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Auburn University breaks ground on MRI research center
Published: 08-Feb-2010
Auburn University in the US and the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering has started construction of the new $21 million facility that will house Auburn University's new Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Research Center.
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Located in the Auburn Research Park on Devall Drive, the architect for the project is Perkins +Will, and the construction manager is Brasfield & Gorrie.
The first floor of the 45,000 square feet facility will house a Siemens Verio open-bore 3T MRI scanner that will be used for both clinical and research use, as well as the nation's first actively shielded whole-body 7T MRI. There are only 28 7T scanners worldwide. Auburn's 7T will be one of two located in the southeastern US and will be the only actively shielded unit in the US. This unit will be used solely for research. Thomas Denney, Auburn University professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been named director of the new research center.
East Alabama Medical Center will lease approximately 3,000 square feet, including the 3T scanner for a clinical imaging operation. This floor will also house offices and waiting rooms, as well as a research laboratory.
The second floor of the building will contain a coil laboratory, office space for faculty and staff associated with the MRI Research Center and a distance-learning-enabled classroom for MRI training. It will also house office space for the Orthopedic Clinic, as well as the US Army Aeromedical Research Lab, or USAARL, which will collaborate with Auburn on research on head and spinal injuries.
Third-floor tenants will include EAMC Rehab Works, Auburn's Department of Kinesiology, The Auburn Spine and Neurosurgery Center with the office of Auburn adjunct professor and neurosurgeon Lee Warren, and Warren Innovation Inc. Warren will be involved with the MRI Research Center and the distance-learning classroom.
Construction began in January 2010 with a projected completion date in September2010.
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