Please visit NORMOLIMs three sites for more information on local expertise:

Trondheim –  Brain imaging – MR Core Facility – NTNU     Leader: Marius Widerøe

Bergen – Cancer imaging – Molecular Imaging Center – UiB     Leader: Frits Thorsen

Oslo – Cardiac imaging – Preclinical MR Core Facility – OUS     Leader: Ivar Sjaastad

Special imaging methods:

• Manganese Enhanced MR Imaging.
• Multimodal MR combining in vivo MR imaging, in vivo multi-nuclear MR spectroscopy, and ex vivo MR metabolomics of intact tissue samples/biopsies.
• Metabolomics studies using MR spectroscopy with ¹³C enriched substrates.
• High-resolution MR phase contrast imaging of myocardial strain and motion.
• High-end MRI and ultrasound-based analysis of regional myocardial function combined with advanced electrophysiological and live cell imaging techniques.
• Multimodal imaging (MRI, PET/CT, OI, US) of tumour development and treatment effects on malignant tumours.
• Ultrasound strain imaging and elastography.
• Ultrasound scanning in animal models for IBD and PDAC (microbubbles and sonoporation).
• In vivo time-domain optical imaging of cancer, particularly with discrimination of targeted near-infrared fluorophores from endogenous background or non-targeted probe.