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 B-GA P09 with z² shim and B₀ compensation coil
  • Gradient strength: 300 mT/m at 100 A
  • Rise time to Gmax: > 80μs at 150 V
  • High-power gradient amplifier: 150 V / 100 A
  • Shim power supply for z² shim
  • Gradient chiller system

Spectrometer Electronics

• RF Electronics
  • Avance AV electronics
  • Digital single channel frequency synthesizer
  • RF modulators for one channel
  • RF amplifer for 1H/19F nuclei, 300 W
  • Digital receiver channel system
  • HADC/2 16 bit, 2 MHz sample rate (1 MHz bandwidth)
  • Shim interface
• Acquisition and digital control system
  • Communication control unit (CCU)
  • Timing control unit (TCU)
  • Frequency control unit for one channel (FCU)
  • Gradient control unit (GCU)
  • Gradient interface with preemphasis (BGU)

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

Computer

• Bruker desktop MR-workstation, running Linux
• Two 20" TFT monitors
• Printer

Software

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• 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