SFU’s ImageTech Lab at Surrey Memorial Hospital promises rapid innovations in brain health treatments
A new, world-class medical imaging research facility, SFU ImageTech Lab, was unveiled this week in partnership with Fraser Health and Simon Fraser University. Researchers from the Schools of Computing Science, Mechatronic Systems Engineering, and Engineering Science are among those who benefit from access to the state-of-the-art facility, built inside Surrey Memorial Hospital as a cornerstone in Surrey’s Health Technology District.
The lab will include a unique combination of high-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) together with high-density magnetoencephalography (MEG) used together to create a high field 3T whole-body MRI and high-density 275-channel MEG to “watch the brain in action.” This will give researchers new opportunities to study brain disorders and diseases such as brain injury, brain tumours, epilepsy, mental illness, and more.