The 14.1 Tesla (600 MHz proton frequency) MRI scanner consists of a 13 cm diameter horizontal bore magnet (Magnex Scientific) interfaced to a Bruker Avance Neo console with ParaVision 360 operating software. The system is capable of multinuclear MR imaging and spectroscopy of small animals (mice) and is equipped with 8 receive channels allowing for the use of phased array receive coils. Capabilities include high-quality, high resolution, anatomical and functional imaging using a wide variety of contrast mechanisms (T1, T2, diffusion, perfusion), together with multi-shot 2D and 3D sequences, single-shot EPI, pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (pCASL) perfusion imaging, Ultrashort Echo Time (UTE) sequences, localized NMR spectroscopy and spectroscopic imaging.
Gradient Coils:
- 60 mm i.d. Resonance Research gradient coil (BFG 102/60-S12B) insert capable of 1000 mT/m
- 72 mm i.d. Resonance Research gradient coil (BFG 127/72-S6B) insert capable of 950 mT/m
A range of RF transmit/receive volume coils with different inner diameters as well as surface transmit-receive coils are available for use.
Volume Transmit-Receive Coils
- 35 mm i.d. transmit/receive quadrature bird-cage coil (Bruker Biospin, RF RES 600 1H 059/035 QSN TR)
- 40 mm i.d. transmit/receive quadrature bird-cage coil (Bruker Biospin, RF RES 600 1H 059/040 R.HEAD QSN TR)
Transmit-Receive Surface Loop Coils
- variety of different size home-built surface transmit-receive coils
Physiological Monitoring Equipment (SA Instruments, Inc):
- Cardiac gating
- Respiratory gating
- Thermal regulation
