HERSTON IMAGING RESEARCH FACILITY
Providing Researchers Unprecedented Access to High Quality Imaging Equipment
HIRF IS ONE OF ONLY A HANDFUL OF IMAGING RESEARCH FACILITIES IN AUSTRALIA AND THE FIRST TO BE DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO CLINICAL RESEARCH.
The facility has been built to cater for the growing role of imaging in clinical research. It gives researchers unprecedented access to high-quality imaging equipment and allows the rapid translation of research into clinical practice.
With its cutting-edge scanning technology, HIRF has the potential to revolutionise patient care in the areas of dementia and ageing, mental illness, brain development and cancer.
HIRF is situated within Australia's largest hospital precinct, the Herston Hospital Campus in Brisbane, Queensland.
LATEST NEWS
Research Collaboration QTRaCE & HIRF
The Nuclear Medicine radiopharmaceutical laboratory (Q-TRacE) at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) and Herston Imaging Research Facility (HIRF) teams collaborated to ensure the successful launch of the first Australia Dementia Network (ADNeT) patient scanned in Australia on the 7th October 2021.
Pictured at the RBWH Hot Lab is the QTRaCE Team (Left to Right)
First Australia Dementia Network (ADNeT) patient scanned in Australia
The HIRF Imaging Team with the first Australia Dementia Network (ADNeT) patient to be scanned in Australia yesterday.
The ADNeT project is a Phase I, multiple site, open label study. The project aims to compare and establish interventions for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases causing dementia.
New epilepsy research aims for freedom of speech
A research collaboration between Mater Hospital, University of Queensland, QUT and the Herston Imaging and Research Facility taking place at both Mater and Royal hospital. This new research which aims to shed light on reducing the loss of speech and language in epilepsy patients who require brain surgery to manage their condition.
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