MRI developer Bruker Daltonics of Billerica, MA, has been selected by the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) at Florida State University in Tallahassee to design and build the world's first 21-tesla Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) magnet.
The contract for the magnet is valued at more than $10 million. The National Science Foundation is funding the project, with magnet delivery scheduled for the first half of 2013.
The magnet will be designed in collaboration with NHMFL scientists and will be used in the FT-ICR program at the lab.
FT-ICR -- the highest resolution mass spectrometer available -- is designed to analyze extremely complex mixtures, including petroleum and metabolites, and to characterize large biological molecules, such as proteins.
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