Opening of Max-Delbrück-Centrum, Berlin, Germany

Installation of 9.4T BioSpec USR System

: BioSpec 9.4 T at the Max-Delbrück-Centrum, Berlin

The new research center for high field magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy at the Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC) and Charité, was officially opened in January by the German Federal Minister of Research. The new core imaging centre now includes a Bruker BioSpec 9.4 T high field preclinical imaging system and a Siemens 7 T MRI whole body system, enabling ground-breaking molecular medicine and translational research.

Bruker’s preclinical 9.4 T scanner will deliver new insights into small anatomical structures down to the cellular level. This will empower the investigation of metabolic processes and help identify health risks and disease processes at a very early stage.

The main research goal at the MDC is to investigate the molecular mechanisms that initiate cardiac diseases, metabolic disorders, cancers and neurodegenerative diseases. The findings will establish new procedures in diagnostics and therapy.

It was therefore essential to this preclinical research that self-gated cardiac imaging on mice and rats at high spatial and high temporal resolution was readily available. Thanks to a very swift and uncomplicated installation the first cardiac movies were immediately acquired, already demonstrating excellent contrast and optimum system stability.

: CINE cardiac MRI of mouse heart . Courtesy Max-Delbrück-Centrum, Berlin, Germany