PharmaScan
Bruker’s PharmaScan® MRI ultra-shielded technology provides greatest physical stability for perfect results, combined with the most calculable running costs for predictable long-term financial planning.
Lowest Running Costs
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Lowest Running Costs
Extremely consistent low running costs
Secure Investment
Low total cost of ownership (TCO) resulting from small footprint, ease of installation, and low acquisition costs
Greatest Physical Stability
Maximal physical stability provided by the unique magnet design
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- Unique Ultra Shielded technology, requiring no cold head, for greatest physical stability imperative in motion-sensitive studies, such as fMRI
- Compact instrument with no Faraday cage necessary for low site requirements and costs
- Accurate animal positioning with the motorized animal handling system for increased throughput
- Full second order and z3 high power shim channels guarantee optimal performance for spectroscopy and MRI
- Complete RF coil portfolio for mice and rats available, including coils for head, brain, cardiac, body, optogenetics, multi-channel array coils with up to 8 channels, and x-nuclei
- MRI CryoProbes with 2 element, 4 element, or as 13C for mice delivering an exceptional increase in sensitivity
- In-house development and production of all key components (software, magnet, gradient, spectrometer, RF-coils) ensures the best performance and short repair times
T2-Weighted Rat Brain Imaging
T2-weighted RARE using a SPIO contrast agent for exceptional contrast in rat brain.
Rat Brain Susceptibility Weighted Imaging
Smallest vessels are visualized in Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (SWI)
T2-Weighted Imaging of Mouse Spine
Excellent tissue contrast and visualization of the internal anatomy of the mouse cervical spinal cord with (75 x 75) µm² in plane resolution. Acquisition details: RARE, TR: 2500 ms, TE: 22 ms, resolution: (75 × 75) µm², slice thickness: 0.7 mm, coil setup: mouse head quadrature resonator
Magnet
| Field strength: | 7 Tesla |
| Bore diameter: | 16 cm |
| Homogeneity (cylinder 6 cm x 6 cm): | ± 10 ppm |
| Magnet technology | Ultra Shielded (US) superconducting magnet requiring no cold head, for greatest physical stability and lowest running costs |
Gradients
| Gradient inner diameter: |
90 mm |
| Gradient strength: |
570 mT/m (760 mT/m with high power option) |
| Slew rate: | 5130 T/m/s (6840 T/m/s with high power option) |
| Actively shielded gradient system | |
| Integrated shim coils for optimal field homogeneity |
ParaVision
- Intuitive software package, for multi-dimensional MRI/MRS data acquisition, visualization, reconstruction, and analysis
- Over 100 validated and ready to use in vivo protocols and scan programs for mice and rats
- MRI sequence portfolio of more than 1,000 sequence variations, including wireless cardiac imaging using navigator based IntraGate methods with cartesian or radial readout, as well as short echo time imaging, such as UTE and ZTE
- In-house development and production of all key components (software, magnet, gradient, spectrometer, RF-coils) ensures the best performance and short repair times
Support
LabScape
Service & Life Cycle Support for Magnetic Resonance and Preclinical Imaging
Bruker’s commitment to provide customers with unparalleled help throughout the buying cycle, from initial inquiry to evaluation, installation, and the lifetime of the instrument is now characterized by the LabScape service concept.
LabScape Maintenance Agreements, On-Site On-Demand and Enhance Your Lab are designed to offer a new approach to maintenance and service for the modern laboratory
