Atlantic Canada will strengthen its position as a world-leading hub for medical imaging and see new jobs created with the opening of a new brain imaging lab at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax. The Clinical Magnetoence-phalography (MEG) Lab will be used to diagnose brain disease such as epilepsy and brain tumours, especially in children.
The centre is a partnership between the National Research Council of Canada, IWK Health Centre, and the proponent of the MEG technology, Elekta Neuromag of Finland. MEG is a completely noninvasive and risk-free neuroimaging technique, and is well suited for a wide range of patients.
“Halifax is emerging as a centre of expertise on the human brain and this facility will be used collaboratively by doctors and researchers from around the globe,” says Dr. Patrick McGrath, Vice- President of Research at the IWK Health Centre.
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