Siemens Magnetom Verio MRI Scanner

描述(由申请人提供)：这是一份购买3特斯拉西门子Verio 32-Hannel磁共振成像仪的申请。该仪器将促进堪萨斯大学医学中心对肥胖、吸烟、阿尔茨海默病和大脑恢复损伤的神经科学的广泛研究。我们拥有一群才华横溢、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。这些人一直在使用西门子Allegra仅限头部的MRI仪器，并取得了相当大的进步。然而，该系统基于已有10年历史的过时设计，缺乏最先进系统的许多可用功能，并妨碍我们分享特定于平台的技术开发。此外，现有的系统变得如此繁忙，以至于没有足够的时间来进行我们建议进行的许多令人兴奋的项目。最后，我们的研究计划主要针对肥胖-美国国立卫生研究院重点领域的神经成像研究。尽管我们已经取得了相当大的进步，但我们扫描这一人群中相当一部分人的能力有限，因为我们的仅限头部的Allegra扫描仪的内径有限，这阻止了许多肥胖受试者参与这些研究。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。 与公共健康相关：购买最先进的3特斯拉西门子Verio磁共振研究扫描仪将使研究人员能够对大脑与肥胖、吸烟、阿尔茨海默病、脑损伤恢复和学习的关系进行重要的科学研究。该仪器的出现将帮助堪萨斯大学医学中心和西门子医疗解决方案美国公司创造大量的科学和支持工作岗位，并维护许多其他工作岗位。西门子Verio扫描仪的设计对环境的影响很低：低能耗、零氦蒸发技术、减少产品质量和塑料部件标签回收，以便大多数材料可以重复使用。

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10-year old outdated design, lacks many of the features that are available on state-of-the-art systems, and precludes our sharing our technical developments which are platform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.