Biological imaging is an important research tool for understanding tissue structure and elucidating the various physiological functions of living organisms. It uses light or electron microscopy to obtain direct images of the microstructure of biological cells and tissues, and the resulting images are analyzed to understand the various physiological processes of biological cells. CD BioSciences' Bioimaging Centre has dozens of devices and, more importantly, our expertise and experience are invaluable to the industries and clients we serve. We can provide Bruker 13 cm 7T Horizontal Bore MRI Scanner-based bioimaging services.
The MRI is complemented with an animal procedure room, dedicated biometric monitoring equipment, inhaled anesthesia machines, and multiple data workstations with a variety of software packages for processing and analysis.
Examples of available weighting/contrast/acquisition modules:
1. T1, T2, T2*, rho, CPMG, inversion recovery, steady-state free procession
2. Diffusion and time of flight weighting
3. Diffusion tensor imaging
4. Susceptibility weighting
5. BOLD functional imaging
6. Fat/water quantification Arterial spin labeling
7. MRS localized spectroscopy and chemical shift imaging utilizing STEAM and PRESS
This MRI offers powerful non-invasive tools for evaluating and quantifying anatomical and functional changes at high spatial and temporal resolution in preclinical animal, tissue engineering, and material development programs with optimized protocols enabling anatomical, diffusion, flow, and functional measurements. The Bruker AVIII 13cm 7T MRI scanner has high performance gradient set and amplifiers, an assortment of RF volume coils with internal diameters ranging from 62mm to 23mm in addition to surface coilsand for localized image acquisition at high-resolution and sensitivity. State-of-the-art 2D and 3D spin-echo, gradient echo, echo-planer imaging (EPI), ultrashot echo time (UTE), and localized spectroscopy (MRS) imaging acquisition, reconstruction, and analysis methods are available to facilitate tissue engineering/regeneration, drug discovery, contrast agent development/targeting, cancer biology, neuroscience, and transgenic investigations.
In recent years, with the development of optical imaging technology, especially the introduction of digital imaging and computer image analysis, bioimaging has become an indispensable method in cell biology research. CD BioSciences' bioimaging laboratory is committed to providing state-of-the-art technical support to our customers. If you are interested, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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