MRI Core
The MRI Core is directed by Clifford R. Jack, M.D., Professor of Radiology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. The MRI Core creates and distributes standardized MRI acquisition protocols to each ADNI clinical site, oversees MRI site qualification and quality assurance and quality control to ensure consistency across sites and scanners. The MRI core is also responsible for tracking all MRI data acquisition, and ensuring the performance of data processing pipelines.
The Core works with funded ADNI investigators, including Petrice Cogswell, M.D., Charles S. DeCarli, M.D., Arvin Forghanian-Arani, Ph.D., Jeffrey Gunter, Ph.D., Nick Fox, M.D., Christopher Schwarz, Ph.D., Paul M. Thompson, Ph.D., Duygu Tosun, Ph.D., Paul A. Yushkevich, Ph.D., to distribute harmonized post-processed images and numeric summary data.
