Lab Equipment

Superconducting Magnet System

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7T horizontal superconducting magnet, Pharmascan 70/16 AS, Bruker Biospin MRI GmpH

• Magnetic screening: active
• Field-strength: 7.0 T (300.3 MHz for 1H)
• Distance front flange to ISO-center: 506 mm
• Liquid Helium hold-time: > 100 days
• Liquid Nitrogen hold-time: > 14 days

Actively shielded gradient system BGA-9A HP with a full set of 2nd order shims

• Inner diameter 90 mm
• Gradient strength: 760 mT/m at 200 A
• Max. linear slew rate: 6840 T/m/s
• Duty cycle, max simultaneous DC current: 3x46 A

Spectrometer Electronics

Avance III Electronics

• Automatic hardware recognition system for basic system components like amplifiers and RF coils.
• RF Preamplifiers for Protons
  • 1H low noise preamplifier including T/R switch
  • Active detuning device
• RF quadrature combiner
• RF tune/match adapter
• RF interface adapter for operation of home-built or 3rd party RF coils

Gradient electronics

• High-power gradient amplifier: 300 V / 200 A
• Gradient chiller system
• Shim interface
• Shim amplifier (6 channels, max current 5A)

RF electronics

• 1H RF amplifer for proton MRI/MRS excitation, 300 W
• Broadband receiver with integrated AD converter
• Digital multi-receiver channel system

RF Resonators

Mouse head linear volume resonator

• No tune/no match, optimized for mouse brain loadings
• Bruker Biospin MRI HmpH, item: Bio PRK 300, RES 089/023, Model No: 1 P T8119, Max peak power: 400 W, Max average power: 10 W

Rat head/Mouse body linear volume resonator

• No tune/no match, optimized for rat brain or mouse whole-body loadings
• Bruker Biospin MRI HmpH, item: Bio PRK 300 EPI, RES 089/038, Model No: 1 P T8121, Max peak power: 400 W, Max average power: 40 W

Rat body linear volume resonator (not functional at the moment)

• No tune/no match, optimized for rat whole-body loadings
• Bruker Biospin MRI HmpH, item: Bio PRK 300, 1H 089/060, Model No: 1 P T8123, Peak power 1H: 400 W, 5 ms, Mean power 1H: 3 W

Workstation and Peripherals

Bruker desktop MR-workstation

• 8GB RAM, 1000 GB hard disk
• running CentOS Linux operating system

Additional workstation for external data processing (located in the MIC analysis room on the 6th floor of BBB)

• 4GB RAM, 500GB hard disk
• running CentOS Linux operating system

Color monitor 24"
Printer

Software

• ParaVision 5.1 Basic Package
• ParaVision Extension Package
  • Ultrafast Imaging Package (EPI sequences)
  • Angiography Package (2D inflow, Phase Contrast)
  • Ultra short TE (UTE) Package
  • Image Algebra and Fit Package
  • 3D Image Processing Package
• Paravision Spectroscopy Package
• Paravision Data Manager
• Paravision Diffusion Tensor Imaging Package
• Intragate (for retrospectively triggered cardiac imaging)

Animal Monitoring and Handling Equipment

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• Animal bed for mouse brain applications (to be used with the 23 mm resonator)
• Animal bed for mouse whole-body applications (to be used with the 38 mm resonator)
• Animal bed for rat brain applications (to be used with the 38 mm resonator)
• Animal bed for rat whole-body applications (to be used with the 60 mm resonator)
• BioTrig Life Monitoring System: System for display and analysis of physiological signals during animal examinations. Developed for the synchronization of MR acquisitions by using ECG or respiration triggering signals.
  • MRI compatible temperature probe from SA Instruments
  • Pressure sensor for respiration monitoring and triggering from SA Instruments
  • ECG electrodes for cardiac triggering from SA Instruments
  • Animal heating blankets with recirculating warm water

• Manual describing the operation of the Animal Monitoring and Handling Equipment pdf

Other Equipment

• Syringe Pump (Harvard Programable PHD 2000)
• Manual describing the operation of the syringe pump pdf