Ravi Menon, PhD, featured by Canadians for Health Research

Robarts researcher Ravi Menon, PhD, was featured by Canadians for Health Research as their Researcher of the Month for March.

"The magnet", as Dr. Ravi Menon fondly calls the magnetic resonance imager (MRI), is like a car. Models range from a 1.5 Tesla (1.5T) subcompact to the powerful 7T Ferrari. Most MRIs in clinical practice in Canada are 1.5T, mid-size, family cars.

Menon drives a Ferrari. His laboratory at Robarts Research Institute (RRI) has the only ultra-high field (7T) human MRI in Canada...