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9.4 T small animal MRI using clinical components for direct translational studies

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Title
9.4 T small animal MRI using clinical components for direct translational studies
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Journal of Translational Medicine, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12967-017-1373-7
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Jörg Felder, A. Avdo Celik, Chang-Hoon Choi, Stefan Schwan, N. Jon Shah

Abstract

Magnetic resonance is a major preclinical and clinical imaging modality ideally suited for longitudinal studies, e.g. in pharmacological developments. The lack of a proven platform that maintains an identical imaging protocol between preclinical and clinical platforms is solved with the construction of an animal scanner based on clinical hard- and software. A small animal magnet and gradient system were connected to a clinical MR system. Several hardware components were either modified or built in-house to achieve compatibility. The clinical software was modified to account for the different field-of-view of a preclinical MR system. The established scanner was evaluated using clinical QA protocols, and platform compatibility for translational research was verified against clinical scanners of different field strength. The constructed animal scanner operates with the majority of clinical imaging sequences. Translational research is greatly facilitated as protocols can be shared between preclinical and clinical platforms. Hence, when maintaining sequences parameters, maximum similarity between pulses played out on a human or an animal system is maintained. Coupling of a small animal magnet with a clinical MR system is a flexible, easy to use way to establish and advance translational imaging capability. It provides cost and labor efficient translational capability as no tedious sequence reprogramming between moieties is required and cross-platform compatibility of sequences facilitates multi-center studies.

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Unknown 29 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 21%
Student > Bachelor 3 10%
Other 2 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 7%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 7 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 5 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 14%
Neuroscience 3 10%
Design 2 7%
Computer Science 2 7%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 10 34%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 December 2017.
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#15,487,739
of 23,015,156 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Translational Medicine
#2,258
of 4,025 outputs
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#269,349
of 441,975 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Translational Medicine
#42
of 61 outputs
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