Small Animal MRI


Contact: Dr. rer. nat. Alireza Abaei ✉

The Core facility Small Animal Imaging operates an ultrahigh field 11.7T MR imaging and spectroscopy system by Bruker (BioSpec 117/16) equipped with high-sensitive cryogenically cooled receive coils and multi-channel capability. It provides technology for neurological, abdominal and thoracic imaging in mice, rats and tissue samples. The means for physiological gating enables high-quality quantification of cardiac and other functional parameters. Advanced rapid MR spectroscopy (MRS) facilitates the study of a multitude of metabolic processes. 

Core Facility Small Animal Imaging

 

Objectives:

  • To investigate high-field functional cardiac imaging
  • To investigate high-field ultrashort echo time (UTE) imaging
  • To provide support for non-thoracic imaging and spectroscopy

 

High Resolution Cardiac Imaging
Short-axis view
Long axis: 2-chamber view
Long axis: 4-chamber view

   

High Resolution Lung Imaging
Double-oblique view
Double-oblique view showing the aorta
Sagittal view

   

High-Resolution Neuro Anatomy
Mouse brain view obtained with a cryogenic brain coil
High-Resolution Fast Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)
Fiber tracking (FT) results for seed points in the genu and along the corpus callosum, near the lateral septal nucleus and in the olfactory path of a mouse