Focused Ultrasound

To initiate a new focused ultrasound project, please send an email to Wynn Legon (wlegon@vtc.vt.edu) and Jason Raymond (jlraymond@vtc.vt.edu) .

Working hours for faculty-operated studies are from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. A minimum advance notice of 24 hours is required for staff-operated studies. Access depends upon equipment and faculty availability.

The Core facility will keep all the imaging leaders posted on the status of the equipment (e.g. incident report, maintenance, QC, etc.)

Please contact Dr. Wynn Legon (wlegon@vtc.vt.edu) and Jason Raymond (jlraymond@vtc.vt.edu) for details on required safety and instrument-specific training.

All core users must undergo corresponding safety trainings. After the equipment and project specific training, the researcher must observe use of the facility for at least 10 hours, or until both researchers and facility directors are confident the researcher can run the equipment independently. 

Clinical Research Trials: The facility directors will coordinate with the large-bore MRI staff to provide MR Imaging service.

Grant support: The facility offers consulting service for your research grant proposal. We can provide the letter of support, biosketch, and generate preliminary images/figures for your grant proposal as long as the procedures is covered by our imaging protocol. Please contact Dr. Wynn Legon  (wlegon@vtc.vt.edu) and Dr. Jason Raymond (jlraymond@vtc.vt.edu) for further information.

Imaging service, data storage and transfer, data safety and imaging processing: Please contact Jason Raymond (jlraymond@vtc.vt.edu)  or our Information Technology team (help@vtcri.kayako.com) for more information

Quality assurance and maintenance: The core facility will be responsible for the quality assurance and maintenance of the equipment based on the guidelines.

Human clinical research will be performed by a clinician or surgeon.

All users must pass the training and have the approval from facility faculty director and facility director before using the focused ultrasound equipment.

Focused ultrasound facility: Room G406, 4 Riverside Circle, Roanoke

Parking: During business hours, visitors may park in designated visitor parking places at the entrance to the parking garage at 2 Riverside Circle. Visitors may also park on the 2nd - 6th floors of the parking garage located at 5 Riverside Circle. On nights and weekends, visitors may park anywhere in the 5 Riverside parking garage, as well as the surface lot and parking deck. All parking is free.