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A groundbreaking study

The Champaign-Urbana Population Study is the first joint research study of the Carle Illinois Advanced Imaging Center

At the center, Carle Health and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jointly operate the Siemens 7 T Magnetom Terra MRI scanner. In the study's first phase, volunteer adult participants will establish a baseline for future studies.

A patient is wheeled into the 7 Tesla MRI

Data collected

The study's researchers will collect neuroimaging data using the 7 Tesla scanner, questionnaires, interviews, and cognitive assessment data. The neuroimaging protocol includes anatomical/structural, resting state functional connectivity, elastography, and spectroscopic imaging data.