# Institutional Center Cores for Advanced Neuroimaging

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · 2020 · $433,459

## Abstract

The general aim of this proposal is to continue the successful NINDS Institutional Center Cores (P30
NS076408) at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR), University of Minnesota
(UMN). These Cores offer state-of-the-art instrumentation, advanced technology, and unique
expertise for biomedical imaging in CMRR so as to provide cutting edge resources and facilities to
investigators who have existing NINDS-funded research projects serving the NINDS mission through
“basic, translational, and clinical research on the normal and diseased nervous system”. In the last
two and a half decades, magnetic resonance (MR) techniques have evolved to become
indispensable in studies of the brain in health and disease by providing otherwise unavailable
measurement capabilities in humans and animal models. The optimal use of these techniques
requires advanced instrumentation, unique expertise, and complex auxiliary capabilities such as
animal surgery, large-scale data and image processing, and complementary measurements
employing classical techniques (e.g., electrophysiology and histology). Access to these facilities and
methodologies, especially at the cutting-edge, is virtually impossible in individual labs. The proposed
NINDS Center Cores will provide and encourage access to these advanced technologies and
associated unique expertise to amplify NINDS funded neuroscience research. These aims will be
accomplished through three scientific Cores:
 1. MR Image Acquisition and Engineering Core (to provide application specific pulse sequences,
 and hardware, such as RF coils) (PI: Pierre-Francois van de Moortele; co-PI Gulin Oz)
 2. MR Data Analysis and Visualization Core (to provide applications specific image and
 spectroscopic analysis tools and support) (PI: Christophe Lenglet; co-PI Noam Harel)
 3. Multimodality Core (to support complementary non-imaging measurement capabilities) (PI:
 Geoff Ghose)
The overall aim of this grant is to provide this access within the multidisciplinary, and interactive
research environment of CMRR, so as to enrich the effectiveness of and promote new research
directions in a large number of ongoing NINDS funded research projects.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10005492
- **Project number:** 5P30NS076408-09
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
- **Principal Investigator:** KAMIL UGURBIL
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $433,459
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2012-09-30 → 2022-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10005492

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10005492, Institutional Center Cores for Advanced Neuroimaging (5P30NS076408-09). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10005492. Licensed CC0.

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