Here at UVA Medical Imaging Research, an unwavering commitment to advancing medical knowledge and improving patient care is at the heart of everything we do. To that end, we offer a full range of the latest MRI and related services to the UVA research community as well as researchers outside the university system.

The Imaging Core offers state of the art MRI equipment that includes two Siemens 3 Telsa scanners, the Prisma and CIMA.

Current in-house research initiatives include: hyperpolarized helium imaging, cerebral, cardiac and renal perfusion imaging, diffusion imaging, high resolution 3D imaging, functional (fMRI), CSF flow quantification, body-fat composition and the efficacy of various contrast agents. Our program was the first in the world to acquire images of the human lungs with hyperpolarized Xenon.