Get a Research MRI

Updated Feb 10, 2025 1:30pm

The official address of the building is: 

Bioscience Research Laboratory
1230 N Cherry Ave.
Tucson AZ, 85719
Scanner Phone: 626-2542 

Here is a captioned video of the MRI experience for potential participants (If you don't see captioning, look for the tiny CC icon on the lower right, if it is greyed out, then click it to make it dark.  The first 30 seconds are silent, you'll start to hear sound after that.)

Where to Go: 

In the google map snapshot below you see the BSRL marked with a red balloon (1230 N Cherry Ave). Here's a powerpoint map to the building provided by Kristina Irwin. If you are already on campus, you can probably walk to the building. 

Parking: The blue square in the map below is the parking lot (Zone 1, Lot 2147) across Cherry. The smaller red square marks the three MRI participant parking spots. Google maps can locate the parking lot if you ask, e.g., "University of Arizona lot 2147".  To park in the reserved spaces, you will need a parking permit to place in your car window.  The permit may be mailed to you before you come, or given to you once you arrive, depending on the lab you are working with.  In general, parking will be reserved for participants who are coming from off-campus. 

BSRL from the intersection of Cherry and Helen:

Driving North along Cherry: BSRL with a crosswalk to breezeway:

Parking lot 2147 on left; BSRL on right:

Parking Lot 2147 (blue square on google map above) with MRI Participant Parking: 

There are seven MRI Participant Parking Spaces in Lot 2147 (Do NOT park in the adjacent handicapped parking!  Only the MRI Participant slots are reserved for our participants):

Closeup of an MRI Participant Parking Sign:

A view of the BSRL from the MRI Participant parking slots:

BSRL Sign: 1230 N Cherry Ave (at the entrance to the breezeway):

The door into the scanner waiting room is on the Northside of the breezeway.  The door is unlocked during business hours so you can wait comfortably.

BSRL Breezeway: The MRI Waiting room on the left side (North); 

(There is a Cafe on the right side (South). Although the Cafe is nice, we want you to come to the MRI waiting room):

MRI Waiting room (North side of complex).  An authorized researcher will meet you and take you downstairs. 

Here we are a bit closer: you see the keypad for after hours, and you see the sign "MRI Research Scanner".

Here's a closer look at the sign:

You can wait in the nice chairs in the MRI Waiting room.   

This is one of our scanner techs, Scott Squire, at the MRI console in the basement. The MRI scanner is on the other side of the window.

And here is the MRI scanner: