UTHealth Houston Behavioral Sciences Imaging Center

The UTHealth Houston Behavioral Sciences Imaging Center is an advanced research imaging and computational center is a state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary research facility dedicated to high-resolution neuroimaging, biomedical research, translational science, and advanced computational analysis. The center is anchored by a 3 Tesla Siemens MAGNETOM Prisma MRI system, providing sophisticated research imaging capabilities, high spatial and temporal resolution, and advanced acquisition protocols to support cutting-edge neuroscience, behavioral health, cognitive science, and clinical research.

The center integrates advanced imaging technology, high-performance computing, and multidisciplinary scientific expertise. The team includes board-certified radiologists, board-certified physicists, highly trained and research-experienced MRI technologists, computational scientists, and specialized research personnel. This infrastructure supports MRI acquisition, protocol development, image quality assurance, advanced image processing, artificial intelligence and machine-learning applications, data management, and translational research.

Core Infrastructure and Capabilities
• 3T Siemens MAGNETOM Prisma MRI with advanced research capabilities
• High-resolution structural, functional, diffusion, and quantitative MRI
• Advanced MRI sequence development and optimization
• High spatial and temporal resolution imaging
• Board-certified radiologist expertise and oversight
• Board-certified medical physics expertise
• Expert MRI technologists trained in advanced research imaging
• Dedicated MRI safety and quality-assurance infrastructure
• High-performance cluster computing environment capable of large-scale data processing, high-performance computation, and advanced computational modeling
• High-capacity research data storage designed to support large imaging datasets, longitudinal studies, multimodal datasets, and computational research
• Computational infrastructure supporting big-data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, image processing, neuroinformatics, and advanced statistical modeling
• Dedicated stimulation laboratories for experimental and multimodal research paradigms
• Dedicated participant interview and assessment rooms
• Research participant preparation and behavioral assessment areas
• Infrastructure for integrating imaging with behavioral, cognitive, physiological, and other multimodal research data

Integrated Research Environment
The center is designed to provide an end-to-end research ecosystem, allowing investigators to move from participant recruitment and assessment through experimental stimulation and MRI acquisition to high-performance computational analysis and secure research data storage within an integrated facility.

The combination of state-of-the-art 3T MRI technology, expert clinical and scientific personnel, specialized stimulation and assessment laboratories, and high-performance computing and data-storage infrastructure enables the center to support sophisticated, reproducible, large-scale, and translational research programs.

UTHealth Houston Behavioral Sciences Imaging Center provides the technological, clinical, scientific, and computational infrastructure necessary to conduct next-generation neuroimaging and biomedical research—from data acquisition to large-scale computation, artificial intelligence, and discovery.

Contact Us

Email: Bindu Pillai, Senior Program Manager

Phone: 713-486-2678