This $1,391,522 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will fund the acquisition of a Super Argus PET/CT 6R small-animal imaging system for the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York. The new scanner will replace the institute's aging Inveon PET/CT system, which is approaching end-of-life support from the manufacturer. The Super Argus PET/CT 6R will provide superior spatial resolution,...
This Project Grant award of $2,000,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will enable The University of Iowa to upgrade their existing Siemens SOMATOM Force research CT scanner to the new Siemens NAEOTOM Alpha photon-counting CT scanner. This upgraded scanner will provide significant improvements in lung imaging by reducing beam hardening artifacts, improving spatial resolution, and allowing for advanced material separation imaging. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $1,899,234 to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) to replace two obsolete animal imaging systems - a 4.7T MRI scanner and a PET/CT scanner - with a new, integrated 7T MRI-PET scanner. The new integrated scanner will allow simultaneous MRI and PET imaging, improving co-registration and enabling new types of animal research studies...
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 This will replace the university's existing outdated 11.74-Tesla scanner, which has become unsustainable due to high liquid helium consumption costs.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...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $375,665 Project Grant under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to install an integrated radiosynthesis system for the production of non-commercially available PET radiotracers for preclinical imaging applications. The system will allow for the automated production of PET radiotracers labeled with fluorine-18, supporting the synthesis of both established and novel radiotracers. The...
This $827,060 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will support the acquisition of a new Mediso NanoScan preclinical SPECT-CT scanner at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). The new scanner will restore SPECT-CT imaging capabilities for the Cleveland region and enable a broad range of preclinical research programs at CWRU and its partner institutions, including the development of novel theranostic agents, animal...
This Project Grant award of $1,722,700.00 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will fund the acquisition of a state-of-the-art preclinical positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) imaging system at the Yale University PET Center. The new PET/CT system will enhance preclinical imaging research capabilities, enabling advanced quantitative analysis and improved spatial localization of novel...
The University of Washington has been awarded a Cooperative Agreement by 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). The $2,758,909 award, effective August 1, 2024 through May 31, 2029, supports the development of an innovative dual-mode breast cancer scanner that combines Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and X-Ray Tomosynthesis (DBT)....
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 $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...