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Equipment

This section describes equipment that are available for the users at AMI Centre.

General description of system

MRI Scanner

Signa VH/i 3.0T with HDxt upgrade (GE Healtcare Ltd., Chalfont St Giles, UK)

Magnet

3T94, long bore

Software

Version E2.0_0502b on Linux platform

Gradients

Maximum gradient strength: 40 mT/m. Maximum gradient slew rate: 150 T/(m*s).

Proton Larmor frequency

127.7774 MHz

RF coils

  • Body quadrature, transmitting and receiving (General Electric, WI)
  • 8-channel Head Coil, receive only (MRI Devices Corporation, FL)
  • 16-channel Head Coil, receive only (MR Instruments Inc., MN)
  • Head quadrature, transmitting and receiving (General Electric, WI)
  • Extremity quadrature, transmitting and receiving (IGC-Medical Advances, Inc., WI)
  • 4-channel CTL array coil, receiving (USA Instruments, Inc., OH)
  • GP Flex, receiving (General Electric, WI)

Special options

ASSET (parallel imaging)
Proton spectroscopy (single voxel, chemical shift imaging)
SAGE 7.4 for spectroscopy analysis
BrainWaveRT (real-time fMRI acquisition)
BrainWavePA (real-time fMRI post-processing)
Diffusion tensor imaging (imaging sequence and analysis software in Functool)

Workstation

Advantage Workstation 4.0_05 (GE) for viewing MR images, located in MRI unit
Special software packages: Functool 2.2.49

Injection system

Medrad Spectris MR injector