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August 13th, 2008- fMRI based wine tasting publication:
Caltech researcher Dr. Antonio Rangel generates national media attention with fMRI based wine tasting publication.
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•The Caltech Brain Imaging Center (CBIC) was founded in 2003 through a generous gift form the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The very ambitious and ultimate mission of the Center is to understand human consciousness. On our way to achieving our mission, the researchers of the CBIC are also perusing several intermediate goals of importance:
• to explore the neural basis of higher brain function (Volunteer subjects wanted)
• to develop new tools for the imaging of brain structure and function
• to train a diverse student/faculty group in the science of brain imaging and functional brain mapping
• to foster interdisciplinary research in brain science (Caltech researchers wanted)
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The Caltech Brain Imaging Center is located in the Broad Center on the northwest corner of the Caltech Campus and offers state of the art equipment to researchers in the field of brain science.
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Researchers at the CBIC use state of the art MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanners to conduct research studies of the brain and its mechanisms. Our 14,000 square foot main campus facility houses four High-Field MR systems:
(1) Siemens 3T Trio horizontal bore human magnet for anatomical, functional, and spectroscopic imaging
(2) Bruker 4.7T vertical bore animal magnet
(3) Bruker 7T horizontal bore small animal magnet fitted with a Positron Emission Tomography insert
(4) Bruker 9.4T horizontal bore small animal magnet
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