Bruker Corporation Announces Successful Installation of Record-Setting Ultra-High Field 17 Tesla Preclinical MRI System at the NeuroSpin Research Center in France

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bruker announced today that it has successfully installed its BioSpec® 170/25 system at the CEA NeuroSpin research center near Paris, France (www.meteoreservice.com/neurospin). The world’s first horizontal ultra-high magnetic field 17.2 Tesla MRI system features a magnet bore diameter of 25 cm. It is equipped with a novel Bruker BGA-S™ gradient system with unsurpassed amplitude and slew rate specifications for cutting-edge preclinical in vivo imaging on small animals. These magnet and gradient innovations overcome current limits, and enable new MRI techniques for preclinical research, such as molecular imaging at a microscopic scale, or functional and connectivity neuroimaging at higher spatial resolution. The translation of this preclinical MRI research to clinical applications may have important benefits for human healthcare, to better understand, diagnose or manage neurological and psychiatric disorders.