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Postdoctoral Position in Spinal Cord MRI |
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A two-year post-doctoral position is open at CRMBM
(Centre de Résonance Magnétique Biologique et Médicale, CNRS)in
Marseille, France. http://crmbm.univmed.fr/spip.php?rubrique6 The main goal of the project is to improve the non invasive characterization of the spinal cord (SC) traumatic pathologies through the assessment of structural, vascular and metabolism information. In a first approach, development and optimization of non invasive in vivo SC MR imaging strategies will be performed. Such strategies involve diffusion, spectroscopy and perfusion MRI methods. The techniques will be applied to mouse SC injuries in combination with functional tests and histology. The transfer of the most relevant and efficient MR techniques to human studies is also part of the project. CRMBM offers an in-house state-of-the-art small animal imaging platform with Bruker 4.7T and 11.75T MRI systems. CRMBM is also equipped with Siemens 1.5T and 3T systems totally dedicated to human researches. The candidate will develop and validate MR techniques for mouse SC investigations and participate to the transfer to human SC study. He/she will be integrated in a multidisciplinary experienced team of MRI method scientists, engineers and biologists. We search
for candidates with good expertise in small animal MRI method
development and applications. Experience with post-processing environments like IDL
or Matlab will be necessary. Knowledge of Bruker operating system (PVM)
and skills in pulse sequence programming would be greatly appreciated. |