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Article: UCI RECEIVES MAJOR GRANT TO HELP CREATE NATIONAL METHODS AND STANDARDS FOR FUNCTIONAL BRAIN IMAGING
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- March 13, 2006
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The University of California at Irvine issued the following press release:
A nationwide consortium of researchers, led by UC Irvine brain imaging specialist Dr. Steven Potkin, has received a $24.3 million grant from the NIH's National Center for Research Resources to standardize functional magnetic resonance imaging and help make large-scale studies on brain disease and illness possible for the first time.
The five-year grant marks the next phase of the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN), which was formed in 2001 to build the technology and methods needed for researchers to share brain scan data. UCI is the lead site for the consortium grant, which is the second-largest in the ...