Small Animal MRI
The Small Animal MRI Core Facility is funded and operated under the Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC). Our facility provides a wide variety of small animal MRI services to investigators within or outside UNC.
The Bruker Biospec 9.4T/30-cm horizontal bore animal MRI system is a shared instrumentation funded to UNC BRIC by NIH S10RR019924. This system is now equipped with a top-of-the-line 12-cm RRI gradient insert (1000 mT/m, and 120 µs 5-95% rise time) and various types of RF coils for high resolution imaging. In 2020, CAMRI received an NIMH Instrumentation Award S10MH124745 to upgrade the console of this system to the Bruker AVANCE NEO.
A brand new Bruker Biospec 9.4T/20-cm horizontal bore animal MRI system with a 4-ch rat brain cryoprobe will be installed in 2021, supported by NIH S10OD026796 and NC Biotech.
[3/18/2020] The Small Animal MRI Core remains open and will continue to serve studies as scheduled. In the meantime, we are monitoring the COVID-19 condition closely and will evaluate the feasibility of accepting new study requests on a case by case basis. Please feel free to contact us at camri@unc.edu should you have any questions.
News
Congrats Mingxia Liu, Assistant Professor, for Being Honored with Two Major Awards
Congratulations Mingxia Liu, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and BRIC; Director, Machine Intelligence in Biomedical Computing Lab; and Co-Director, Radiological Sciences Faculty Development. Mingxia Liu received the Outstanding Area Chair Award from the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2023). She and her colleagues also won the Best Paper Award from Machine Learning in Medical Imaging … Read more
Researchers receive awards at 2023 SNMMI Meeting
At the 2023 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) meeting in Chicago, trainees in the BRIC Director of Radiochemisty Research Dr. Zibo Li’s lab received awards. Dr. Xuedan Wu got the highly competitive M. J. Welch Postdoc travel award, and 1st place in CASNMMI Young Investigator Award. Dr. Muyun Xu got the 1st … Read more
New study reveals strong connection between heart and brain health
Dr. Hongtu Zhu, a BRIC faculty member and his team recently published a paper in Science (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn6598). They used advanced techniques to study the brain and its connection with the rest of the body. Traditional brain imaging methods often overlook the interaction between the brain and other organs. In a recent study, Zhu and colleagues … Read more