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 gating. All image data is networked to the TeraRecon systems for investigators.
32-slice Toshiba Aquilion CT Scanner
- 32 slices per rotation @ 0.5mm using high resolution scanning mode
- 7.5 mHu Tube
- 500 mA Capability
- VoiceLink System
- SureFlouro System
- Minimum pixel Size: 0.35 mm
- Scan FOV: 18, 24, 32, 40, 50
- Helical and axial mode scanning
- Rotation speed: .5, .6, .75, 1.0, 1.5
- PF / HP
- 1.406 / 45
- Bore size = 720 mm (500mm maximum FOV)
- Table weight limit = 450 lb.
- Cardiac gating capabilities
- Power injector used for bolus contrast injection