Research
The Department of Radiology is committed to excellence in research by pioneering new advances in technological innovation. As one of the top radiology departments in the world, we are recognized for our strengths in physics, engineering, molecular imaging, and clinical medicine.
Major areas of our cutting-edge research include three key programs on the leading edge of science and technology:
- Physics and engineering of medical imaging;
- Molecular imaging;
- Biocomputation with 3D image visualization and quantitation.
The creation of the Richard M. Lucas Center for Imaging has positioned Stanford in the top tier of institutions pursuing fundamental advances in medical imaging. Our noninvasive methods have yielded powerful insights into so many areas by making visible what was once invisible. This spirit of adventure and discovery has continued with the opening of the Clark Center facility in 2003 and the groundbreaking Lucas Center expansion, which opened in early 2005. Housing state-of-the-art imaging research facilities, the Clark Center and the expanded Lucas Center provide much needed space to continue and extend our efforts in MRI, through the installation of the 7T magnet, and in molecular imaging, with the addition of the cyclotron, wet labs, and radiochemistry facilities.
Moving into 2008, we anticipate the continued improvement of our patient-care imaging facilities, expansion of our important educational goals, and success of our research efforts. We look forward to leading the evolution of radiology and medical imaging from an anatomically based specialty and practice to a specialty also based on molecular medicine.
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