Facility

Waisman Center North Tower

The Waisman Brain Imaging Core is located on the first and second floors of the 2001 addition to the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. It houses a High-Performance GE MAGNUS 3T scanner for structural and functional brain imaging, a Siemens Biograph Horizon PET/CT and Siemens EXACT HR+ PET scanners for human PET studies, a Concorde Microsystems microPET-P4 system for non-human primate PET studies, a NEC tandem van de Graaff ion beam accelerator and radiochemistry labs for the production of PET radiotracers, an MRI simulator room, an MRI preparation room for pre- and post-scan behavioral measures, image processing areas with extensive computing facilities, a fully-equipped experimental suite for combined behavioral and psychophysiological recordings, conference rooms, and office space.