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CFMM: Canada’s National Ultra-High Field MRI Platform

Project Overview

Brain imaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an essential tool in modern neuroscience, with many uses for examining brain structure and function in health and disease. The Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping (CFMM) at Western’s Robarts Research Institute houses Canada’s only collection of high-field (3 Tesla human) and ultra-high field (7 T human and 9.4 T animal) MRI systems. A Tesla is a unit of magnetic field and is equal to about 20,000 times the earth’s magnetic field. The Centre is dedicated to establishing the anatomical, metabolic and functional characteristics of normal brain development and healthy ageing across the lifespan; as well as establishing the brain basis of developmental, neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative deficits. The CFMM enables the research of over several hundred local, regional and national faculty and trainees, including many international collaborators, as well as many Canadian and multinational companies. Students from a number of CIHR and NSERC training programs (based at Western and elsewhere) also acquire their data at the CFMM, and several large consortia such as the multiple Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) programs, the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration and Ageing (CCNA) and the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) utilize the facilities as well. Data sharing is accomplished through these consortia, the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP) and the PRIME-DE initiative. Neuroscientists use the CFMM to peer inside the brain of human subjects to understand normal brain function as well as to examine what gets disrupted in diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Schizophrenia. They also use MRI to study animal models of these disease used to develop cures for these devastating conditions.

Principal Investigator

Ravi Menon , University of Western Ontario

Team Members

Robert Bartha, Robarts Research Institute

Stefan Everling, University of Western Ontario

Elizabeth Finger, University of Western Ontario

Adrian Owen, University of Western Ontario

Jody Culham, University of Western Ontario

Lena Palaniyappan, London Health Sciences Centre

Corey Baron, Western University

Marieke Mur, Western University

Ali Kahn, Western University

Partners and Donors

University of Western Ontario

Project Ongoing

CFMM: Canada’s National Ultra-High Field MRI Platform

  • Grant Type

    Platform grants

  • Area of research

    Neurotechnology

  • Disease Area

    Other

  • Competition

    2019 Platform Support Grants

  • Province

    Ontario

  • Start Date

    2021

  • Total Grant Amount

    $2,850,000

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $1,425,000

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