An exhibition of eight striking scientific images
The exhibition highlights the significant contributions made to Edinburgh Imaging by Italian scientists. We hope that this series of stunning images will take your breath away and show medical imaging research in a new light.
The exhibition will showcase how radiologists, medical physicians, engineers, image analysts, chemists, biologists and IT specialists at Edinburgh Imaging, continuously work together, to share knowledge and skills in order to produce world-leading imaging research which allows consultants to improve patient diagnosis, treatment and care.
May 2016 is an exciting time for imaging research in Edinburgh, as it marks the start of one year of a ‘Celebration of Imaging’. Over the next 18 months the team will be expanding their research imaging facilities, with new devices that will include PET-CT scanners, a 3T neuro-optimised MRI scanner and a MR-PET scanner. The latter, is the first of its kind in Scotland, and will give scientists the clearest picture yet of what goes wrong in the brain when dementia occurs, while offering new opportunities for heart and cancer imaging research.
Detailed images of the brain, retina and lungs will be shown in the exhibition, and will showcase how cutting edge imaging techniques are contributing to the excellent research carried out by Edinburgh Imaging.
One of the images, is a 3D reconstruction of a patient’s lungs created from CT scans. Doctors are using this technology to examine people who may have lung or heart disease. This approach is now employed to prepare patients for surgery and reduces invasive methods for diagnosis and treatment.
We hope you will be pleasantly surprised by the image that displays a rainbow of bright colours, which depicts the complex connections between cells inside a human brain.
Also on display is a detailed snapshot of the retina at the back of the eye. The Edinburgh and Dundee team, who are working on this project, are developing sophisticated techniques to measure changes in the blood vessels of the retina.
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