GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has won a contract with a Wisconsin medical college to provide its ultrahigh-field 7-tesla MRI scanner for the facility's brain disorder research.
Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee will install one of GE's investigational ultrahigh-field 7-tesla MRI scanners to study patients with a variety of disorders, including brain tumors, stroke, epilepsy, drug abuse, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, head injury, visual disorders, and schizophrenia. Researchers will also develop new brain imaging techniques for detecting disease before patients are symptomatic.
The program is funded in part by a one-time capital investment from the state of Wisconsin, and it will be conducted at the Center for Imaging Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin, GE said.
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