The MRI facility, as one of the core facilities of ICPBR, is dedicated to the advancement of neuroscience research with an emphasis on understanding the biological basis of consciousness. It is currently equipped with two 7T Bruker preclinical scanners: a Bruker BioSpec 70/40 USR scanner and a Bruker BioSpec 70/30 USR scanner. It is therefore capable of performing high-throughput preclinical imaging and biomedical imaging on animals ranging from rodents to non-human primates (NHP). The facility is supported by a staff of highly competent technical engineers who offer services such as experimental consultation, equipment training, image acquisition, post-processing, and data analysis. Tingting SHAO, PhD, was recruited to manage the facility. The goal of the ICPBR MRI Facility is to create a supportive environment promoting research on any and all neuroscience-related topics.

At the NHP facility area is our Bruker 7T scanner with a bore of 40 cm inner diameter (I.D.), an actively shielded gradient system of 26.0 cm I.D. and 230 mT/m gradient strength, and a shimming system of up to full second-order shim channels. It has eight RF parallel receiver channels, zero helium boil-off technology, nitrogen-free, Ultra Shielded and Refrigerated (USR) magnet technology. It is capable of supporting non-human primate (NHP) studies and is the first such system installed in China.

At the rodent facility area is the Bruker 70/30 USR scanner. It has a bore of 30 cm inner diameter (I.D.) with a 20.5 cm I.D. actively shielded gradient system (200 mT/m) for conventional imaging and a 12 cm I.D. high strength gradient (400 mT/m) insert for micro imaging.  It operates at a magnetic field of 7.0 Tesla (300.3 MHz), has zero helium boil-off technology, nitrogen-free, Ultra Shielded and Refrigerated (USR) magnet technology.