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Indkøb af Bruker Biospec 9.4T 20 cm bore MRI system.

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Aarhus Universitet har til hensigt, at indgå kontrakt med Bruker Biospin Scandinavia AB om indkøb af en Bruker Biospec 9.4T 20 cm bore MRI system, uden forudgående udbudsbekendtgørelse jf. Europa-Parlamentets og Rådets direktiv nr. 2004/18/EF af 31. marts 2004 om samordning af fremgangsmåderne ved indgåelse af offentlige vareindkøbskontrakter, offentlige tjenesteydelseskontrakter og offentlige bygge og anlægskontrakter Art. 31, stk. 1, Litra b. Aarhus Universitet udsender derfor denne bekendtgørelse, da dette system er det eneste på markedet, som er egnet til de pågældende gruppers forskningsformål.

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Introduction: This magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system purchase is made possible by a grant earmarked for preclinical research on positron emission tomography (PET) imaging combined with MRI in small animals. When not in use for PET-MRI the MRI system is to be used for high resolution MR imaging in live animals (primarily rodents) and tissue samples. A primary focus of this branch of our research is advanced methods in diffusion MRI and MR microscopy and therefore the system is required to have a strong field (at least 9.4 T) and strong gradients (at least 600 mT/m, stronger is better). Lower field strength systems (e.g. with built-in PET imaging hardware) are therefore not suitable for our purposes. The research to be performed on the system is carried out in collaboration with other groups at University of Aarhus and laboratories and individuals in the US with whom our research center has collaborated for a long time. These groups all use Bruker systems and therefore the exchange of experimental know-how and sequence development expertise between our groups will be greatly enhanced by having a Bruker system at our site. Taking the above mentioned factors into account we have decided that the Bruker Biospec 9.4T 20 cm bore system is the ideal system for our research purposes. The main technical (hardware related) reasons for this choice are stated below: 1. The system is to be used for combined PET-MRI in animals using the MRI compatible PET probe developed at Brookhaven. Therefore, an MRI system with documented compatibility with this PET insert is required for our site. The primary reason for this is hardware compatibility, but having identical systems at the two sites is also important because it allows for direct data comparison. This is an important factor because the collaboration has focus on hardware improvement and method development. Being able to work in parallel and reproduce findings on identical but independent systems is central to the success of this collaboration. 2. The system is also to be used in an ongoing collaboration with a group at the University of Florida. Our groups have a research grant together on development of MR microscopy. The micro coils (hardware) needed for these studies are only available from Bruker. Although originally intended for vertical bore MR systems it has recently been shown that this specialized equipment from Bruker can be made to work with the Bruker 9.4T horizontal system.

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18.9.2012