Resources

Equipment

Equipment Name Description
Anesthesia and Workspace Counts radioactivity of multiple samples 1 at a time.
Bruker 7T MRI The Bruker 7T MRI scanner is located in the Hillman Cancer Center animal facility. The 7 Tesla 30-cm USR magnet is equipped with Bruker BGA-12s gradient set capible of 400 mT/m gradient strength.
Cryostat A cryostat is a specialized refrigerated device that maintains a constant, ultra-low temperature environment to freeze, preserve, and slice biological tissue samples or cool scientific equipment
FMT2500 3D tomographic fluorescence imaging.
Gamma Counter A gamma counter is a specialized laboratory instrument used to measure gamma radiation and X-rays emitted from small, sealed test tubes or vials containing radioactive samples
Hillman Gallium Generator The Gallium Generator can produce small amounts of gallium-68 from its germanium core source. This specific generator is ideal for test labelings, animal imaging, or biodistribution studies with 4 mice or less.
Image Analysis Workstations  There are currently 3 image analysis workstations in Hillman G.12 Office. IRW is avaliable on the PC and Mac workstations. Living image is avalible on the IVIS PC and Mac Workstations.
Inveon PET/CT scanner Radioactive emission scan provides the location and density of a radioactively tagged molecule, nanoparticle, drugs, chemical, antibody, or receptor targeting agent in 3 dimensions at any time post injection.
IVIF Technician Time
IVIS Lumina X5 The IVIS Lumina X5 is a compact benchtop system that combines high-sensitivity optical imaging with high-resolution X-ray for small animal research. 
IVIS Lumina XR Standard 2D X-Ray of full field of view that can be registered with bioluminescence or fluorescence in place of photograph for physiological reference.
IVIS200 This Calendar is offline because the IVIS200 is currently out of order. Please contact Kate Day (ked63@pitt.edu ) for information on the IVIS Lumina.
Radio HPLC Radio-HPLC (Radio-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography) is an analytical laboratory technique that separates and measures radioactive compounds labeled with isotopes like carbon-14, tritium, or fluorine-18.
Radiochemistry Lab Radiochemistry lab specialized to safely handle, analyze, and synthesize radioactive materials.
VisualSonics Vevo770 Utlrasound The VisualSonics Vevo 770 is a high-resolution micro-ultrasound system designed for non-invasive, in vivo research on small animals.