Housed under the Yale Bioimaging Institute are the PET and MR imaging cores. Both the PET and MR cores are revenue-neutral (fee-for-service) inter-institutional service providers.
The Yale PET Core is an FDA-registered radiotracer manufacturing and imaging facility supporting over 1,000 human and 300 small animal scans annually. The core is equipped with a GE PETtrace cyclotron, radiochemistry lab, and eight PET scanners – a United Imaging NeuroEXPLORER and Siemens Vision, mCT, HRRT, three Focus 220 and one Inveon. It supports both human and preclinical studies, enabling advanced PET research even for investigators without technical expertise.
The Yale MR Core is an interdisciplinary research service that provides state-of-the-art MR imaging for acquisition, methodology, and data analysis. The core is equipped with five whole-body MRI scanners, including three Siemens 3T Prisma systems, a 3T Vida, and a Bruker 4T, plus two preclinical magnets (9.4T and 11.7T). With expert staff and custom-built equipment, the core supports hardware development, pulse sequence strategies, and research-focused data storage and analysis.