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.) Westlin C, Rioux M, Lee J, Panenka W, Palombo DJ, Todd RM, Silverberg ND, Perez DL (2025 Dec 19). Structural brain alterations and predictors of clinical improvement in functional cognitive disorder after concussion. NeuroImage. Clinical, 49(), 103936. . PMCID: 12811585.

2.) 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.

3.) 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.

4.) 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.

5.) Scheuren PS, Ortiz O, Linde LD, Choles CM, MacMillan EL, Kramer JLK (2025 Jul-Dec). Glutamate levels in the cingulate cortex are associated with objective markers of pain sensitivity by way of pre-stimulus alpha band oscillations. Neurobiology of pain (Cambridge, Mass.), 18(), 100204. . PMCID: 12702119.

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.