The 12-tonne magnet for the scanner is delivered to SUBIC. Photo: Fransisco Lacerda.
The 12-tonne magnet for the scanner is delivered to SUBIC. Photo: Fransisco Lacerda.


At the end of August, an important component was delivered to the facilities in the Arrhenius Laboratories: the 12-tonne magnet for the scanner. The installation required the use of a mobile crane.

Francisco Lacerda, Professor of Phonetics at the Department of Linguistics. Photo: Annika Hallman.
Francisco Lacerda, Professor of Phonetics at the Department of Linguistics. Photo: Annika Hallman.

“The scanner is one of SUBIC’s main attractions and will be used as a three-dimensional ‘x-ray’ where you can see the brain’s various tissues, connections between different areas of the brain, as well as navigate through the research subjects’ brains. The principle actually has nothing do to with x-rays, but people often incorrectly call it an ‘x-ray’,” says Francisco Lacerda, Professor of Phonetics at the Department of Linguistics and one of the driving forces behind the new centre.