About Us
The Purdue Life Science MRI Facility is a Purdue Core facility supported by the College of Health and Human Sciences, housing a 3T Siemens MAGNETOM Prisma MRI scanner. The facility is dedicated to the advancement of basic and applied life science research on the Purdue campus with an emphasis in understanding human health and disease. Examples of current research topics include nutrition, environmental health, psychology, basic brain research, speech, language and auditory disorders, motor disorders, autism, cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders. The goal of the Purdue Life Science MRI Facility is to create a supportive environment promoting research on any and all life science-related topics.
In Regards to Referencing the MRI Facility:
Since the Life Science MRI Facility was funded by an NIH S10 instrumentation grant, users who publish any data acquired on the Siemens Prisma Scanner must acknowledge the following Grant in any publication:
S10 OD012336 - 3T MRI Scanner dedicated to Life Sciences Research
PI: Ulrike Dydak
Suggested Language: Data acquisition was supported in part by NIH grant S10 OD012336.
If you already have a publication, where this was omitted, please sign in to NCBI, go to Manage My Bibliography and click “Add Award” (or click on the number of awards already associated with the publication). There you can search for other awards than your own, and by typing in the info on the grant above, you will be able to link this grant to your publication.
This linking of the publication to the grant is extremely important for our annual reports back to NIH about the instrumentation grant!
Thank you,
The Life Science MRI Facility
