Facility Fellows

University of Queensland:
Facility Fellow
Dr Gary Cowin

Dr Cowin develops new MR based projects on Bruker (2T human, 4.6T large animal system and a 16.4T small animal micro-imaging system) and Siemens MRI systems (1.5T clinical and 4T research systems) for Human and Animal studies. He has extensive experience investigating fat localisation in the muscle (calf), liver and abdomen in projects with diabetic patients, HRT patients, obese children and up-regulation of intra-myocellular fat utilisation. Dr Cowin is involved in various aspects of MRI QA, including effects of gradient non-linearity on image quality. He is developing hyperpolarised gas lung imaging in both human and animals, obtaining the first Helium images in Australia. Dr Cowin investigates the resolution limits of MR micro-imaging and the potential benefits of contrast agents for very high field imaging, including mouse, rat and zebra fish projects.

Postal Address:
Centre for Advance Imaging
Level 2 Gehrmann Laboratories (60)
University of Queensland
St Lucia, Qld 4072

P: +61 7 3365 8378 | E: gary.cowin@cmr.uq.edu.au

University of New South Wales:
Facility Fellow
Dr Carl Power

Dr Carl Power is the primary contact person for the UNSW Animal Imaging Facility (AIF). This facility currently comprises an Olympus intravital microscope, a Siemens Inveon microCT system, a Xenogen Lumina optical imaging system, a Visualsonics ultrasound and a Faxitron cabinat X-ray machine, all located within a clean small animal (mice and rats) research facility to allow multimodality. Dr Power will provide training on these instruments and arrange access for researchers and act as a liaison between the UNSW AIF and the other node personnel. Dr Power is also a researcher working in the Oncology Research Centre with interests in bone metastasis and tumour immunology.

Postal Address:
Prince of Wales Hospital
Barker Street
Randwick, NSW 2031
Australia

P: +61 2 9382 2613 | E: c.power@unsw.edu.au

University of New South Wales, (POWMRI):
Facility Fellow
Dr Michael Green

My role is to assist researchers using our 3T MRI system for animal imaging in terms of infrastructure, analysis and imaging procedures. My own interests have been predominantly in human brain MR Elastography imaging; an imaging sequence which examines the in-vivo viscoelastic nature of the brain as a potential indicator for brain disease.

Postal Address:
Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute
Barker Street
Randwick, NSW 2031
Australia

P: +61 2 9399 1086 | E: m.green@powmri.edu.au

University of Western Sydney:
Facility Fellow
Dr Tim Stait-Gardner

Dr Stait-Gardner is Facility Fellow at the UWS node of the NIF where he oversees external use of the 11.7 Tesla MRI and 7 Tesla Animal MRI located respectively at UWS’s Campbelltown and Hawkesbury campuses. He also conducts his own research in NMR diffusometry which includes theoretical simulation and pulse sequence design and is interested in speeding up diffusion measurements significantly while still retaining other information such as chemical shifts. Such fast diffusion sequences will not only allow for much more efficient use of NMR spectrometers but will also extend the application of diffusion measurements into previously inaccessible time domains.

Postal Address:
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith South DC
New South Wales 1797
Australia

P: +61 2 4620 3216 | E: t.stait-gardner@uws.edu.au

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