Deputy
Dr. Alireza Abaei
Tel. 0731 50-33750
The Core Facility Small Animal Imaging is a member of the Centre for Translational Imaging - From Molecule to Man (MoMAN) that coordinates imaging activities among different researchs units at Ulm University and Medical Center. The Core Facility has a dedicated high-field small animal MRI system with a field strength of 11.7T. The MRI system is suitable for non-invasive investigations on mice and rats. Investigations on larger animals can be performed on a 3T research MRI. If required, it is possible to perform in cooperation with other institutes multimodal imaging studies.
The Facility provides expertise in the field of non-invasive imaging, data analysis and interpretation, experiment design and execution and application.
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Equipment
11.7T Small animal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Field strength: 11.7T and Gradient strength: 750 mT/m
- Slew rate: 6660 T/m/s
- Inner hole diameter: 16 cm
- 1H, 13C, 19F, 23Na, and 31P Imaging and spectroscopy
- < 100 µm spatial resolution
- Wide range of highly sensitive receiver coils
- MR spectroscopy for studies of metabolic processes
- PET/MR/CT image fusion
High Resolution Small Animal Imaging
Cardiac Imaging
![Long axis: 2-chamber view Long axis view of 2-chamber cardiac inaging](/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/moman/Pics/CoreFacilitiesMED/SA1-resized-GIF.gif)
Lung Imaging
![Sagittal view Sagittal view of lung imaging](/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/moman/Pics/CoreFacilitiesMED/S4.jpg)
Neuro Anatomy
![Mouse brain view obtained with a cryogenic brain coil Picture of MRI mouse brain obtained with a cryogenic brain coil](/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/moman/Pics/CoreFacilitiesMED/S7.jpg)
Rapid DTI
![Functional MRI with DTI Fiber Tracking Picture of functional MRI with DTI Fiber Tracking](/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/moman/Pics/CoreFacilitiesMED/SA8.png)