7 Tesla Human MRI Scanner

Contact

MR technologists & matching/development scheduling
Email: vuiis.hi.mri@vumc.org

Project application/renewal questions
Email: vuiis.hi.studyreview@vumc.org

Director: Seth Smith
Email: seth.smith@vumc.org
Phone: (615) 421-8527

7T Technical Manager: Jason Moore
Email: jason.e.moore@vumc.org

7T Scanner:
(615) 936-7257

 

Description

Our 7T scanner is a 55 cm bore Philips Achieva whole-body MR imager/spectrometer with 8 channel transmit and 32 receiver channels as well as full multi-nuclei capabilities. It was upgraded to a fully digital system in December 2022. The scanner has a pneumatic moving bed and an intercom system for communication between investigators and subjects. The system has the same software, pulse-programming environment, and pulse sequences as current 3T Philips scanners. The 7T system has Philips peripheral pulse, respiratory and cardiac gating capabilities, as well as audio/visual presentation equipment available. Current coils are: 32 channel proton head coil (receive), 16 channel cervical spine array (transmit and receive), as well as non-proton coils and in-house built coils.

 

Additional Information

 

Example Images

 

  • 3-D T1-weighted MPRAGE with 0.6 mm isotropic resolution

MPRAGE

 

  • 3-D quantitative T2* maps with 0.6 mm isotropic resolution

T2star and R2star

 

  • 3-D SWI with 0.6 mm isotropic resolution

SWI

 

  • SWI minimum intensity projection

SWI

 

  • 2-D multi-slice GraSE with 0.5 mm in-plane resolution

SWI

 

  • 3-D FLAIR with 0.7 mm in-plane resolution

SWI

 

Select Recent VUIIS 7T Publications