The University of Virginia is located in the city of Charlottesville where it also operates a tertiary care 600-bed hospital, which is part of the University of Virginia Health System. All departments of the University are located on the central grounds in Charlottesville. Departments such as Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering Physics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are in close proximity to the Medical School. All major research buildings of the School of Medicine, which includes the Medical Research building (MR4) housing the Radiological Research Laboratory and the new Biomedical Engineering and Medical Sciences building (MR5), are contiguous or very close to one another. In 2003 a new research whole-body 1.5 Tesla MRI system will be installed in a $1 million annex building currently under construction adjacent to the Hospital Emergency Room. This state-of-the-art MRI system, which is part of the Siemens/University of Virginia collaborative research and development program, will have special features for neurological and cardiovascular investigations, such as easy access for acute hospital-based patients and a separate elevator for animal studies.