The clinical MR imaging unit is on the same floor as the medical imaging space, and images from MR, CT, and other modalities can be acquired via any of the workstations. The Positron Emission Tomography Center and cyclotron are located in the basement, one floor below the medical engineering area. The Image Processing Laboratory is available to all students, faculty, and staff in the Medical School. Laboratory facilities consist of a four-processor Sun Enterprise 450 with 2 gigabytes of memory, a large disk array, and backup tape jukebox. Adjacent to the computer room is an image lab available to all students, faculty, and staff.
All students have desktop workstations.
There are two teleclassrooms that allow conference and class connections to other universities in the state as well as satellite downlinks. Classes are regularly offered and are available from universities such as NC State, UNC in Chapel Hill and Charlotte, and Duke. A flow lab is is available to support our current research in vascular stents and other mechanical flow phenomena. Computer controlled flow pumps are used to produce physiologic correct flow patterns that can be used with dye visualization or for quantitative flow measurements with magnetic resonance imaging. LabView is used for real time control and data acquisition.