Magnetic Resonance Research Facility

Equipment - Research Dedicated Siemens 3T Scanner

Availability

• Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 6:00pm
• After-hours and weekend time is available as requested with advance notice, preferably two weeks.
• Current scanner rate: $600/hour, scheduled in half-hour increments.

Specialized Sequences

• Total Imaging Matrix (TIM) Receiver Technology
• Gradient Coils Strength of 45 mT/ m and a Maximum Slew Rate of 200 T/m/s
• Advanced 3D (3D DESS, 3D CISS)
• Advanced Turbo (True FISP, HASTE, Hyperecho HASTE)
• Advanced Angiographic Imaging (Contrast Enhanced Protocols, Phase Contrast, 3D VIBE)
• CARE Bolus Imaging
• Echo Planar Imaging
• Neuro Perfusion
• Bold Imaging and Advanced Functional (3D PACE)
• Single Voxel Spectroscopy
• Chemical Shift Imaging (Spin-echo, STEAM)
• EPSI
• PEPSI
• Arterial Spin Labeling
• Advanced Cardiac Imaging Package
• High Angular Diffusion Tensor Imaging
• T1rho (T_1Ρ)

Coils

• 12-Channel Head Array
• 8-Channel Body Array
• 12-Channel Spine Array
• Wrist Coil
• Extremity Coil
• CP Head
• 1-Inch Small Loop Coil
• Endorectal Coil
• Dual Tuned Rapid MRI proton/phosphorus Coil

Functional FMRI Equipment

• Avotec Silent Scan
• Avotec RE-5701 Real Eye Tracker
• 3500 Lumen DLP Projector - Panasonic D3500U
• DA-LITE Rear-Projection Screen
• Stimulus Computer with Eprime, Presentation, Matlab & CD/DVD capabilities
• Serial Response Box
• Fiber Optic Manipulandum - Left and Right Hand
• Optical to TTL Converter

Other Equipment:

• JD-Medical Small Animal Anesthesia Machine (VT-110-MRI)
• Metrasens FerroGuard Metal Detector
• BIOPAC Physiological Monitoring System - Including Photoplethysmograph (PPG), Respiratory, Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), Pulse oximeter, air flow and expired gas analysis.
• MediGoggles interchangeable prescriptive glasses (range from -6 to +6 diopter in 0.5 diopter increments)
• FOMRI II Dual Channel MRI Microphone System