MRI: Acquisition of a High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging System for Science and Engineering Research

NSF MRI提案(R.L.Magin，P.I.)为科学和工程研究获取高场磁共振成像系统摘要技术描述磁共振成像(MRI)和光谱学(MRS)的应用正迅速扩展到传统的化学和医学领域之外。工程师、生物学家甚至艺术家都在以新的方式看待他们的问题，通过使用非接触式、无辐射和全三维的磁共振成像。流体的流动、催化剂的效率、聚合物的强度以及正在发育的植物的隐藏结构都可以用微米级的分辨率和短到几分之一秒的时间段来观察。神经学家可以探索记忆和认知的模型，而化学工程师可以研究从分子到工业规模的过程。这一切都是使用特殊的磁共振成像技术实现的，这些技术对系统结构、功能和动力学进行了编码。意义与影响这项提议的总体目标是将MRI(Bruker 9.4T成像光谱仪)的成像和分析能力带给更多的伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校(UIC)和伊利诺伊理工学院(IIT)的工程师和科学家。我们计划在UIC研究资源中心的管辖下，在一个专门的校园研究空间内运行该系统。新的磁共振成像系统也将是磁共振成像本科生和研究生实验室课程的主要成像系统，也是UIC的REU、RET和K-12推广计划的关键资产。通过这种方式，我们将增加这些校园社区对最先进的磁共振成像的共享访问。

NSF MRI Proposal (R. L. Magin, P. I.)Acquisition of a High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging System for Science and Engineering ResearchAbstractTechnical Description The applications of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS) are rapidly expanding beyond the traditional domains of chemistry and medicine. Engineers, biologists, and even artists are seeing their problems in new ways through the use of non-contact, radiation free and fully three dimensional MR imaging. The flow of fluids, the efficiency of catalysts, the strength of polymers, and the hidden structure of developing plants can all be viewed with micron scale resolution and in time periods as short as a fraction of a second. Neuroscientists can probe models of memory and cognition, while chemical engineers can study processes from the molecular to the industrial scale. This is all achieved using special MRI techniques that encode system structure, function, and dynamics. Significance & Impact The overall goal of this proposal is to bring the imaging and analytical power of MRI (Bruker 9.4 T imaging spectrometer) to a larger community of engineers and scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). We plan to operate the system under the jurisdiction of the UIC Research Resources Center in a dedicated campus research space. The new MRI will also be the principal imaging system for undergraduate and graduate laboratory courses in magnetic resonance imaging and a key asset for REU, RET and K-12 outreach programs at UIC. In this manner we will increase the shared access of these campus communities to state of the art magnetic resonance imaging.