PharmaScan

MRI System for Pharmaceutical Industry and Biotechnology

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of laboratory animals has been established in a multitude of biological and pharmacological applications and already has become the accepted gold standard in several of them. The range of applications has expanded dramatically over the past few years via the introduction of more and more functional methods. MRI is showing benefits in the growing field of transgenic animal investigations since it is perfectly suited for providing a comprehensive description of the changes induced at the organ or animal level.
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To meet these requirements BRUKER developed the PharmaScan, a high-field, easy-to-use and at the same time easy-to-install and very costeffective MR-system. It is designed for MRI applications on small animals such as mice and rats in the field of routine pharmaceutical and biomedical research. With the integrated semi-automatic image acquisition and analysis, fast and reliable results can be obtained by simple operation of the system by non-academic personnel, without compromising full flexibility for the MR expert.

for routine operation
high performance
cost efficient
for regular laboratory environment
4.7 or 7 Tesla magnetic field strength
actively shielded magnet systems
16 cm magnet clear bore size
actively shielded gradient system
gradient strength up to 370 mT/m
single channel 1H electronics
no tune/no match RF coils
animal handling and life monitoring system available