Preclinical MRI

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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Highlights

Lowest Running Costs
Extremely consistent low running costs
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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    

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

ParaVision® 360:  

  • 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