Figure 1.
A custom-made 3D printed rat restraint kit (A), a rat restrained in the bed with the developed restraint kit (B), and a restrained rat in the bed with a Bruker quadrature receiver coil attached (C). The rat restraint kit (A) consists of a standard Bruker rat bed (A1), a padded shoulder/neck support (A2), a sliding sledge including a bite bar (A3), padded cheek supports (A4), and a padded nose cone (A5). A replicate of Bruker bed was used in mock scanner.