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Infrastructure Projects

The Hilal/Hatch Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility

The Clinical Trials Fund provided $500,000, payable over a three-year period, to assist in the completion of the Hilal/Hatch MRI and spectroscopy research system at the Neurological Institute. When fully operational this will be the world's most powerful MRI system.

Sadek Hilal, M.D., Ph.D.
The grant will be used to purchase additional components required to assemble the system. The design and development of the twenty-six-ton ultra high field (4.0 Tesla or above) super conducting magnet and its supporting systems began at CPMC more than five years ago, under the direction of Dr. Sadek Hilal, whose goal was to implement a system capable of defining the biochemical constituents of human tissue better than any existing MR system.

MR spectroscopy has widespread clinical research potential at CPMC and several specific projects have already been identified for investigation in such areas as: cardiac metabolism; brain biochemical changes associated with stroke, epilepsy, brain tumors, various degenerative neurological disorders and psychiatric disorders; and responses induced by chemotherapy of brain tumors and embolization therapy of intracranial arteriovenous malformations. The new system's unparalleled investigative potential will be utilized across several CPMC departments and centers.

Left to right: Richard Sano; Ed Wu, Ph.D.; Bill Thomas; Dorothy Adams, Ph.D.; Philip O. Alderson, M.D.; Stephen Chan, M.D.; Dikoma Shungu, Ph.D.; Kenneth Hess

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