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 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 The new instrument will replace an outdated and obsolete 16-year-old MRI scanner at MGH's Integrated PET-MRI Facility at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.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...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $600,000 to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) to add ultra-high performance magnetic field gradients and amplifiers to a 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy research scanner. This new equipment will dramatically improve the quality of neuroimaging data, enabling enhanced diffusion tractography, functional MRI, and...
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 federal Project Grant award, worth $621,617, was provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program. The award supports the development and optimization of a rapid and robust quantitative magnetic resonance (MR) imaging technique for high-resolution volumetric brain imaging. Key objectives include: Developing and optimizing a new B1-insensitive MR...
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...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $963,000 Project Grant under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617) to Kessler Foundation, Inc. to upgrade the research-dedicated 3T MRI scanner at the Rocco Ortenzio Neuroimaging Center (RONIC). The project will replace the hardware, software, and supporting infrastructure of the current Siemens Skyra Magnetom scanner with the latest Siemens "Vida Fit" technology, including new surface coils,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $3,093,740 to the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc. (RFMH) at the Nathan S. Kline Institute to create an open database of multimodal brain imaging, physiological, and behavioral data from a community-based lifespan sample. The goal is to support integrated investigations across neural, behavioral, and health-related domains to better...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program provides $287,163 to Cornell University from May 2021 through October 2023. The funding supports research entitled "Enabling More Scans per Machine through Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data Processing." The goal is to advance science and engineering research and innovation leading to breakthrough technologies as well as solutions to national and societal challenges, consistent...
This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will enable the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to acquire a state-of-the-art Serial Two-Photon Tomography (STPT) microscope system. The new TissueCyte 1600FC instrument will provide advanced, high-throughput, high-resolution automated imaging capabilities for whole, uncleared rodent brains and spinal cord segments. This technology will...