Various faculty at NYU Langone Medical Center, including NYU WIRELESS professors from the department of Radiology, have joined the newly-funded national Biomedical Technology Resource Center: The Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI²R).  The Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research combines three interrelated areas of novel imaging technology development with a unique new model for interdepartmental and academic-industrial collaboration aimed at translating that technology rapidly and effectively into clinical practice.

The technologies to be developed center around a new paradigm of continuous acquisition and flexible image reconstruction, which will affect and connect multiple imaging modalities including Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET). The NIH P41 grant for CAI²R was selected for funding in September by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).