Ultra-High Field

Bruker BioSpin is offering up to 17.6 T horizontal MRI systems, enabling high resolution in vivo preclinical MRI on small animals at a microscopic scale. The magnet is based on Bruker’s UltraStabilized™ subcooling technology and operates at a temperature of 2 Kelvin delivering excellent homogeneity and stability.

The large magnet bore size of 25 cm permits the integration of a BGA-S™ gradient system with unsurpassed specifications of 1000 mT/m gradient amplitude and 15.000 T/m/s slew rate. Additional cooling provides the very high duty cycle specifications required for high-performance MRI applications. This allows functional MRI (fMRI) applications at ultra high magnetic fields that strongly benefit from their linear increase in sensitivity.

These innovations will push the current limits of animal MR imaging towards higher spatial and spectral resolution and resulting in improved sensitivity, enabling new applications for molecular imaging and preclinical research.