19 May 2011, Jasper Hotel, 489 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Victoria
19 May 2011, Jasper Hotel, 489 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Victoria The inaugural Victorian Biomedical Imaging (VBI) Network meeting was held on 19 May 2011. It was attended by over 40 people representing all of the founding VBIC partners as well as the BakerIDI,...
Project in the Spotlight: Dr Sharna Jamadar
This month we feature research project work by Dr Sharna Jamadar of Clayton Node. Dr Jamadar is focused on cognitive reserve and its protective effect against age-related cognitive decline. Cognitive reserve refers to the mind’s resilience to...
Project in the Spotlight: Yasmin Blunk
This month we feature research from Yasmin Blunk of Parkville node. Yasmin's Ph.D. work focuses on Sodium MRI. Sodium is the second most abundant MR observable nucleus and has the potential to provide tissue information that is quite different from that of...
Project in the Spotlight: Myrte Strik
This month we feature research from Myrte Strik of Parkville node. Myrte's Ph.D. work focuses on the integration of gait biomechanics and 7 Tesla MRI to monitor and predict the progression of gait dysfunction in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Briefly tell us...
Project in the Spotlight: Robert Turner
This month we feature research from Robert Turner of Werribee node. Robert's research work is attempting to establish whether a relationship exists between body composition and fat distribution in dogs and the appearance of their pancreas on ultrasonography and...