Kernspintomographie an vorklinischen Tiermodellen

When compared to its older cousins chemical NMR and clinical MRI, aMRI is a small but rapidly growing field. Its “patients“ are laboratory animals of all kind with rats and mice dominating. Its operational use is in drug- and basic biomedical research. aMRI scanners today are smaller versions of human MRI systems employing the same features for fast and easy operation. In order to keep the relative geometrical resolution between mice and man, the absolute resolution (typically 50micron) has to be increased tenfold in each dimension. This requires extreme high field magnets which today peak out at 18T. Another tr…