We envision that the LUCAS Center for Imaging will remain the creative environment for unprecedented interdisciplinary research illuminating our understanding of human physiology and lighting the way for revolutionary advances in the diagnosis and treatment of human diseases. Our mission is to advance imaging in healthcare at Stanford through technology creation and development, translational research and education.
The LUCAS Center for Imaging opened in July 1992 as one of the few centers in the world with major centralized resources devoted to research in magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and imaging (MRI). The LUCAS Center for Imaging provides office and laboratory facilities for full-time faculty members and their team of scientific staff, postdoctoral fellows and students. We actively support collaborative and original research through building upon a long-standing and very close working relationship between the faculty and students of RSL, the Clinical Radiology Department, and members of the Electrical Engineering Department often having joint seminars, journal clubs and study groups. In addition, faculty members from all groups are joint advisors to many students and have many federally funded and industry-funded collaborative research programs in place.
The LUCAS Center for Imaging has 37,000 square feet of space, dedicated to imaging research, and is located on the Stanford campus, one block from the School of Medicine and Stanford University Hospital. There are 3.0T whole-body MR systems, a 7.0T MR system, and a whole-body PET/MR system from GE and Siemens. In addition, the LUCAS Center for Imaging has data analysis laboratories, an electronics laboratory/machine shop, office space, and is well suited for handling the scanning of patients and normal volunteers comfortably and safely.
Computers in the LUCAS Center for Imaging are networked with all scanners, including all clinical scanners, and the PACS system. Adequate electronics, mechanical laboratory facilities, machine shops and support personnel are situated at the LUCAS Center for Imaging and elsewhere at Stanford.
The equipment listed is available at no cost to the sponsor beyond those included in our budget. Usage costs for research scanning at the LUCAS Center for Imaging are included in our budget justification, and research usage of clinical systems is at similar rates. All of these costs cover maintenance of the research MRI equipment.
