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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Core Facility

Specifications:

Magnet: 7T

  • Bruker 730 (7 Tesla, 30cm) USR horizontal-bore magnet

Magnetic Field Gradient Sets:

  • Mouse (9.5 mT/m/A; ~30-50 m resolution)

  • Rat (2 mT/m/A; ~70-200 mm resolution)

  • Rabbit-sized animals (1 mT/m/A; ~200-300 m resolution)

Radiofrequency (RF) Probes:

  • Volume coils: (15 - 152 mm diameter)

  • Surface Coils:

    • Mouse and rat head coils

    • 31P and 13C coils for metabolite assessment

    • Hydrogen (¹H) birdcage multi-rung imaging probes

    • Double-tuned ¹H/phosphorous (31P) imaging/spectroscopy probe

    • Double-tuned ¹H/carbon 13 (13C) imaging/spectroscopy probe

    • Mouse and rat brain ¹H actively decoupled surface coils

 

Magnet: 11.7T

  • Bruker AVANCE II 500 WB (11.7 Tesla, 8.9cm) USR vertical wide-bore magnet

Micro Imaging

  • S40 – gradient set

RF coils

  • 1H, 31P x 1H, 13C-H,13C-scoil

High Res.

  • 3mm HCN/xyz gradient

  • 5mm HCN/xyz gradient

Receivers

  • 4 x broadband

  • 1 x proton

 

 

 

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