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MR Technology Development
The Magnetic Resonance (MR) Technology Group comprises specialists in the following areas: neuroscience, engineering, physics, computer science, biology, chemistry, and medicine.
The group develops innovative medical devices based on magnetic resonance technology to improve the detection, characterization, and monitoring of human diseases and animal models. More recently, the group has expanded its efforts to include the development of MR imaging (MRI) systems for animals ranging widely in size, from mice to horses.
Technologies being developed by the MR Technology group include:
- A low-cost, silent ‘gradient-free’ MRI imaging system based on a novel MRI imaging principle invented by IBD researchers.
- An advanced MR console to aid MR scientists in the implementation and validation of MRI techniques. The NRC-IBD TMX MR console has been designed from the ground up, and uniquely includes MRI physics simulation as an integral component. It will provide users with enhanced tools to understand and validate new techniques.
- A multi-channel digital receiver and multi-transmit technology for parallel imaging that will enable fast imaging techniques to be used with very high magnetic fields, such as 9-18T.
- RF coils to rectify problems associated with image inhomogeneities at very high fields.
- Gradient coils for generating linear magnetic fields necessary for efficient slice selection, frequency encoding, and phase encoding during MRI scans.
- A 100% Canadian, low-cost, high-performance, maintenance-free, low-field MRI system has been developed for installation in the far north of Canada and in emerging countries such as China or India.
- Improved three dimensional imaging methods
- MR compatible devices to be used with the systems developed by the Group
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Read more about MR Technology Development:
- FAST MRI
- Gradient Free MRI
- Gradient Coils
- MRI Console Development
- MRI Imaging Methods
- Multi Transmitter Arrays
- Musaik RF Array Designer Software
- RF Coils
- MRI Systems
