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Human 7T National Facility

	The 7 T scanner was funded by the Joint Infrastructure Scheme (The Wellcome Trust, the Office of Science and Technology and the Higher Education Funding Council for England). The building was funded by Professor Sir Peter Mansfield and the University of Nottingham. The original grant to purchase the Nottingham 7T scanner allocated some of the scanner time to be a National Facility for ultrahigh field MR studies. The 7T National Facility is managed by an international management committee, which makes decisions on allowing access when demand becomes too great. Current MRC funding will cover the basic costs of running the scanner until December 2009. We already have a number of external collaborators. You can read a Progress Report that we wrote at the end of May 2009 to find out how the scanner has been used recently. We have also written the following pages which describe the techniques that are now available for routine use: Techniques for functional brain imaging, including quantitative measures of cortical activity Techniques for anatomical brain imaging, including quantitative measures of structure Techniques for spectroscopy Management committee Adrian Carpenter, Cambridge Peter Jezzard, Oxford Paul Matthews, GSK Roger Ordidge, UCL John Pickard, Cambridge Klaas Pruessmann, Zurich, Switzerland Bob Turner, Leipzig, Germany Steve Williams, Institute of Psychiatry, London Gaining access to the facility To apply for scanner time, please initially email 7t_man@magres.nottingham.ac.uk, which will put you in touch with the most appropriate collaborator in the SPMMRC. After initial discussions (and possibly pilot scanning) it will be necessary to write a short (1 page) proposal to be circulated to the management committee for approval. More specific details of our scanning procedures can be found elseswhere on the SPMMRC website. Current collaborators Bridge and Clare (Oxford): investigating structure/function relationships in the visual field [127] Stagg (Oxford): using 7T MRS to study effects of DSC Welchman ( Birmingham): investigating visual signals relating to the perception of three-dimensional structure Diedrichsen (Bangor/UCL): studying sensorimotor integration in the cerebellum Golay (UCL): comparing ASL methods Larsson (Copenhagen): developing techniques to monitor contrast agent uptake in tissues Nagarajan (UCSF): using fMRI to study MEG inverse solutions including Bayesian approaches Husain (UCL): studying two patients with rare micro-lesions of the supplementary eye field and supplementary motor area Frydman (Weizmann): developing methods of 2D-spectrocopy at 7T. We also have strong links with industry: AZ, GSK, Pfizer, Unilever, and many companies designing MR compatible equipment such as Brain Products (Munich)).

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