Biomedical Imaging & Technology

[MUSIC PLAYING] NYU is at the forefront of the research on biomedical imaging. So we have some unique machines here. We have a PET/MR combine, so a machine that is able to simultaneously acquire PET and MRI data. Then we have a 7 Tesla machine, which, just to give you an idea, is 460,000 times the magnetic field of the Earth. NYU has a total of 40 MR scanners, so probably more than a small country. And on top of that, we have a brand new radiochemistry lab, which is used basically to develop the tracers which are injected as contrast agents in the patient. As a student, there's a lot of fun toys you get to play with. I work in the hardware RF lab. And so in there, we have all of the cool RF engineering stuff. So we have a router, and we have soldering tools and network analyzers that help us test what we're making. And then we have all of these scanners downstairs that we get to plug our equipment into and see if they work on real patients. One of the secrets of our center is that we are in the same building with a radiologist, and we have a close collaboration with a clinician. And here, we get to talk to the clinicians and the radiologists and see what they need and then develop something for that. And then we work with the company side in order to have our ideas progressed through into what's actually used in the clinic. So stuff that's developed here and other imaging sites has actually gone through into the clinic, is now being used on patients around the world. And so we get to see how that process works hands on, which is really cool. [MUSIC PLAYING]