Access to Innovative Technologies --Medical Imaging (WP9)

• HIGH-FIELD MRI

• PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING

High Field MRI

Facility Nr. 48
Center of Excellence for High-field MR, Medical University of Vienna, Lazarettgasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
www.meduniwien.ac.at/hochfeld-mr

Contact: siegfried.trattnig@meduniwien.ac.at

Offered Technology(ies)
MRI 3 T
MRI: 7 T
Clinical research methods and practices
Intra-operative Navigation

Available Resources
Technical assistance to run instrument
Methodological setup (e.g. design of study protocol and standard operator procedures) 
Clinical trial insurance contracting   
Data processing and analysis

Facility Nr. 49
Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Brenneckestr. 6, 39118 Magdeburg;
www.lin-magdeburg.de
&
Otto-von-GuerickeUniversity, Dept. Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Leipziger Str. 44, 39120 Magdeburg
www.bmmr.ovgu.de/

Contact: oliver.speck@ovgu.de & andre.brechmann@lin-magdeburg.de

Offered Technology(ies)

MRI: 7 T

Technical Details: Whole-body human scanner; up to 32-channel head coil; fMRI stimulation hardware (visual, acoustic, feedback, eye-tracking); 8-channel parallel transmit array; High performance gradient system

Available Resources
Instruments
Technical assistance to run instrument
Methodological setup (e.g. design of study protocol and standard operator procedures)
Server space

Facility Nr. 50
Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, University Duisburg-Essen (D) and Radboud University Nijmegen (NL), Arendahls Wiese 199, D-45141 Essen, Germany
www.hahn-institute.de

Contact: Oliver.Kraff@uni-duisburg-essen.de

Offered Technology(ies)
MRI: 7 T

Technical details: Whole-body human scanner; 32-channel head coil; fMRI stimulation hardware; 8-channel parallel transmit array; Self-built RF coils including body arrays

Available Resources
Instruments
Technical assistance to run instrument
Methodological setup (e.g. design of study protocol and standard operator procedures)
Training in infrastructure use
Server space
Data processing and analysis
Training seminar room

Facility Nr. 51
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, MRC Department, Spemannstrasse 41, 72076 Tübingen
www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/de/forschung/abt/ks.html

Contact:klaus.scheffler@tuebingen.mpg.de

Offered Technology(ies)
MRI: 9.4 T

Technical details: Human scanner, head only (or knee); Head gradient insert 70mT/SR 300; 16 ch Tx/32 ch Rx 1H RF coil; 23Na coil

Available Resources
Instruments
Technical assistance to run instrument
Methodological setup (e.g. design of study protocol and standard operator procedures)  Server Space  
Housing facilities

Facility Nr. 52
SPMMRC, University of Nottingham; Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre; School of Physics and Astronomy; The University of Nottingham; University Park; Nottingham NG7 2RD
www.magres.nottingham.ac.uk

Contact:academics@magres.nottingham.ac.uk

Offered Technology(ies)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) 1,5 T
MRI 3 T
MRI: 7 T
Magnetoencephalography (MEG)

Available Resources
Instruments
Technical assistance to run instrument
Methodological setup (e.g. design of study protocol and standard operator procedures)      Regulatory affairs management service
Training in infrastructure use
Probe preparation
Wet lab space
Server Space
Data processing and analysis
Training seminar room 
fMRI stimulation kit

Facility Nr. 56

Department of Physics, CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Imago7 Foundation; University of Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, 56127 PISA Italy
http://www.df.unipi.it/

Institute of Clinical Physiology; Via Moruzzi, 1, 56124 PISA – Italy

Fondazione Imago7, Viale del Tirreno 331, Calambrone (PI) ITALY
http://www.imago7.eu/

Contact:Professor Alberto Del Guerra; alberto.delguerra@df.unipi.it

Offered Technology(ies)
MRI: 7 T

Available resources
Technical assistance to run instrument
Training in infrastructure use
Training seminar room
Data processing and analysis

  Phase Contrast Imaging

Facility Nr. 53
Technical University of Munich, Chair of Biomedical Physics;Department of Physics (E17); James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
http://www.e17.ph.tum.de/

Contact:franz.pfeiffer@ph.tum.de; thomas.hendel@med.uni-muenchen.de

Offered Technology(ies)

Phase-Contrast Imaging (X-ray based)

Technical details: X-Ray Phase-Contrast CT Scanner; Grating based Phase-Contrast Imaging; Tomograhpy & Radiography; Small animal set-up; Field-of-View: 4 cm round; keV range up to 50 kVp; see Tapfer et al.; Med. Phys. 2011 (in press 09/2011)

Available Resources
Instruments
Technical assistance to run instrument
Training in infrastructure use
Data processing and analysis