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• Cryo-cooled, actively shielded, zero-boil-off magnet
• Field strength: 9.4T
• Resonance frequencies: H: 400MHz
• Bore diameter: 20cm
• Field homogeneity DSV: 120mm
• Field homogeneity peak-peak: 10ppm

The facility has two sets of gradients, depending on the application:

1. The standard High Power Gradient system:

• High Power Gradient System with wide bore

Inner diameter: 114mm

Max. Gradient strength: 660 mT/m

Max linear slew rate: 4570 T/m/s

2. An additional Micro Imaging Gradient insert can be chosen. This system provides substantially higher gradient power, with the draw-back of a smaller inner diameter, making it especially suitable for micro-imaging applications and physiological measurements requiring high gradient strength, such as diffusion imaging.

• High Power Gradient Insert for Micro-Imaging

Inner diameter: 60mm

Max. Gradient strength: 1000 mT/m

Max linear slew rate: 11250 T/m/s

Transmitter Channels: 2x1kW

Receiver Channels:  1 Broadband channel (capable for H and X-nuclei),  8 parallel proton-receiver channels.

The scanner software is based on the Bruker TopSpin package which also controls most Bruker NMR scanners for chemical applications. On this platform, the ParaVision 5.1 software package supports all imaging applications.

The software available at BRIL includes the following special application and data evaluation packages:

• Spectroscopy Package
• Diffusion Tensor Imaging Package
• SWI Package
• Spiral Imaging Package
• Intragated Cardiac Imaging Package
• Ultrashort Echotime Imaging (UTE)

 Apart from the standard image acquisition packages, in-house built pulse sequences can be implemented or imported from other Bruker scanners for special applications. Currently, BRIL provides in-house MRI pulse sequences for Oscillating gradient diffusion imaging applications and CEST imaging.

Cryo-cooled RF coils

The facility is equipped with a 20mm Cryo-probe which can be installed for certain mouse and sample experiments to provide very high SNR for high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy studies. 

Standard RF-coils

The facility has a variety of coils available to suit a wide range of proton imaging and spectroscopy applications. The currently available proton coils are listed below:

The facility has a variety of coils for non-proton imaging and double resonant 1H/x-nucleus imaging and spectroscopy. The supported nuclei can be found in the list below:

 

The facility is located inside a fully equipped PC2 animal laboratory, capable of handling animals and samples requiring this containment. The following list gives an overview over the available equipment:

• Automatic sample/animal positioning system
• Animal beds for both rats and mice
• Animal bed heating facility + additional heating blankets
• Built-in isofluorane gas anaesthesia station
• Animal Monitoring unit:
  • Breathing monitor/triggering
  • Temperature monitor
  • ECG monitoring/triggering