The CMFI includes 50,000 square feet of laboratory and office space for approximately 130 faculty, research scientists, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students and staff. The main reception area and primary research space is on the third floor of 185 Berry Street, with a view of the Mission Bay campus. Suite 350 includes spacious physics, chemistry, nuclear medicine, tissue culture, and instrumentation development laboratories. Shared resources provide state-of-the-art instrumentation which includes a Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) microscope, a small-animal SPECT/CT dual-modality imaging system, a micro PET/CT, specimen storage, and an animal housing and surgical suite.
On the first floor, is San Francisco’s first high-field 3 Tesla MR scanner, along with a Phillips 16-slice research CT scanner. Additional laboratory and development space on the first floor includes a radiochemistry laboratory, generic laboratory benches for future recruitments, a small bore 7T MRI, and offices and cubicles for desk-based research. The area is contiguous to the UCSF Medical Center's Outpatient Imaging Center which includes CT, MRI, PET/CT and outpatient nuclear medicine. We have blended clinical PET with important work in PET-related research, target development and other molecular imaging research.
With basic scientists nearby at Mission Bay, and members of the Radiology faculty representing physics, nuclear medicine, bioengineering, musculoskeletal research, informatics, and neuroradiology, the Center is well positioned to meet the molecular imaging needs of a diverse academic community at UCSF and to pursue research in all areas of radiology.