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New Siemens Avanto 1.5T and Verio 3T scanners are currently being installed. Current equipment: Siemens Trio 3.0 Tesla This powerful scanner was installed in 2002 after a generous donation from the Simon Spies Foundation. More information here. Varian Inova 4.7 Tesla This highly flexible experimental scanner is used for animal and "in vitro" work. The system has undergone a number of upgrades and is fully up-to-date. Parallel capabilities are installed ultimo 2009. A wide range of special coils and sequences have been developed over the years. Oxford HyperSense hyperpolarisation unit A generous donation from the Simon Spies Foundation. The department as a research agreement with GE Healthcare and does in vivo studies of metabolism using hyperpolarised 13C-labelled pyruvate, for example. EEG, neuronavigation, TMS Excellent facilities for advanced neuroimaging studies. Animal laboratory The department has good facilities and skillful staff. Computer laboratory The analysis of MR images is very computer intensive and is invariably performed using a cluster of fast Linux machines and Windows computers.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 12 February 2010 )
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