Some say a picture is worth a thousand words, but when that picture is used to study a brain, its worth is immeasurable.
Taking such images is the task of Sergei Liachenko, M.D., Ph.D., director of the bio-imaging program at the Food and Drug Administration’s National Center for Toxicological Research. Working in a small lab on the NCTR campus south of Little Rock, Ark., Liachenko and his team, in collaboration with the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, are studying the effects of various chemicals on a live rat’s brain.
Their goal is to prove that studying a live animal with a research-grade magnetic resonance imaging device can be at least as accurate, if not more so, as studies performed under current research procedures.
Read More to learn more about how this innovative research could affect research testing.
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