Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research
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RESEARCH AT UCAIR

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The Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research (UCAIR) constitutes the RESEARCH division of the University of Utah Department of Radiology. The faculty are chiefly Ph.D. qualified physicists and mathematicians working to improve the ways in which we gather and process images for scientific analysis.

What is “imaging”?

Imaging science encompasses all of those technologies required to visualize objects not readily visible to the naked eye. Our emphasis is on medical imaging, but we have interests in engineering and material sciences too.

What do we do?

We design and develop both the machines and the computer programs required to make an image. For example – Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a valuable tool that allows the physician to make an image of human anatomy. UCAIR has improved both the devices to acquire the image data and the computer programs that turn the image data into a picture useful to the physician.


Which imaging technologies do we work on?

UCAIR faculty are funded to research the design and development of: