updated 01:55 pm EDT, Thu May 26, 2005
G5s in research center
Images from the scanners at one of Europe's most important centers for the study of the human brain, are analysed using a powerful . The York NeuroImaging Centre, located at the University of York, opens Friday. The Centre's £1.1 million MagnetoEncephaloGraphic (MEG) scanner, the first of its kind in Europe, provides a non-invasive way of mapping the magnetic fields created by electrical activity in the brain.The Center is devising research programs for studies of autism, epilepsy, dementia and stroke and is actively encouraging collaborative projects.