University of British Columbia

Contact Info:

Erin MacMillan

2215 Wesbrook Mall

c/o Quantitative Imaging Research Collective

Vancouver, BC V6S 0H6

https://mriresearch.med.ubc.ca/

Grants and Identifiers:

RRID: RRID:SCR_025374

Instrumentation:

Services Provided:

Clinical Imaging - Small Animal (X-ray, Ultrasound, microCAT, MRI)

EEG

Focused Ultrasound

Functional Brain Imaging

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

Image Aquisition

Image Processing And Analysis

In-vivo Imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Phosphorus MR Spectroscopy

Sodium MRI

Spectroscopy

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Relevant Publications:

1.) Balaji S, Dvorak AV, Wiley N, MacMillan EL, Traboulsee A, Vavasour IM, Gilbert G, Moore GRW, Li DKB, Laule C, MacKay AL, Kolind S (2025 Nov). Myelin water and tensor-valued diffusion imaging: (How) are they related? Magnetic resonance in medicine, 94(5), 2038-2056. . PMID: 40598716.

2.) Ensworth AG, Barlow LR, Kozlowski P, MacMillan EL, Laule C (2025 May 28). The Goldilocks Zone for 3‐T MRS Studies Using Semi‐LASER: Determining the Optimal Balance Between Repetition Time and Scan Time Nmr in Biomedicine, 38(7), e70064. . PMCID: 12117354.

3.) Ahdi A, Ensworth A, Schulz BR, MacMillan E, Mirian MS, Vahabie AH, Laule C, Nygaard HB, Setaredan SK, McKeown MJ (2025 Mar). Assessment of (1)H-MRS spectra via multiset canonical correlation analysis and empirical mode decomposition. Computers in biology and medicine, 187(), 109806. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2025.109806. PMID: 39923591.

Description:

UBC MRI Research hosts a wide range of human and preclinical in vivo imaging as well as develops novel MRI techniques. Our facilities consist of a Philips 3.0 Tesla MRI scanner for studies on humans, a Bruker small bore 9.4 Tesla MRI scanner, and a computing facility for image archival and analysis. The two scanners are entirely dedicated to research, and MR scanning is carried out on a cost recovery basis. The scanners were selected to cater to a very broad range of in vivo applications and the Imaging Centre staff is trained to support any research projects that the scanners can accommodate.