Dean Building
The downtown CT facility is located in the Vivarium of the Dean Building. It houses a Toshiba 32-slice Aquilion CT Scanner that is dedicated to animal imaging. It has a gantry speed of 0.5 seconds and is equipped with cardiac gaiting. All image data is networked to the TeraRecon system for investigators.
32-slice Toshiba Aquilion CT Scanner
0.5mm resolution
32 slices per rotation X .5mm Scanning in high resolution
7.5 mHu Tube
500 mA Capability
VoiceLink System
SureFlouro System
Scan FOV: 18, 24, 32, 40, 50
Helical scanning
Rotation speed: .5, .6, .75, 1.0, 1.5
PF / HP
1.406 / 45
Bore size = 720 mm (500mm maximum FOV)
Can cardiac gate
Have power injector for bolus contrast injection
Siemens microCT Scanner
The microCT facility is located in the Vivarium of the Dean Building and houses the Siemens microCT scanner. It is dedicated to rodent and specimen imaging.
70 mm animal pallet that can be used in microPET and microCT
Dedicated rodent and specimen scanner
Table weight limit = 1000grams (2.2 lbs)
Using .5mm aluminum filter
60 X 90 mm Field of View
80kV maximum
0.5mA
512 X 512, 1024 x 1024, 2048 X 2048 pixels - reconstructed images
18, 36, 72 micron resolution
Reconstruction using COBRA EXXIM verion 4.9.52
Convert raw images into DICOM images using Amira version 3.1
Images are transferred to TeraRecon for analysis
