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Preclinical Research Imaging Laboratory (PIRL)

MRI Services

Equipment

The main magnet room houses a 7.0 tesla horizontal 20 centimeter bore magnet interfaced with a Bruker spectrometer/imager running Paravision 2.1. The magnet itself is equipped with microimaging gradients and is housed within a room-size copper Faraday cage. A number of coils are available for applications including 72 mm, 30 mm and 22 mm proton resonator coils, 20 mm and 15 mm proton microimaging coils, 50 mm and 30 mm double tuned proton/phosphorus resonator coils, double tuned proton/phosphorus surface coils, as well as single tuned proton, phosphorus, carbon and fluorine surface coils.

Physical Parameters:
Field Strength 7T = 300MHz
Gradients Max 10 mT/Meter, 12cm clear bore
Volume Coil Diameter 7cm, 3cm
Various Surface Coils, 31P, 1H, 19F, 23Na
Drift 8Hz/day

Types of Acquisitions:
In-Vivo Localizes Spectroscopy, 1H and 31P
Diffusion Imaging
Spin Labeled Perfusion Imaging
PD, T1, T2 Imaging
3D RARE Imaging
Gated Imaging, Spectroscopy

Calculated Images:
Apparent Diffusion Coefficient
Volumetric Measurements of Lesions
Calculation of Perfusion/Diffusion Mismatch volume

Post Processing:
NMR Suite (Bruker)
LC-Model