRI techniques and their experience in supporting MRI research studies in healthy subjects and patients, and in anatomical samples
- We are also able to offer support in: study design; method selection and optimisation, data management planning, costings, safety aspects; data acquisition
- Training is available 1-to-1 hands-on at our facility.
Who can use our facilities
- University of Liverpool academic staff and research students
- Researchers from other universities
- Industrial research partners.
What can magnetic resonance imaging methods do
LiMRIC supports a wide range of research, currently including these main areas:
- Measurements of liver fat and body adipose tissue
- Assessments of organ damage (e.g. heart, spleen, kidney, liver, pancreas)
- Neuroimaging studies of pain and appetite, cognition, brain structure, function and connectivity in heath and disease
- Quantitative cardiac imaging
- Anatomical and functional musculoskeletal imaging.
This is not an exhaustive list. Please get in touch to discuss the possibilities.
