Research Infrastructure
3 T MR Scanner
- dedicated 3 T research scanner (Discovery 750, General Electric Healthcare*)
- comes with a full-suite of appropriate brain and carotid imaging coils, and cerebrovascular imaging software
- access to and expertise in using the General Electric programming language under our research agreement
- staffed by licensed technologists allowing the full range of human research (normal subjects to patients)
*Note: The current 3 T research scanner is scheduled to be replaced in January 2024.
Pre-Clinical Surgical/X-Ray Imaging Suite
- x-ray compatible surgical table
- completely equipped with anesthesia and motioning equipment
- procedures in place to transfer subjects to adjacent MR scanner
Computational and Storage Infrastructure
- centralized data storage (>200 Tbytes) of redundant server-class storage and access to computational resources at Seaman Family Centre and CIPAC
- local access to high-performance GPU (donated by Nvidia) and the cloud (donated by Amazon Web Services)
- access to high-performance computing resources at the University of Calgary (Advanced Research Computing), Westgrid and Compute Canada
- research activities supported by centralized IT support and dedicated software development personnel