University of Iowa is in Iowa City, and is 190 miles south of Rochester, MN. The former is soon to have the latest high-performance head gradient coil called MAGNUS, and the latter is the home of the world's first and only compact 3T human scanner made by GE Global Research. I travelled to both places in the past week. The biomedical building of Univ. of Iowa, called Papajohn Biomedical Discovery Building, is similar in many ways to the N Center in SKKU, albeit at a larger scale. It was built in 2014 with private and state funding, and houses a Neuroscience research center and a Biomedical imaging center, along with a few others related to medical research. Its MR Research Facility (https://medicine.uiowa.edu/mri/equipment-information) has Signa 7T and Premier 3T human MRI scanners (both by GE), as well as a 7T animal MRI scanner. Hopefully the new MAGNUS installation will further strengthen the Iowa-GE research partnership.
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