Trouard Secures $2M Specialty MRI Machine

The University of Arizona has secured a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to purchase a specialty MRI machine optimized for brain scanning: a Siemens 3T Skyra. BME professor emeritus Ted Trouard is the primary investigator on the grant, which aims to produce faster, clearer and more comprehensive brain images. The machine is slated for delivery this fall. 

According to KJZZ, the Siemens Healthineers instrument will be the most powerful FDA-approved 3T MRI in the world optimized for brain imaging. The new instrument, which will double UA’s current research MRI capacity, can rapidly change its magnetic field to boost resolution and scan speed, and to improve real-time brain activity measurements like fMRI.