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Guide to accessing the Centre

The key steps involved in the initiation of a study, incorporation of Centre-specific information into applications for funding and ethical approval, and performance of the study are:

  1. Contact our CIVI Admin staff with your study expression of interest and a Costings Request form will be provided to you.
  2. Discuss your project plans with Dr David Cousins or Dr Pete Thelwall, if required.
  3. If your study is accepted, study costs will be finalised and relevant information provided to you for your ethics application; it is our policy that scanner safety information provided by our MR physics team is incorporated into applications for ethical approval.
  4. Submit your grant application and ethics application and notify the Centre of successful funding and ethical approval.
  5. Your study is registered with us once all approvals are in place.
  6. Schedule your study scans and attend MR safety training, if applicable.

Details of the documents required to undertake scanning at the Centre can be found in steps in launching a study


Key steps in study imitation

The steps are similar for all CIVI facilities

After making contact, we will ask you to complete Costing Request form in which you will need to outline the nature of the study as well as the facilities you need access to. Details of the stages and documents required are outlined in steps in launching a study. The information you provide will allow the CIVI team to establish whether we have the capacity and capability to support your research. You may wish to speak to one of the physicists or clinicians when completing this form. Once capacity, capability and costings have been agreed, you can proceed with the grant application. If successful, we can support study set up, which includes registration at NMRC, research staff induction and safety training, finalising of MRI sequences and the logistics of scan booking, and clinical room use.


Research scans

NMRC works collaboratively with researchers across a broad range of disciplines, conducting clinical and healthy volunteer research.

We would be happy to discuss any research proposal, from novel development to delivery of established protocols. In any project, it is important that we are consulted early so that we can better assist with study design, development, and conduct. It is particularly important that we are involved before the process of ethics application, to support the correct statements regarding safety and radiology reporting for incidental findings.


Clinical scans

Imaging for clinical purposes is conducted at NMRC in addition to our research activities. We accept referrals from local NHS Trusts as well as private practitioners and medicolegal firms.