Siemens Magnetom Verio MRI Scanner

描述（由申请人提供）：现申请购买一台3特斯拉西门子Verio 32通道磁共振成像扫描仪。该仪器将促进堪萨斯大学医学中心对肥胖、吸烟、阿尔茨海默病和脑恢复损伤的神经科学的广泛研究。我们有一群非常有才华和富有成效的合格调查人员，他们得到了一群杰出的成像科学家的支持。这些人一直在使用现有的西门子Allegra头部MRI仪器，并取得了相当大的进步。然而，该系统基于10年前的过时设计，缺乏许多最先进系统上可用的功能，并且阻碍了我们分享特定平台的技术开发。此外，现有的系统正变得如此繁忙，以至于没有足够的时间来执行我们提议执行的许多令人兴奋的项目。最后，我们的研究项目在很大程度上是针对肥胖的神经成像研究-国家卫生研究院的重点领域。尽管我们已经取得了相当大的进展，但由于我们的头部专用Allegra扫描仪的孔大小有限，我们扫描相当一部分人群的能力有限，这使得许多肥胖受试者无法参加这些研究。一种新的Verio扫描仪将解决所有这些限制，并将使我们的研究向前发展，并扩展到新的研究领域。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a request to purchase a 3 Tesla Siemens Verio 32-hannel magnetic resonance imaging scanner. This instrument will facilitate extensive research into the neuroscience of obesity, smoking, Alzheimer's disease, and brain recovery injury at the University of Kansas Medical Center. We have an extremely talented and productive group of qualifying investigators who are supported by an outstanding group of imaging scientists. These individuals have been using an existing Siemens Allegra head-only MRI instrument and made considerable advances. However, this system is based on a >10-year old outdated design, lacks many of the features that are available on state-of-the-art systems, and precludes our sharing our technical developments which are platform specific. Moreover, the existing system is becoming so busy that there is inadequate time available for the many exciting projects that we propose to carry out. Finally, our research program is heavily directed towards neuroimaging studies in obesity - National Institutes of Health focus area. Although we have made considerable progress, we are limited in our ability to scan a considerable portion of this population because of the limited bore size of our head-only Allegra scanner which prevents many obese subjects from taking part in these studies. A new Verio scanner will solve all of these limitations and will allow us to move our research forward and to expand into new areas of research. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The purchase of a state-of-the-art 3 Tesla Siemens Verio MRI research scanner will allow the researchers to carry out vital scientific studies into the brain involvement in obesity, smoking, Alzheimer's disease, recovery from brain injury, and learning. The presence of this instrument will help create numerous scientific and support jobs as well as maintain many others at the University of Kansas Medical Center and at Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. The Siemens Verio scanner is designed to be environmentally low impact: low energy consumption, zero helium boil-off technology, and reduced product mass and plastic parts labeled for recycling so that most materials can be reused.