Siemens Prisma 3T MRI operates as a recharge facility that is open to all on-campus researchers and to certain off-campus entities subject to availability and regulatory approvals. The recharge rate can be found here. Interested parties should contact Ben Inglis directly.
Prisma technical details
Siemens Prisma 3 tesla (3T) MRI scanner with 64 receive RF channels and Tim-TX parallel body RF transmit coil. Receive-only RF coils: 20-channel integrated head/neck, 64-channel integrated head/neck, 32-channel head only, 32-channel spine, 18-channel body matrix, large and small 4-channel flex surface coils.
Gradients: maximum gradient amplitude of 80 mT/m with a 200 T/m/s slew rate.
Software: XA30 on Windows 10 High Performance Host Computer. Application Suites: Neuro, Angio, Cardiac, Body, Onco, Breast, Ortho, Pediatric.
Applications packages: SWI, 2D and 3D ASL (including single- and multi-delay PCASL), DSC perfusion, angiography, simultaneous multislice (SMS) EPI, Neuro fMRI/DTI, Advanced diffusion. BLADE.
Works-in-progress and custom pulse sequences
The scanner has available a number of custom pulse sequences obtained from Siemens as works-in-progress (WIP) code, and from other universities via core competence partnership (C2P) research agreements. There may be requirements that you acknowledge the sequence authors in your publication. Since there is generally no way to distinguish between product, WIP and C2P sequences on the scanner, and since the versions may change frequently, please contact Ben Inglis prior to submitting a manuscript so that correct information can be included.
Funding acknowledgements for publications
Please include the following acknowledgments for funding in any papers arising from data collected on the Trio or Prisma scanners:
Old Siemens Trio: NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program, award number BCS-0821855
Current Siemens Prisma: NIH S10 Instrumentation Grant Program, award number S10OD030378-01A1
