ClinScan s-line - Technical Description

Superconducting Magnet System

  • Actively-shielded superconducting wide-bore magnet
  • Nitrogen free (no cryogenic maintenance by customer)
  • Cryo-refrigerator (Minimal helium consumption, long hold-times, long maintenance intervals)
  • Reduced stray field
  • No Faraday cage required
  • Screening against external field perturbations
  • AutoPac animal handling system including RF shielding
  • Field strength: 7 T
  • Diameter of clear bore: > 200 mm
  • Stray-field (5 Gauss): +/- 1.45 m axial, +/- 1.4 m radial
  • Passive RT shim system
  • Vibration damping (absorber)
     

Gradient system with RT-shim and related power supplies

  • Actively shielded gradients
  • Integrated shim set up to 2nd order
  • Outer / inner diameter: 198 mm / 114 mm
  • Gradient amplitude: 630 mT/m
  • Slew rate: 6300 T/m/s
  • Linearity 80 / 50 mm DSV: < ± 4.5% / < ± 1.0%
  • Water cooled

MR software

The ClinScan runs the software syngo® MR 2006T

  • Clinically oriented routine workflow
  • Parallel scanning and reconstruction
  • The drag&drop functionality is fully supported
  • iPAT (integrated Parallel Acquisition Techniques) in one dimension
  • Dynamic Analysis evaluation software

Electronics

  • MAGNETOM Avanto digital radio frequency system
  • The digital signal processing system operates at 1H resonance frequency of 300 MHz and utilizes digital filtering, digital quadrature demodulation as well as digital controls for RF amplitude stabilization for superior resolution and image quality
  • Multi nuclei option
  • Receiver bandwidth: 1 MHz
  • Digital receive channels: 8 (16, 32 optional)
  • 1H RF amplifier: 1400 W pulse power
  • Host computer with dual processor Pentium XEON™ CPU
  • High performance image processor with dual processor (2x AMD Opteron)
  • High resolution color LCD flat screen monitor