University of Nottingham - Core Equipment Award

我们需要核心设备来扩大我们在生物医学成像方面的能力，通过支持专业车间的增强，用于MRI（磁共振成像）的射频工程和使用光泵磁强计（OPMs）开发脑磁图（MEG）。这些改进将特别支持使用一种新的超高场（11.7T）核磁共振扫描仪进行人体成像，这是我们正在为英国建立的国家设施。所需要的设备是矢量网络分析仪、高频示波器、介电探头、光纤测温系统和3D打印机。我们还需要核心设备，这些设备将加速代谢和功能成像的新工作，最终将特别利用超高场扫描仪提高的灵敏度和光谱分辨率。这是一个射频线圈，可以在7T时研究头部的氘，一个视觉和听觉呈现系统和一个局部磁场（B0）闪烁系统。核心设备将立即使不同的研究人员群体受益，并使科学发展能够支持英国国家超高场人体MRI扫描设施的广泛未来使用。

We request core equipment to expand our capability in biomedical imaging through underpinning specialist workshop enhancements to be used in RF engineering for MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and for the development of magnetoencephalography (MEG) using optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs). These enhancements will particularly support human imaging using a new MRI scanner operating at ultra-high field (11.7T), which we are establishing as a National Facility for the UK. The equipment requested is a vector network analyser, high frequency oscilloscope, dielectric probe set, optical-fibre thermometry system and 3D printer. We also request core equipment that will accelerate new work on metabolic and functional imaging that will ultimately particularly exploit the ultra-high field scanner's increased sensitivity and spectral resolution. This is an RF coil to enable the study of deuterium in the head at 7T, a visual and auditory presentation system and a system for local magnetic field (B0) shimming. The core equipment will immediately benefit a diverse group of researchers and enable scientific developments which support wide-ranging future use of the UK National facility for ultra-high field human MRI scanning.