Multi-modality imaging facility

SAIRC belongs to the Radiology Department at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. We performed the small animal scan for more than 5 years on our own facilities, which includes:

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  Burker 7.0T micro MR

  70/16 Bruker PharmaScan. The field strength is 7.05 Tesla and maximal gradient strength is 400mTesla/m. Good for mouse, rat and other small animals

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  Philips 1.5T MRI

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  micro High-Res plain film X-ray

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  Micro-Spect-CT

  Gamma Medica combined CT micro Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT)

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  micro CT

  uCT Skyscan 1172

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  Bioluminescence/Fluorescence imaging

  Xenogen for In Vivo optical imaging using bioluminescence as well as fluorescence imaging