There is much progress to be made in the early diagnosis of dementia. Dementia is a global challenge (e.g. a relatively high percentage of HIV infected individuals get the disease) …more
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This project will suit a Physicist, Engineer or Mathematician with a knowledge of scientific programming and an interest in developing novel imaging methods that can be used directly in clinical …more
It is now possible the capture the brain signature of behaviour while people are going about their everyday business. At Stirling we have pioneered some of these techniques and look …more
Courtesy of Prof Inke Näthke and Prof Sandy Cochran, this image shows precancerous changes in intestinal tissue detected by microultrasound scanning. Altered properties of precancerous tissue not identified by conventional …more
The identification of myocardial infarction (MI) patients who can benefit from revascularisation remains one of the most challenging aspects of cardiology. Ideally, an assessment of viability following myocardial ischaemia requires …more
The SPRINT-MND/MS (Scottish PhD Research & Innovation Network Traineeships in MND/MS) programme is a network of PhD studentships across Scotland, to promote research into all aspects of motor neurone disease …more
The EASTBIO (East of Scotland BioScience) Doctoral Training Partnership, funded by the BBSRC, offers an excellent programme of collaborative training for PhD students within the Biosciences. The programme includes the …more
The EASTBIO (East of Scotland BioScience) Doctoral Training Partnership, funded by the BBSRC, offers an excellent programme of collaborative training for PhD students within the Biosciences. The programme includes the …more
SINAPSE researchers welcomed image analysis experts from National Taiwan University (NTU) to Scotland in September 2017, as part of an international research collaboration on diffusion MRI data analysis supported by …more
The ‘Women in Medicine’ project, coordinated by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), showcases a number of today’s leading female clinicians and the women from the history of medicine who …more
Members of the newly-revived SINAPSE Image Analysis topic group gathered at the University of Dundee for an inaugural meeting of researchers from around Scotland presenting and discussing work on the …more
Courtesy of Dr Jonathan Fallowfield, this image shows LiverMultiscan MRI axial T1 relaxation maps of liver in the same patient before [left] and 4 weeks after [right] treatment of portal hypertension with non-selective …more
Courtesy of Vasiliki Mallikourti, this image shows an R2* map of the brain where every voxel in the image has an R2* value. R2* is the decay rate of the …more
Heat has been used as a basic and versatile treatment in Medicine for thousands of years. However, there is still relatively little objective evidence regarding how and when heat treatments …more
The UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) is a £250 million initiative dedicated to addressing the challenge of defeating dementia. The institute consists of 6 centres across the UK; its …more