Thought you might be interested, or you may pass this notice to some lab
planning to get into imaging:
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To anyone interested in an animal MRI instrument:
The in vivo NMR Research Center of NIH is retiring their
2 Tesla/45 cm bore research MRI instrument
and will be donating/transferring it to a deserving laboratory to make room
for a newer instrument here.
Including: Oxford horizontal 2 Tesla/45 cm bore magnet,
Oxford RT shims and supply
Bruker/GE Acustar 280 mm ID shielded gradients, 3 gau/cm
Crown Techron gradient amplifiers
GE Omega console running 6.0.3 software on a Sun4 Sparc.
The fringe field of this magnet (the 5 gauss line) is at about 7 meters
from center (including up and down), to give you an idea of space required.
Preference will be given to candidate labs with viable plans to use it as a
complete instrument and having a current NIH grant, but others will be
considered. This is an instrument most suited for imaging of monkeys and
dogs down to mice.
The magnet is presently at zero field and warming up. The console is still
in-place and operable.
Costs for wrapping up and shipping and subsequent operation of the
instrument will be the responsibility of the receiving laboratory, however
we can offer every reasonable assistance here at NIH. It is anticipated
that the instrument should be out of the NIH laboratory by January 15, 1999.
If you have an interest in this instrument, please send a 1-3 page proposal
for its use to me:
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Alan Olson, Instrument Engineer
National Institutes of Health, NINDS
10 CENTER DR, Room B1D 125, MSC 1060
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1060
Phone: 301 496 8139, FAX: 301 402 0119
e-mail: awo@helix.nih.gov, olsonc@cvn.net(Alan)
voice mail: 1 800 952 7951 + when it answers: 68139
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