{"id":6100,"date":"2015-09-22T23:29:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T23:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cpp.uwhistologyandimaging.org\/?page_id=6100"},"modified":"2015-11-15T22:56:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T22:56:24","slug":"metabolic-testing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.cpp.uwhistologyandimaging.org\/?page_id=6100","title":{"rendered":"Quantitative Magnetic Resonance (QMR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>Quantitative Magnetic Resonance (QMR)<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b>Introduction<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Body Fat versus Lean Mass can be measured by QMR which quantifies tissue mass by measuring nuclear magnetic resonance signals (voltage) proportional to total number of hydrogen nuclei, their relaxations times, and diffusion coefficients. \u00a0The QMR instrument manufactured by Echo medical Systems, Houston, Texas, is a non-invasive means to measure body composition in a conscious mouse. \u00a0The mouse is placed in a sample holder and then inserted into the center of the magnetic resonance machine. \u00a0A single measurement takes 2 minutes. \u00a0A mouse is subjected to 3 to 5 replicate measurements during a typical experiment. \u00a0The metrics include body mass, percent lean body mass, percent fat mass, and bone mass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Prices and Guarantees<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All charges are based on tech time at $59.40 per hour per technician<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The investigator is responsible for cage per diem costs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All procedures must be approved on the requesting investigator\u2019s protocol.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All IVS personnel performing any procedure will need to be listed on the requesting investigator\u2019s approved protocol. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please contact the IVS Program Manager, <a href=\"mailto: bhunter@uw.edu\">Bob Hunter<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0to review your project.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantitative Magnetic Resonance (QMR)<\/p>\n<p>Introduction<\/p>\n<p>Body Fat versus Lean Mass can be measured by QMR which quantifies tissue mass by measuring nuclear magnetic resonance signals (voltage) proportional to total number of hydrogen nuclei, their relaxations times, and diffusion coefficients. \u00a0The QMR instrument manufactured by Echo medical Systems, Houston, Texas, is a non-invasive means to measure body composition in a conscious mouse. \u00a0The mouse is placed in a sample holder and then inserted into the center of the magnetic resonance machine. \u00a0A single measurement takes 2 minutes. \u00a0A mouse is subjected to 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6159,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar-left.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cpp.uwhistologyandimaging.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cpp.uwhistologyandimaging.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cpp.uwhistologyandimaging.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cpp.uwhistologyandimaging.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cpp.uwhistologyandimaging.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6100"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.cpp.uwhistologyandimaging.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6215,"href":"http:\/\/www.cpp.uwhistologyandimaging.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6100\/revisions\/6215"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cpp.uwhistologyandimaging.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cpp.uwhistologyandimaging.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}