What the facility does
High field and ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of humans and preclinical models of disease.
Areas of expertise
The Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping (CFMM) has the only collection of high and ultra-high field MRI scanners in Canada. The centre is staffed by a dedicated group of physicists, engineers, animal technicians, MRI technologists and research coordinators addressing basic and clinical neuroscience, and musculoskeletal health research.
Research services
- MRI scanning of patients, healthy controls, non-human primates, small to medium sized animals such as dogs, cats, rodents as well as birds
- MRI services for pharma sponsored clinical trials
Sectors of application
- Agriculture, animal science and food
- Education
- Healthcare and social services
- Life sciences, pharmaceuticals and medical equipment
- Manufacturing and processing
- Professional and technical services (including legal services, architecture, engineering)
Specialized labs and equipment
| Specialized lab | Equipment | Function |
|---|---|---|
| 3T Suite | Siemens 3T Prisma Fit MRI Scanner | Whole body 64 receive channel MRI system with full neurological, cardiac and musculoskeletal application suites. |
| 7T Suite | Siemens 7T Plus MRI Scanner | Neuro-specialized 8-transmit channel, 32-receive channel MRI system for neuroimaging. |
| 9.4T Suite | Bruker AVANCE NEOPreclinical MRI with PV360 Software | 31 cm bore 4-Tx, 8-Rx channel MRI system for imaging preclinical models of disease in marmosets and rats. |
| 15.2T Suite | Bruker BioSpec NEO Preclinical MRI with PV360 Software | 11 cm bore 2-Tx, 4-Rx channel MRI system for imaging preclinical models of disease in mice. |
| RF Lab | Agilent network analyzers | Full-service radio frequency engineering lab aimed primarily at MRI RF coil design and construction, but available for general EM work. |
| Signal generators | ||
| Oscilloscopes | ||
| Noise figure meter | ||
| Impedance meter | ||
| Dielectric measurement device | ||
| SOLIDWORKS 2022 software package | ||
| CST microwave studio software package | ||
| Exxact GPU-based supercomputer |
Private and public sector research partners
- Boston Scientific CRM
- Profound Medical Inc. (PMI)
- Trudell Medical
- Siemens
- Bruker
- Agilent
- Merck-Frosst
- Merck-Sereno
- XLR Imaging
- Ceresensa
- Neuronitek
- Northern Digital Inc. (NDI)
- Neoptix
- ExtraOrtho
- MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates (MDA)
- McGill University
- The University of British Columbia
- University of Alberta
- University of Calgary
- Queen’s University
- The University of Toronto
- Rotman Research Institute
- The Hospital for Sick Children
- McMaster University
- Oxford University (England)
- RIKEN (Japan)
- MIT (USA)
- The University of Florida (USA)
- The Trials Management Group (TMG)
Additional information
| Title | URL |
|---|---|
| News and Media | https://cfmm.uwo.ca/news_media/index.html |
| Western to revolutionize drug development for brain diseases with $24M federal funding boost | https://cfmm.uwo.ca/news_media/2023/Hippocampal1.html |
| Western researchers develop new open-source app for precise brain mapping | https://cfmm.uwo.ca/news_media/2023/Hippocampal.html |