The research of the Functional Imaging Unit focuses on the further development of these methods. Our goals are to contribute to clarification of important questions on basic biomedical research through optimizations and new developments in the imaging processes and to the magnetic resonance methods for the study of diseases in the animal model as well as to further improve human diagnostics. Due to the non-invasiveness and non-destructiveness of MRI and MRS, we can apply comparable methods in small laboratory animals, in various non-human primates and in humans.