We will in 2021-2022 install a state-of-the-art clinical MR scanner, a 3T multi-nuclear GE SIGNA™ Premier, in the heart of DTU Health Technology in building 204 flanked by operation rooms for large animal research and as direct neighbor to the small animal stables. A SpinAligner polarizer will installed next to the MR scanner for hyperpolarized MR studies.
For the MR section this provides a platform for clinical translation and a strong facility to bring our expertises in metabolism, neuroimaging and image computing together. Our teaching and research will benefit from the new capability of scanning healthy human volunteers. Our hardware and software development will be boosted with the possibility for in house evaluation.
This new clinical and animal MR imaging facility will bridge and support several of our department flagships opening for cross DTU and outside world partnerships.
Through close collaborations with the leading university hospitals in Denmark, we already have access to their MR research infrastructure, e.g.