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 Project Grant award of $2,000,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will fund the acquisition of a new 3 Tesla MRI scanner at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). The advanced scanner with high-performance gradients will enhance VUMC's research capabilities, especially for diffusion imaging and functional MRI of the brain and spine. The award will increase VUMC's MRI research capacity to support over 82 active...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351 - Research Infrastructure Programs) provides $1,899,234 to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) to replace obsolete MRI and PET scanning equipment used for animal research. The award will fund a new integrated MRI-PET scanner with a 7T magnet, which will offer improved image quality, reduced operating costs, and expanded research capabilities compared to the...
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 $2,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will support the acquisition of a new FDA-approved 7T MRI scanner at Stanford University's Lucas Center for Imaging. The funding will replace an aging 7T MRI system that has become increasingly difficult to service due to the discontinuation of its cryostat design by the original manufacturer. The new Siemens 7T MRI scanner will provide enhanced imaging...
This $2,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will provide funding for The Washington University in St. Louis to acquire a new 15.2-Tesla small-animal MRI scanner. This will replace the university's existing outdated 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 ratio, spatial...
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) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will fund the purchase of a new 3T Siemens Vida MRI system for the Pennington Biomedical Research Center (PBRC) in Louisiana. The state-of-the-art MRI system will replace two aging GE 3T scanners and significantly increase PBRC's capacity to perform human metabolism-related research scans, including studies on obesity, diabetes, cancer, aging, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) 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 for mental health research. The new MRI system will replace an obsolete 16-year-old scanner and integrate with MGH's existing PET-MRI facility at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. The...
This $884,573 federal 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), is supporting the development of a fast, comprehensive brain MRI technique. The goal is to reduce exam duration by roughly three-fold while capturing quantitative and qualitative MRI contrasts, as well as gadolinium-based enhancement. The project is being led by...