Congratulations to the recipients of the University of Melbourne 7T MRI Pilot Projects for 2014.

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Chief Investigator: Peter Brotchie

Institution: UoM (Honorary, Radiology & Honorary, Clinical School – St Vincent’s Hospital)         

Co-Investigators: Hamed Akhlaghi (UoM), Graeme Jackson (Florey)

Project: Cortical interactions between two parietal lobe regions that both encode body orientation within the environment

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Chief Investigator: Dr Bryan Paton

Institution: Monash Biomedical Imaging   

Co-Investigators: Prof. Gary Egan School & MBI; A/Prof Naotsugu Tsuchiya School; Dr Parnesh Raniga MBI; A/Prof Jakob Hohwy Faculty of Arts, SOPHIS; A/Prof Jeroen van Boxtel School & MBI; Prof. Roger Ordidge UoM MBCIU; Dr Amanda Ng UoM MBCIU

Project: The dynamics of deep and superficial cortical layers of visual cortex as measured by high resolution and ultra‐high field MRI

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Chief Investigator: Dr Parnesh Raniga      

Institution: Monash Biomedical Imaging           

Co-Investigators: Phil Ward (MBI), Gary Egan (MBI), Amanda Ng (MBCIU)    

Project: QSM based venography

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Chief Investigator: Dr Bruce Campbell      

Institution: Dept Neurology, UoM  

Co-Investigators: Dr Nawaf Yassi, Dr Teddy Wu, Prof Patricia Desmond, Prof Stephen Davis (all UoM)      

Project: Advancing pathophysiologic understanding of lacunar stroke using MR imaging at 7T

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Chief Investigator: Graeme Jackson           

Institution: Florey Austin    

Co-Investigator: Mira Semmelroch

Project: Subtle bottom of sulcus dysplasias (BOSD)

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Chief Investigator: Dr Paul Klauser           

Institution: Monash Biomedical Imaging & UoM  

Co-Investigators: Dr Benny Liberg  Dept of Psychiatry at UoM; Dr Valentina Lorenzetti  MBI & Dept of Psychiatry at UoM; Dr Suo Chao MBI; Dr Parnesh Raniga MBI       

Project: Validation of probabilistic maps of midbrain dopaminergic system obtained from 3T parallel transmit imaging

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Chief Investigator: Prof Trevor Kilpatrick

Institution: Dept Anatomy & Neuroscience, University of Melbourne   

Co-Investigators: Scott Kolbe UoM, Tomas Kalincik UoM, Roger Ordidge UoM,  Alan Connelly Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health

Project: Comparative assessment of quantitative measures of disease progression in MS