The overall mission of the UW Small Animal Imaging Facility is to provide innovative state-of-the-art, affordable, noninvasive, high-resolution in-vivo and ex-vivo imaging support to University of Wisconsin investigators and cancer center members who utilize small animal models in their research.

The facility director in conjunction with the micro-IRAT provide consultation with investigators about imaging methodologies most suited to answer their biological questions.  Suggestions typically include which modality(s) may be the most appropriate, whether or not contrast agents will provide additional information and if so which ones are most appropriate, the degree of spatial resolution needed, choice of anesthesia, timing of scanning, inclusion of appropriate controls, and statistical relevance.  Investigators are able to select various levels of support ranging from image acquisition alone, to acquisition and reconstruction, to image interpretation and finally to media presentation. 

It is our intent to acquire the data set and then to educate the investigators to be able to work up and interpret the images on their own. We provide Amira (v4.1, TGS, Inc, San Diego, CA) based workstations operating on a 64-bit Windows platform (XP Pro-64) which is both user friendly and extremely powerful in terms of 2- and 3-D image viewing, manipulation, and quantitative analysis of large files. We have a Siemens Inveon Research Workplace 3D image image fusion and analysis workstation.  This state-of-the-art workstation, which is based on a 64-bit/16GB RAM Windows platform, permits sophisticated 3-D visualization and manipulation of multiple data sets in a single image as well as analysis of static, gated, and dynamic data as well as output in DICOM format for use with other imaging platforms.

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Contact Information:

Faculty Advisors:
Jamey P. Weichert 
(608) 265-0835

Beth Meyerand
(608) 263-1685


Lab Contacts and Location

UW - Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research
WIMR-B1335
Lab phone number: (608) 263-0959

Lab Contacts:
PET/CT: Justin Jeffery (608) 263-0959
MRI: Beth Rauch (608) 262-0967

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