Richard Frayne, CBEB 2016

Research Publications

Much of our scientific output is presented as talks at scientific meetings and papers in scholarly journals. Our graduate students summarize their research in a thesis dissertation. Working at the Seaman Family MR Centre also facilitates translation of new ideas and approaches to patient populations.

VIL presentation from Luis Souto Maior at the 2018 ISMRM in Paris, France.

Presentations

We frequently present our results at important regional, national and international conference, meetings and workshops. Trainees are encouraged to present their research at one or more national or international meetings per year.

VIL collaborators and alumni meeting at the 2012 ISMRM Meeting in Melbourne, Australia.

Papers

Publications are a major output of the Vascular Imaging Laboratory team. This effort includes peer-reviewed journal papers in high-impact journals. On average, members contribute to eight - ten papers per year; approximately 70% of those papers have a trainee as primary author.

Mariana Bento, Vas•Cog Meeting, 2018

Theses

Many of our papers are derived from our theses. Graduate student research is written up in a theses dissertations. In addition, many of our undergraduate trainees also have written papers.

Research Translation

The Vascular Imaging Laboratory team is based at the Seaman Family MR Centre, which is a specialized imaging research facility based within the Foothills Medical Centre. The Foothills Medical Centre is one of the largest academic medical centres in Canada and the tertiary care healthcare facility for southern Alberta. Convenient access to patients (via clinical collaborations) facilitates the translation of novel ideas into patient care. Regular multi-disciplinary seminars further facilitate translation.

Translation is further supported by participation in provincial, national and international networks which have seen our techniques provided to other centres across Canada, and data from around the world sent to Calgary for management and processing using the Calgary Image Processing and Analysis Centre (CIPAC).

Finally, two patents have been awarded on our work at the Vascular Imaging Laboratory.