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 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
• .656 / 21
• .844 / 27 
• 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

 

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. 

 

Siemens microCT Scanner

• 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 0.5mm aluminum filter 
• 60 X 90 mm Field of View 
• 80kV and 0.5mA maximum 
• 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 
• Convertion of raw images into DICOM images using Amira version 3.1 
• Images are transferred in DICOM format to TeraRecon for analysis