Carmel Moran (PhD FIPEM FIoP)
Personal Chair of Preclinical Ultrasound
- Centre for Cardiovascular Science
Contact details
- Tel: + 44 131 242 6319
- Email: carmel.moran@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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The Queen's Medical Research Institute, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh BioQuarter
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4TJ
Research summary
The primary focus of my research is high frequency ultrasound and ultrasonic contrast agents. In 2008, with Wellcome Trust funding (£516K), I established the preclinical ultrasound imaging facility at the University of Edinburgh and have recently been part of a successful application to the Wellcome Trust to establish a preclinical large animal imaging facility. Using ultrasound imaging, we can image adult, neonates and embryonic hearts, livers and kidneys and study their structure and blood flow dynamics in real-time. Additionally using in-house and commerically available ultrasonic contrast agents, we can study the perfusion of organs. In collaboration with NHS colleagues, I am developing novel high resolution test phantoms for performance assessment of preclincial imaging techniques.