Philips Ingenia™ 1.5T MRI scanner

The 1.5T system has a wide 70 cm bore and is outfitted with Philips’ RF coil technology that embeds receiver modules inside the bore of the magnet. It is identical to six other Philips Ingenia TM 1.5T scanners in the Clinical Radiology Department. The 1.5T MR scanner suite is located between the Philips 3T Achieva TM and the large animal cath lab.

The scanner shares its control room with the 3T system, and the screen room has a door providing direct access to the large animal cath lab. Scanner accessories include an MR elastography system and in-room displays and foot pedals for MR-guided interventions. Like the large animal cath lab, the MR scan room is BSL-2 compliant.

Philips Achieva™ 3.0T X-series MRI scanner

The Achieva™ 3.0T X-series features an actively shielded, superconducting magnet with large 50 cm FOV capabilities. The RF system provides 32 RF receive channels, and the scanner has a comprehensive collection of surface coils including a 32-channel phased-array cardiac coil, a 32-channel head coil, and an “rf box” that permits the construction of custom-built coils.

The X-series Quasar Dual gradient allows selection of either 40 mT/m peak amplitude combined with a slew rate of 200 T/m/s, or in studies such as diffusion-weighted imaging that profit from high gradient amplitude, an 80 mT/m peak amplitude with a slew rate of 100 T/m/s. Both performance levels can be achieved over the entire FOV with good linearity.

The scanner has full multi-nuclear capability including a complete suite of in-house and commercially built 129Xe, 3He, 13C and 31P coils. The system has a dual-transmit body coil that overcomes dielectric shading artifacts. Scanner accessories include an MR elastography system and ancillary equipment needed for fMRI studies including a full audiovisual paradigm system by Avotec, and MR-compatible EEG hardware.  

Philips Ingenia™ 3.0T MRI scanner

The Philips Ingenia TM 3.0T system features an actively shielded, superconducting magnet with a 70 cm patient bore and a large 55 cm FOV capability. The gradient system has two operational modes that permit a maximum gradient strength of 40mT/m with a slew rate of 200 T/m/s, or maximum gradient strength of 80 mT/m with a slew rate of 100 T/m/s.

The RF system is outfitted with Philips’ RF coil technology that embeds receiver modules inside the bore of the magnet. The system has a full suite of imaging coils, and interfaces for home-made coils. In 2017 it became the first Ingenia TM system in the world to have multi-nuclear capability. Like the Achieva TM 3T scanner, the system has a duel-transmit body coil that overcomes dielectric shading artifacts.

The system also has ancillary equipment to support fMRI studies including a full audiovisual paradigm system by Avotec TM, a Nordic NeuroLab TM MR-compatible 4k display, and MR-compatible EEG hardware. It also has an in-bore eye tracking system that can be used to monitor and record the subject’s gaze. The Ingenia TM 3.0T was installed in the new Clinical Sciences Pavilion (Location T) at Cincinnati Children’s in May 2015.

The placement of the scanner in the translational research tower is part of an initiative within the institution to provide a seamless experience for participants in translational research studies. The imaging suite in Location T includes a waiting room, two interview rooms, two changing rooms and a prep-recovery room for participants requiring sedation and / or anesthesia.

Philips Ingenia Elition™ 3.0T MRI scanner

The Philips Ingenia Elition TM scanner shares its control room with the 3.0T Ingenia TM. The system features an actively shielded, superconducting magnet with a 70 cm patient bore and a large 55cm FOC capability. Maximum gradient strength is 45 mT/m with a slew rate of 220 T/m/s.

The RF system is outfitted with Philips’ RF coil technology that embeds receiver modules inside the bore of the magnet. The system has a full suite of imaging coils, and interfaces for home-made coils. Multi-nuclear capability is scheduled to be added to the system in the near future. Like the other Philips 3.0T scanners, the system has a dual-transmit body coil that overcomes dielectric shading artifacts.

The system also has ancillary equipment to support fMRI studies including a full audio paradigm system by Avotec TM, and Nordic NeuroLab TM MR-compatible 4k display. The Ingenia Elition TM 3.0T was installed in May 2018 in the Clinical Sciences Pavilion (Location T) at Cincinnati Children’s.

ONI 1.5T MRI scanner

The ONI MR scanner installed in the IRC was originally designed for adult orthopedic use.

The scanner has been modified for usage as a development platform for neonatal MRI.

The scanner has a gradient set which is capable of 70 mT/m gradient pulses with a slew rate of 300 T/m/s.

The system has three sets of imaging electronics: conventional ONI orthopedic imaging electronics, a fully integrated GE HDx system with eight receive channels, and a Philips Ingenia™ system. Switching between imaging systems can be accomplished with a single button push. The ONI lab is a BSL-2 capable facility.

Bruker Biospec 70/30 MRI scanner

The Bruker scanner has a 30 cm inner diameter (I.D.) with a 20.5 cm shielded imaging gradient system (200 mT/m for conventional imaging) and 12 cm I.D. high field gradient (400 mT/m) insert for micro imaging. It is a broadband imaging spectrometer operating at a magnetic field of 7.0 Tesla (300.3 MHz) with multinuclear and fast imaging (including EPI) capabilities.

This system is capable of 31P, 23NA, 19F and 13C chemical shift imaging and spectroscopy. In 2014 the system was upgraded to the latest generation of Bruker electronics.

Aplio i800 US System

This state-of-the-art ultrasound system allows conventional gray-scale (b-mode) and Doppler imaging as well as numerous quantitative capabilities, including 2D shear wave elastography.

The machine also is enabled to perform contrast-enhanced ultrasound. A full complement of low frequency and high frequency transducers are available. Advanced quantitative techniques are also available. The system can be used in the IRC, Schubert Research Clinic, or portably elsewhere (e.g., in clinic or inpatient areas).

Philips FD20 Catheterization Research Laboratory

The Philips FD20 AlluraClarity™ cath lab has a 20 x 20 cm flat detector mounted on a fully gimbaled C-arm. The system has high-end features that include the ability to generate cone beam CT images using gantry rotation as well as 3D rotational angiography, and automatic image registration of imported images from other modalities including CT, MR, and PET-CT.

Furthermore, the system has a complete image processing package for quantitative measurements and segmentation of anatomical landmarks as well as perfusion measurements based on digital subtraction angiograms.

The suite includes state-of-the art Canon ultrasound instrumentation for vascular and cardiac imaging including Doppler capability, ventilators and anesthesia equipment to support a variety of animal experiments. The cath lab is a BSL-2 capable facility that permits imaging of potentially infectious animals, and has a doorway leading directly to the 1.5 Tesla Ingenia™ MR imaging system.

Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research (CPIR) Hyperpolarized Gas Laboratory