Project Grant 1920345

This $2,000,000 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351 - Research Infrastructure Programs) will fund the acquisition of a next-generation Siemens 7 Tesla (7T) whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. This new 7T MRI system will replace the research center's existing 22-year-old prototype 7T scanner, providing...

This $6,000,000 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will support the acquisition of a new high-performance animal MRI scanner and associated equipment for the University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute (KUMCRI). The upgraded MRI system will provide advanced imaging capabilities to support biomedical research across multiple NIH-funded investigators and research centers at the University of Kansas...

This $2,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA #93.351) will enable Yale University to acquire a state-of-the-art 11.7T Bruker preclinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system with cryogenic coil technology. The new ultra-high field MRI scanner will replace an obsolete 20-year old system, providing significantly enhanced sensitivity and resolution to support advanced functional,...

This $1,434,445.00 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health's Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) supports the University of Southern California (USC) in developing new deep learning-based architectures, algorithms and training mechanisms to address key challenges in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction. The project aims to create a robust, reliable and trustworthy toolkit for reducing MRI acquisition time, enabling high-quality reconstruction with...

This $3,800,000 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) under CFDA #93.351 will support Washington University in St. Louis' acquisition of a Siemens whole-body human 7-tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The high-field 7-T MRI scanner will provide enhanced signal-to-noise ratio and spatial resolution compared to lower-field 3-T systems, enabling more detailed brain imaging for 29 NIH-funded research projects at...

This $2,000,000 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will provide funding to The Washington University in St. Louis to acquire a new 15.2-Tesla small-animal MRI scanner. This state-of-the-art equipment will replace the university's aging 11.74-Tesla scanner, which has become unsustainable due to high liquid helium consumption costs. The new 15.2-Tesla scanner will offer significantly improved signal-to-noise...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286), provides $1,372,638 to Yale University to develop and evaluate a parallel acquisition system for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and deuterium metabolic imaging (DMI). The goal is to create a robust, time-efficient method to acquire both anatomical MRI and non-invasive...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The grant funding will be used to acquire a state-of-the-art 7.0 Tesla preclinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner, the Bruker BioSpec 70/20. This advanced imaging system will significantly enhance Mayo Clinic's research capabilities across multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, cancer, cardiovascular...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will provide $600,000 to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), to purchase a next-generation 3 Tesla human MRI scanner. The new instrument will replace an outdated and obsolete 16-year-old MRI scanner at MGH's Integrated PET-MRI Facility at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. This...

The University of Michigan was awarded a $1.8 million project grant from the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director under the Research Infrastructure Programs federal grant program to purchase a Leica SP8 confocal microscope. The microscope will support over 30 investigators at the University engaged in diabetes, vision, and retinal research by replacing two aging microscopes in the university's shared imaging facility. The new microscope will provide high-speed resonant scanning...