QNMR Resources

The resources for QNMR are housed in a new 30,000 square feet MRRC building at Yale School of Medicine, 300 Cedar Street, in the North TAC Buildling.
The primary MR resources are 3 horizontal-bore animal scanners (4.0T, 9.4T, 11.7T) housed in a 6,000 square feet of space custom designed for performing state-of-the-art MR animal research and a neurophysiology laboratory located in a 1,500 square feet space adjacent to the horizontal-bore systems. All systems are operational and are being used to support QNMR activities.
QNMR shares other resources of the MRRC: 2,000 square feet electronics shop for RF probe design, 3 electrical engineers for system maintenance and MR system hardware development and integration, 2 research support staff for animal preparation and physiology, and a 1,500 square feet biochemistry laboratory.

Yale neuroscientists requesting systemtime will contact the Director (Dr. Hyder) and/or the Coordinator (Dr. Herman) with a brief project proposal that outlines goals, hypotheses, and methods.
The Steering Committee will assess the tehchnical feasibility of the project and help develop a strategy for the implementation of methods to support the project. Prior to the meeting, the Director will ensure that adequate information is available on the model and the desired goals of the investigator to allow in depth discussion of strategies to be taken.
Investigators using QNMR resources will be expected to correspond with the Core Directors or Co-Directors in early planning stages of a project so that specific requirements for use of the instrument and support personnel can be evaluated.
If the project is approved, an agreement will be made between the investigator and the Steering Committee as to the full instrument time to be allotted and the number of experiments to be conducted. The Investigator will be provided full access to technical expertise of the MRRC staff.
Priority will be given to NIH funded investigators, particularly from NINDS. For "pilot" projects where the user does not have money earmarked for user fees, or is not NIH-funded, these fees will be funded by the QNMR. Upon approval, a written agreement will be provided to the investigator specifying the amount of time and other resources provided.