Dr Gary Cowin    Nif Facility Fellow

	Biography

Dr Gary Cowin is the Facility Fellow for the Queensland Node of the National Imaging Facility (NIF) as part of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme (NCRIS), based at the Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland.

Dr Cowin's research projects are:

• Development of magnetic resonance techniques for non-invasive determination of liver steatosis and fibrosis
  
  
• Monitoring changing fat distribution in diabetes and exercise trials
  
  
• Application of ultrahigh field MRI for mouse spinal cord imaging
  
  
• Manganese enhanced guinea pig brain imaging
  
  
• Molecular imaging of novel contrast agents by MRI
  
  
• Prostate imaging for detection of cancer
  
  
• MRI zebrafish brain atlas
  
  
• Lung imaging with hyperpolarized Helium in humans and animals
  
  
• Investigation of the effect of gradient non-linearity on image quality

	Links
	Centre for Advanced Imaging homepage

	Keywords
	Science and Technology: Imaging Sciences