Congratulations to the following prizewinners at the SINAPSE 5th Annual Scientific Meeting. Elisa Calamai, University of Aberdeen for the best junior presentation: donated by Philips Healthcare. Dr Jennifer Macfarlane, NHS …more
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Dr Jennifer Macfarlane has prepared a report on work undertaken to assess Geometric Distortion as part of Quality Assurance in Multicentre Imaging Research. Click here to download the full report.
Applications for these Prize Studentships are now open. As an Imaging Prize student in Edinburgh you will undertake an excellent project on an aspect of medical imaging, image analysis, an …more
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A multidisciplinary team of clinicians and scientists at the universities of Aberdeen and Dundee have shown for the first time that successful treatment of severe depression with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) …more
This was a meeting funded by the SINAPSE SPIRIT initiative aimed at developing novel and collaborative approaches to Knowledge Exchange in Translational Imaging. The aim of the meeting was to …more
Imaging plays an essential role in medical research. Unexpected or incidental abnormal findings arising in the course of imaging research are common; around 3 to 12% in brain imaging and …more
SINAPSE researcher, Gavin Merrifield has applied MRI techniques to understand the inner workings of a tarantula. MRI scans of blood flowing through the spider’s heart, revealed a double heart beat …more
In a pioneering clinical trial, the ReNeuron Group has announced that the first patient to be treated with the company’s ReN001 stem cell therapy for stroke has been safely discharged …more
The National Institute for Health has awarded £270,000 to SINAPSE researchers in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow for a study, to be led by Prof Joanna Wardlaw (Edinburgh) looking at the …more
The official opening of the Clinical Research Imaging Centre (CRIC) at the University of Edinburgh took place on the 29th of October 2010 by HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of …more
NEXXUS Best Oral Presentation: Benson Mwangi Irungu, Dundee NEXXUS Best Poster Presentation: Dr Gordon Waiter, Aberdeen BIR Clearest Communication Prize: Samantha Conlin, Edinburgh
RCR AUDIT – The Royal College of Radiologists national audit of pre-operative staging and treatment of rectal cancer is a trainee driven project initiated by the Oncology Registrar Forum of …more
SINAPSE is very pleased to announce that Victoria Gradin, SINAPSE PhD student, has just won a very competitive invitation to present at the 23rd European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Congress, …more
Cabinet Secretary for Education and Life Long Learning Michael Russell MSP visited the offices of Toshiba Medical Visualisation Systems Europe (TMVSE) in Edinburgh on 24th March to hear about their …more