Congratulations to CIBIT Postdoc Dr Monique Tourell who has been awarded an ARC Early Career Industry Fellowship $490,000 for a collaborative project with Siemens Healthineers and Skope Magnetic Resonance Technologies. The project 'Pulse sequence development for ultra-high field Magnetic Resonance Imaging' builds on Monique's CIBIT research with Siemens Healthineers.

The project aims to develop a suite of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) pulse sequences at ultra-high magnetic field (UHF) strengths. UHF is at the cutting edge of MRI research but remains largely inaccessible to non-MRI specialists. This project expects to expand the capability of UHF imaging for research fields such as neuroscience and psychology, nationally and internationally. The expected outcome of this project is a suite of robust, commercially viable pulse sequences that allow researchers to use UHF imaging to expand our knowledge in the areas of brain function, anatomy, tissue composition and connectivity. This should provide significant benefits in understanding brain development, disease progression and presentation.