Imaging
How are imaging technologies aiding research at the Brain Research Centre?
How is the Brain Research Centre partnered with the UBC/TRIUMF PET Program?
Would you like to learn more about imaging?
Whose research interests include imaging?
Would you like to support imaging research?
How are imaging technologies aiding research at the Brain Research Centre?
For decades, scientists have dreamed of seeing and understanding the patterns of activity within our brains as we perform selected tasks, sleep, experience diseases, and go about our daily lives. Thanks to recent technological advances, these dreams can now become realities. The brain imaging facilities at the Brain Research Centre are devoted to advancing efforts to visualize chemistry, activity, and the presence of specific molecules within the working brain. Our imaging platform consists of a series of interrelated modules that enable us to visualize and image brain activity, brain structure, and brain function with different degrees of invasiveness, spatial resolution, temporal resolution, and biochemical specificity. The principal technologies include confocal and 2-photon microscopy, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and positron emission tomography (PET).
In addition, the Centre's imaging platform is devoted to processing and analyzing brain imaging data, regardless of the modality in which it is gathered. Centre scientists are building on a partnership with computer scientists and engineers to develop tools to display, process, and manipulate brain imaging data with a view to providing the most robust and powerful techniques available to understand the workings of the living brain.
How is the Brain Research Centre partnered with the UBC/TRIUMF PET Program?
The positron emission tomography (PET) Program in Vancouver was established in 1980 as a collaboration between several departments within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Nuclear and Particle Physics. The program is dedicated to basic research in neurology and psychiatry. The major hypotheses that underpin our research efforts concern the etiopathogenesis of diseases of the dopamine and serotonin systems.
Research techniques employed by the PET Group include positron emission tomography, autoradiography, immunohistochemistry, molecular biology, experimental surgery, and epidemiology. All of these are integrated in a setting where a major effort is invested in clinical expertise, so that carefully characterized patients from the Movement Disorders, Schizophrenia, and Mood Disorders Clinics have the opportunity to participate in research.
Would you like to learn more about imaging?
For further information on the PET Program, please contact Dr. Thomas J. Ruth, Director, UBC/TRIUMF PET Program, 2211 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1W6. Tel.: 604-822-7753 Fax: 604-222-1074 Email: truth@triumf.ca
Whose research interests include imaging?
Rafeef Abugharbieh, PhD Department of Electical & Computer Engineering
Douglas Allan, PhD Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
M. Stella Atkins, MPhil, PhD School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
Kenneth G. Baimbridge, PhD Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
Shernaz Bamji, PhD Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
Faisal Beg, PhD Department of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University
C. Laird Birmingham, MD Department of Psychiatry
Jean-Sebastien Blouin, PhD School of Human Kinetics
Kellogg S. Booth, MA, PhD Department of Computer Science
W. Thomas Boyce, MD Human Early Learning Partnership
Johann Brink, PhD Department of Psychiatry
Brian Cairns, PhD Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Robert Chow, PhD Department of Biology, University of Victoria
Kalina Christoff, PhD Department of Psychology
John Church, MB, ChB, PhD Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
Campbell Clark, PhD Department of Psychiatry
Douglas Cochrane, MD Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery
Mary Connolly, PhD Department of Pediatrics
Peter Cripton, PhD Department of Mechanical Engineering
Kenneth Curry, PhD Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Max S. Cynader, PhD Department of Ophthalmology; Director, Brain Research Centre
Kerry Delaney, MSc, PhD Department of Biology, University of Victoria
Adele Diamond, PhD Department of Psychiatry
Vincent Di Lollo, PhD Department of Psychology
Doris J. Doudet, PhD Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
Eric Eich, PhD Department of Psychology
James T. Enns, MA, PhD Department of Psychology
Matthew Farrer, PhD Department of Medical Genetics
Howard Feldman, MD, CM Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
Brian Fisher, PhD Department of Computer Science
Bruce B. Forster, MSc, MD Department of Radiology
Deborah Giaschi, MA, PhD Department of Ophthalmology / Department of Psychology
Dan Goldowitz, PhD Department of Medical Genetics
Michael D. Gordon, PhD Department of Zoology
Douglas A. Graeb, MD Department of Radiology / Department of Medicine
Cheryl Gregory-Evans, PhD TD Department of Ophthalmology
Kevin Gregory-Evans, MD, PhD Department of Ophthalmology
Kurt Haas, PhD Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
Ismail Hafez, PhD Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Ghassan Hamarneh, PhD Department of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
Todd Handy, PhD Department of Psychology
Farsheed Hedayati Vala, MD Faculty of Medicine
Manraj Heran, MD Department of Radiology
Anthony Herdman, PhD School of Audiology & Speech Sciences
Alan Hill, PhD, MD Department of Paediatrics
Antony Hodgson, PhD Department of Mechanical Engineering
Martin J. Hollenberg, MD, MSc, PhD Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
William G. Honer, MD, MSc Department of Psychiatry
Judy Illes, PhD Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
Claudia Jacova, PhD Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
Lorne Kastrukoff, MD Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
David Katz, PhD Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
Alan Kingstone, PhD Department of Psychology
Piotr Kozlowski, MD Department of Surgery
Charles Krieger, MD, MSc, PhD School of Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University
Jocelyne S. Lapointe, MD Department of Radiology
David Li, MD Department of Radiology
Mario Liotti, PhD Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University
James Little, PhD Department of Computer Science
Teresa Liu-Ambrose, PhD School of Rehabilitation Sciences and Centre for Hip Health & Mobility
David Lowe, PhD Department of Computer Science
Alex MacKay, MSc, PhD Department of Radiology / Department of Physics
John McDonald, PhD Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University
James McLarnon, MSc, PhD Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Bruce M. McManus, MD, PhD Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Frederick Mikelberg, MD Department of Ophthalmology
Steven Miller, MD Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology
Edwin D. Moore, MSc, PhD Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
Hakima Moukhles, PhD Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
Timothy H. Murphy, PhD Division of Neurological Sciences, Department of Psychiatry
Elton T.C. Ngan, MD, CM Department of Psychiatry
Robert A. Nugent, MD Department of Radiology
John R. O'Kusky, MSc, PhD Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Joel Oger, MD Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
Ipek Oruc, PhD Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Alexander Rauscher, PhD Department of Radiology
Gary Redekop, MD, MSc Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery
Urs Ribary, PhD Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University
Gordon Rintoul, PhD Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Jack Rootman, MD Department of Ophthalmology
Fabio Rossi, PhD Biomedical Research Centre
Thomas J. Ruth, MA, PhD Director, PET Program
Stephan Schwarz, MD, PhD Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Michael Silverman, PhD Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Peter J. Soja, MSc, PhD Division of Pharmacology & Toxicology
Weihong Song, MD, PhD Department of Psychiatry
Vesna Sossi, PhD TRIUMF / Department of Medicine
Paul Steinbok, MB BS Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery
A. Jon Stoessl, MD Department of Medicine
Leigh Anne Swayne, PhD Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria
Nicholas Swindale, PhD Department of Ophthalmology
William Tippett, PhD Department of Psychology, University of Northern British Columbia
Tony Traboulsee, MD Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
Filip Van Petegem, PhD Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Naznin Virji-Babul, PhD Department of Physical Therapy
Jane Wang, PhD Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Yue Wang, PhD Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University
Lawrence Ward, PhD Department of Psychology
Rosemary Wilkinson, MSc, PhD Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
Robert J. Woodham, PhD Department of Computer Science
Todd Woodward, PhD Department of Psychiatry
Qing-San Xiang, MS, PhD Department of Radiology / Department of Physics
Lakshmi N. Yatham, MB BS, DPM Department of Psychiatry
Pierre Zakarauskas, PhD Department of Ophthalmology
Would you like to support imaging research?
The Brain Research Centre is committed to advancing our knowledge of the brain and to exploring new discoveries and technologies which have the potential to reduce the suffering and cost associated with disease and injuries of the brain. We invite you to help us deliver on this commitment.
