MRI

The SAIL MRI lab is equipped with a Bruker BioSpec 70/30 MRI imaging system. This is a 7 T multinuclear MRI system with a 30 cm bore, designed for rabbits, rats and mice imaging. With the maximum gradient strength of 450 mT/m, this system provides high spatial resolution images of live animals or of tissue samples. The system is equipped with 4 RF channel receivers accommodating array coils. The system includes multiple options for specialized applications such as cardiac MRI, functional MRI, dynamic contrast enhanced MRI, diffusion weighted/tensor MRI, ultra-short TE and Zero TE MRI for preclinical and molecular MR imaging. This Bruker 7T is equipped with Animal Monitoring System for the display and analysis of physiological signals during animal scanning and for the synchronization of MR acquisitions by using ECG or respiration triggering signals