Lab Equipment
Superconducting Magnet System
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
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Mouse head quadrature volume resonator
- No tune/no match, optimized for mouse brain loadings
- Transmit/receive capabilities
- Outer/inner diameter = 55mm/23mm
- Bruker Biospin MRI HmpH, Model No: MT0206.
Rat head/Mouse body quadrature volume resonator
- No tune/no match, optimized for rat brain or mouse whole-body loadings
- Transmit/receive capabilities
- Outer/inner diameter = 75mm/40mm
- Bruker Biospin MRI HmpH, Model No: MT0205.
Rat body quadrature volume resonator
- No tune/no match, optimized for rat whole-body loadings
- Transmit/receive capabilities
- Outer/inner diameter = 89mm/69mm
- Bruker Biospin MRI HmpH, Model No: MT0013.
Rat Brain Array Coil
- 4 element rat brain surface coil
- 1H, 2x2 coil element topology
- Receive-only capabilities
- Bruker Biospin MRI HmpH, Model No: MT0044-01.
Mouse Array Coil
- 4 element mouse brain surface coil
- 1H, 2x2 coil element topology
- Receive-only capabilities
- Bruker Biospin MRI HmpH, Model No: MT0045-01.
Planar Surface Coils, 10mm, 20mm and 30mm
- No tune/no match flexible end
- 1H, to be used in combination with a local preamplifier
- Receive-only capabilities
- Bruker Biospin MRI HmpH, Model No: MT0105-10, -20, -30
Transmit-only Volume Coil for Mice and Rats - 72 mm
- Transmit-only coil capabilities, to be used in combination with receive-only coils
- Active coil decoupling in cross-coil setups
- 1H, circularly polarized
- Outer/inner diameter = 89mm/72mm
- For rodents up to 450 g body weight
- Bruker Biospin MRI HmpH, Model No: MT0380.
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
Animal Beds
- Animal bed for mouse brain/head/body applications
- Bed tip for mouse brain applications (to be used with the mouse brain phased-array coil)
- Bed tip for mouse head applications (to be used with the mouse head quadrature volume coil)
- Bed tip for mouse whole-body applications (to be used with the mouse body quadrature volume coil)
- Animal bed for rat brain/head applications
- Bed tip for rat brain applications (to be used with the rat brain phased-array coil)
- Bed tip for rat head applications (to be used with the rat head/mouse body quadrature volume coil)
- Animal bed for rat body applications
- Bed tip for rat whole-body applications (to be used with the rat body quadrature volume coil)
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