Equipment and Services - MR core facility - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Equipment and services
MR Core Facility offers the latest technology in MR-scanning and MS imaging as well as technical support and expertise. We support research needs for in vivo MR imaging and spectroscopy in disease models in small animals, as well as MR and MS metabolomics of human tissue samples and body fluids and ex vivo high resolution NMR spectroscopy. In addition to providing access to MR instruments, we can facilitate in areas such as experimental planning, MR-sequence optimization, training for data acquisition and post-processing. We also provide access to MR imaging and spectroscopy of patients and healthy volunteers.
Services
For clinical MR the MR Core facility will help with applications for access, but due to limited resources, service during access will be limited to technical support and help from a radiographer during scanning.
For preclinical MR and NMR most services require that the users run their own experiments after an initial period of training and set up of MR protocols where the MR Core Facility staff will assist.
Clinical MR
- MR imaging and spectroscopy of human patients and healthy volunteers
Pre-clinical MR/PET
- In-vivo MR imaging of disease models in small animals (mainly rats and mice)
- In-vivo MR spectroscopy (single voxel or chemical shift imaging) in small animals
- In-vivo PET imaging in small animals (mice whole body and rat head)
NMR spectroscopy
- High-resolution NMR spectroscopy for biological fluids and tissue samples
- High-resolution magic angle spinning (HR-MAS) MR spectroscopy
- Automation of NMR spectroscopy using Sample Jet
MS and MS Imaging
- RapifleX MALDI Tissuetyper (MALDI-TOF/TOF)
- GCMS Agilent 7890A GC coupled with 5975 series MSD
Contact
Visiting address
MR Core Facility
Olav Kyrres gt 11, Trondheim
Postal address
MR Core Facility
MTFS
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Post box 8905
N-7491 Trondheim
Norway