Contribution of preclinical MRI to responsible animal research: living up to the 3R principle

Affiliations

• ¹ Translational Research Imaging Center, Clinic for Radiology, University Hospital Münster, Albert-Schweitzer Campus 1, 48163, Muenster, Germany.
• ² Swiss 3R Competence Centre, University of Bern, Hochschulstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland.
• ³ European Institute for Molecular Imaging (EIMI), University of Münster, Waldeyerstraße 15, 48149, Munster, Germany.
• ⁴ Univ-Lyon, CarMeN laboratory, Inserm U1060, INRA U1397, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSA Lyon, Charles Mérieux Medical School, 69600, Oullins, France.
• ⁵ Animal Imaging and Technology, EPFL, Station 6, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ⁶ CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging, EPFL, Station 6, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ⁷ Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Calle de Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 280291, Madrid, Spain.
• ⁸ Department of Computer Science, Strada Le Grazie 15, 37134, Verona, Italy.
• ⁹ Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Robert-Roessle-Straße 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁰ Biomedical MRI, Department Imaging and Pathology, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, bus 505, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
• ¹¹ Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, CRMBM UMR 7339, Faculté des Sciences Médicales et Paramédicales la Timone, 13005, Marseille, France.
• ¹² Translational Research Imaging Center, Clinic for Radiology, University Hospital Münster, Albert-Schweitzer Campus 1, 48163, Muenster, Germany. [email protected].