Research facility employs new tech to take on TB, dementia

Singapore's first national platform for research imaging in diseases opened November 11, with the aim of focusing on diseases relevant to Singapore and Asia, such as tuberculosis and dementia.

The Clinical Imaging Research Centre (CIRC), located in the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, will be the first in Southeast Asia to use MR/PET scanner technology, or magnetic resonance (MR) imaging-compatible positron emission tomographic (PET) technology. Read more.