Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging

the spinoza centre for neuroimaging is a collaboration between the netherlands institute for neuroscience, university of amsterdam, academic medical center, vu university, vu university medical centre amsterdam and royal netherlands academy of science. the spinoza centre offers its ultrasensitive mri-scanners to researchers in the amsterdam region for their fundamental research into the workings of the brain and brain disorders. the centre houses two 3 tesla scanners and one ultra high-field 7 tesla mri-scanner. currently only four human 7 tesla mri scanners are operational in the netherlands. the ultra high-field mri visualizes the brain at unprecedented high resolution, in terms of function, anatomy and metabolism in the living human brain. we collaborate with several national and international research institutes and companies, for example the university medical centers of leiden and utrecht, both also involved in research with a 7 tesla scanner from philips who is also a participan