We are excited to announce our upcoming seminar that will highlight recent developments made in AI tools specific for small animal imaging by industry leader Revvity.   Artificial Intelligence is a powerful tool that holds promise to significantly enhance workflow, accuracy, and discovery in small animal imaging.  The details for the seminar are below. Date/Time: November 25th, … Read more

Xinrui Ma, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC, was awarded the Best Poster Presentation at the 2024 Radiology Department Research Symposium. This marks her third consecutive year of recognition—previously earning Best Oral Presentation awards in both 2022 and 2023. Her research has spanned a variety of fields, including … Read more

Congratulations to Eric Livingston and Jon Frank, who were co-first authors on the best poster award for the Cardiovascular and Pulmonary section at the 2024 WMIC conference in Montreal, CA.  The poster titled, “Evaluation of the new CT contrast agent VivoVist for vascular and liver imaging in mouse models” examined three different commercially available contrast … Read more

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC-NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, have developed a new method that combines palmitoleic acid, gentamicin, and non-invasive ultrasound to help improve drug delivery in chronic wounds that have been infected with S. aureus. Using their new strategy, researchers including BRIC faculty member Dr. Paul Dayton, and Dr. Sarah … Read more

Congratulations to Dr. Hong Yuan, Director of the BRIC Small Animal Imaging facility, on her awarded S10 Grant for her project entitled, “Preclinical Vevo-F2 ultrasound imaging system for Small Animal Imaging core facility.” This $490K grant funds the installation of a preclinical ultrasound imaging system in BRIC’s Small Animal Imaging core facility. The new system … Read more

Earlier this year, a study proposed by Dr. Todd Cohen (PI) and Dr. Rick Meeker (Co-PI) was selected by the SOM for funding as ECBR grant award. The study is titled “Inflammation, Aging and Alzheimer Disease Vulnerability”. (Click Title to read more)

The 3rd Triangle Imaging Symposium will be hosted by the BRIC on April 18, 2018. Please mark your calendar. (Click Title to read more)

The Small Animal Imaging facility will be getting a new PET/CT System in October. The system is funded by a recently awarded NIH high-end instrumentation (HEI) S10 grant (S10-OD023611-01, PI: Zibo Li, PhD). The new system will replace the old GE eXplore Vista PET/CT system, and is expected to have significantly improved performance for PET/CT imaging. (Click Title to read more)

Carrie Wilczewski, of Dr. Frank Conlon’s lab, is conducting studies that focus on visualizing and quantifying alterations in heart development in embryonic models of congenital heart disease. (Click Title to read more)

Due to the adjustments on the UNC facilities and administrative (F&A) cost (increased from 52% to 55.5%), our external imaging rates will be increased accordingly. This will affect external users for future studies. Our imaging rates for internal users have not changed. These rates go into effect immediately.