Queensland Node

About

The Queensland NIF Node integrates two imaging facilities that together provide a translational pathway from discovery to preclinical testing through to first-in-human studies and clinical trials.

The University of Queensland’s Centre for Advanced Imaging (CAI) is located within the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN). It provides a comprehensive preclinical, human imaging and radiopharmaceutical capability. Through the CAI, researchers connect basic research in physical, biological and behavioural sciences with better treatments for human diseases and development of new therapies and medicines. CAI houses a cyclotron which can produce radiopharmaceuticals for discovery, clinical studies and helping industry and clinicians develop new diagnostics and therapeutics. CAI also supports imaging of agricultural animals and plant material, minerals and construction materials.

The Herston Imaging Research Facility (HIRF) is a strategic partnership of UQ, QUT and Queensland Health’s Metro North Hospitals and Health Service. It is optimally located at the Herston Health Precinct, next to Queensland’s largest public hospital (RBWH), the new Queensland Cancer Centre site, and the state-run medical research institute QIMR Berghofer. Its position provides not only access to large patient cohorts but certified radiochemistry facilities at QTRaCE for a broad range of PET radiotracers. HIRF is embedded in health research and innovation, education, training and clinical care.

Locations

Centre for Advanced Imaging

The University of Queensland
Building 57 University Dr
St Lucia QLD 4067

Herston Imaging Research Facility

Level 3, Building 71/918
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
Herston QLD 4006

Publications

Considerations and recommendations from the ISMRM Diffusion Study Group for preclinical diffusion MRI: Part 3—Ex vivo imaging: Data processing, comparisons with microscopy, and tractography

Kurt G. Schilling, Amy F. D. Howard, Francesco Grussu, Andrada Ianus, Brian Hansen, Rachel L. C. Barrett, Manisha Aggarwal, Stijn Michielse, Fatima Nasrallah, Warda Syeda, Nian Wang, Jelle Veraart, Alard Roebroeck, Andrew F. Bagdasarian, Cornelius Eichner, Farshid Sepehrband, Jan Zimmermann, Lucas Soustelle, Christien Bowman, Benjamin C. Tendler, Andreea Hertanu, Ben Jeurissen, Marleen Verhoye, Lucio Frydman, Yohan van de Looij, David Hike, Jeff F. Dunn, Karla Miller, Bennett A. Landman, Noam Shemesh, Adam Anderson, Emilie McKinnon, Shawna Farquharson, Flavio Dell'Acqua, Carlo Pierpaoli, Ivana Drobnjak, Alexander Leemans, Kevin D. Harkins, Maxime Descoteaux, Duan Xu, Hao Huang, Mathieu D. Santin, Samuel C. Grant, Andre Obenaus, Gene S. Kim, Dan Wu, Denis Le Bihan, Stephen J. Blackband, Luisa Ciobanu, Els Fieremans, Ruiliang Bai, Trygve B. Leergaard, Jiangyang Zhang, Tim B. Dyrby, G. Allan Johnson, Julien Cohen-Adad, Matthew D. Budde, Ileana O. Jelescu.

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Traumatic brain injury augurs ill for prolonged deficits in the brain’s structural and functional integrity following controlled cortical impact injury

Abdalla Z. Mohamed, Paul Cumming, Fatima A. Nasrallah

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Three-dimensional fossils of a Cretaceous collared carpet shark (Parascylliidae, Orectolobiformes) shed light on skeletal evolution in galeomorphs

Richard P. Dearden, Zerina Johanson, Helen L. O’Neill, , Kieran Miles, Emma L. Bernard, Brett Clark, Charlie J. Underwood, Martin Rücklin.

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Mutation in the rat interleukin 34 gene impacts macrophage development, homeostasis, and inflammation

Stephen Huang, Omkar L Patkar, Sarah Schulze, Dylan Carter-Cusack, Susan Millard, Ginell Ranpura, Emma K Green, Emma Maxwell, Jeeva Kanesarajah, Gary Cowin, Damion Stimson, Nyoman D Kurniawan, Sahar Keshvari, Rachel Allavena, Allison R Pettit, Katharine M Irvine, David A Hume.

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