MRI Upgrade Program

Join the AVANCE Track & Keep your MRI on Track

Your research depends on the scientific advances that you make with your MRI instrument. You need an instrument that you can rely on to perform from day to day and well into the future. Take your instrument and your career to the next level by accessing cutting edge technologies. Ensure that your instrument is prepared for tomorrow's explorations. Most importantly, protect this highly valuable investment, which keeps you in the pole position when attractive interests arise.

Maintain the viability and sustain the lifetime of your instrument with an upgrade of your Bruker or other manufacture instrument.

The Right Upgrade Option for You

Joining the AVANCE Track is fast and simple. Existing Bruker customers will appreciate the streamlined procedure that expedites the upgrade process, while owners of MRI instruments from other vendors, such as Agilent, will value the individual attention to their particular needs.

For Owners of Other Vendor Instruments

For owners of other vendor instruments, the upgrade process starts with an onsite survey by a skilled engineer, who will analyze the current configuration of your instrument. Based on this information, upgrade alternatives that suit your instrument are provided and you have the flexibility to define the elements of your AVANCE track that meet your scientific and budget requirements, since potential options are clear and transparent. Once you have specified your configuration, service engineers will implement the conversion, letting you unleash the power of your rejuvenated instrument.

For Existing Bruker Customers

Existing Bruker customers have the possibility to maintain state-of-the-art technology by upgrading to AVANCE NEO electronics with ParaVision 360 software. According to the current instrument configuration, individual upgrade options containing components such as shim, gradient, and AVANCE NEO console upgrades are delineated. This makes the step to AVANCE NEO and ParaVision 360 and the corresponding transformation to the software and hardware platform of the future a fast and easy procedure.

Highlights

Maximize the performance of your instrument with the latest innovations of AVANCE NEO electronics and ParaVision 360 software combined with optimal RF coil technology
Profit from most efficient workflows beginning with the hardware set-up and continuing through scanning to quantification and data management
Ensure that your instrument is prepared for the future by securing access to progressive developments, Bruker's scientific support, and an all-important magnet or complete maintenance program to protect your most valuable investment

¹PET/MR instruments only
²BioSpec 3T and PET/MR Inline instruments only

Increased Performance

An Unsurpassed Foundation

Maximum performance gradient and shim coils combined with AVANCE NEO electronics form the most powerful basis for your MRI instrument
High power shim amplifiers minimize artifacts in extremely shim sensitive sequences such as TrueFSIP and maximize quality in EPI
Leading duty cycle performance high power gradients for conduction of highly demanding sequences such as fMRI or first pass tracer uptake in the heart
AVANCE NEO electronics allow gradient resolutions of 1 μs, and enable faster real time decisions than ever
Flexible configuration of up 24 transmit and 16 receive channels ensures scalability for future applications

Largest Preclinical Coil Portfolio

MRI CryoProbes for SNR boost allowing for up to 6 times faster measurements and/or increased resolution
Specialized coils, such as ASL- and optogenetic coils
Parallel Transmit coils with up to 8 channels
Phased array coils with up to 16 channels
Full range of classic room-temperature ¹H- and X-nuclei coils

ParaVision 360’s Leading Methods

All common spin- and gradient echo and spectroscopy methods
All standard, EPI and short echo imaging methods, such as DTI-spiral, UTE, and T1 EPI, for diffusion, perfusion, fMRI, flow imaging, and relaxometry
Unique IntraGate based FLASH and UTE methods for self-gated wireless cardiac and respiratory imaging
Fat chemical shift artifact-corrected RARE images

Arterial Spin Labeling Examination Guide
Courtesy: E. Barbier, L. Hirschler, J. Warnking, Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience
The CASL Workflow Package was developed in cooperation with Emmanuel Barbier, Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience

Simplified and Expediated Workflows

Expediated Set-ups

Combinations of up to 4 RF coils simultaneously with active detuning
Full automatic hardware recognition of RF coils and gradient and shim coils for software-controlled peak power limits

Efficient Scanning

Ready-to use, in vivo, pre-optimized protocols and scan programs guarantee best results from day one
Maximal data consistency with ASL examination guide, which significantly reduces user bias
Full heart cardiac assessment faster than ever before with IntraGateUTE
ParaVision 360 software's ease of use of a clinical software combined with Bruker's open sequence programming framework

Expansive Reconstruction and Analysis

Fast and accurate post-processing with 2D and 3D image co-registration for PET and/or MRI data, fused images, image analysis with profiles, histograms, and real-time update of ROI values
Image time course analysis and multi-parametric fitting, surface and volume rendering, and image stitching
Professional and customizable data reports containing all scan parameters
Database with a hierarchical sorting function as well as a free text search

AVANCE Track - MRI Upgrade Brochure for free Download

AVANCE Track - MRI Upgrade Program Brochure 2.6 MB

Due to the short echo time and radial readout of UTE, self-gated IntraGateUTE demonstrates reduced flow and motion artifacts in mouse at 9.4 T as opposed to IntraGateFLASH even when accelerated
Acquisition details: TE: 0.4/1.5 ms (IgUTE/IgFLASH), TR: 9 ms, Resolution: (98 ×98) µm², slice thickness: 800 µm, cine frames: 14

A Protected Investment

An Instrument Prepared for the Future

New age AVANCE NEO electronics guarantee access to software upgrades including future methods, sequences, and modules
Access to PET/MR instruments

Continuous Support

On-site and in-house trainings and webinars
Free email and phone hotlines

A Secured Investment

LabScape maintenance agreements with quality procedures
LabScape Comprehensive covering all technical issues up to and including full system replacement

MRI CryoProbe leads to average SNR increase of factor 2.8 at 9.4 T in mouse brain as opposed to room-temperature mouse brain coil
Acquisition details: FLASH, resolution: (78 x 78 x 500) µm³, TR: 400 ms, TE: 3.8 ms, total time: 3 min. 24 s

Fat-water separation imaging in RARE leads to fat chemical shifted corrected images in mouse at 7 T
Acquisition details: TE: 24 ms, TR: 350 ms, Resolution: (208 x 188) µm², Slice thickness: 1 mm, TA: > 1 m 7 s resp. trig. per slice