The IRL houses approximately $20 million of state-of-the-art imaging and engineering equipment required to carry out leading edge medical imaging research. The facilities include well-equipped machine, electronic and rf gradient coil shops used by technical staff and students to build or prototype their equipment. All laboratory equipment is utilized and operated in a collaborative manner so that all faculty and students have access to multi-modality research pathways in their research programs. Research equipment includes
- 1.5-Tesla GE cardiac-optimized MR whole body imager
- 3-Tesla Siemens Tim Trio whole body imager
- 3-Tesla GE 750 whole body imager
- 7-Tesla Varian/Siemens human head MRI System
- 9.4-Tesla 31cm bore Varian animal MR imager with a range of rf coils
- Low field (up to 0.1 T) animal MR imaging system.
- 2 Turn-key helium Helispin polarizer/polarimeter units for respiratory MR imaging
- C13 Hypersense DNP Polarizer
- VIDA Diagnostics PW2 Workstation
- 2 CSCT (coherent scatter computed tomography) units
- Medtronic “O-arm” portable cone-beam CT scanner
- Coherent scatter CT scanner
- GE eXplore Locus Ultra - dynamic slip-ring mounted micro-CT system capable of whole body mouse scans in scans as short as 16 seconds, as well as perfusion and retrospectively gated imaging with a resolution of 180µm<
- GEeXploreLocus Live animal micro-CT scanner capable of regional murine scans with a resolution of 20µm
- GEeXploreLocus SP - Ex vivo specimen micro-CT scanner capable of an isotropic resolution of 10µm
- A dynamic micro-CT system capable of 2s whole mouse scans with a resolution of 120µm
- GE eXplore CT 120 - live animal micro CT scanner capable of gated CT imaging and high throughput 50-100µm scans
- 5 Diagnostic ultrasound machines
- 6 3D ultrasound imaging systems for vascular diseases, prostate and breast cancer research
- 2 Research enabled Ultrasonix Ultrasound machines.
- 2 Biomicroscopy (Micro-US) units. One is a VisualSonics Vevo 770 Micro-US system utilizing mechanically scanned probes capable of real-time (up to 70 images per second) 2D imaging with resolution as fine as 80 microns. The other is a VisualSonics Vevo 2100 Micro-US system. This system utilizes a linear array system and has is capable of 2D frame rates up to 200 images/s and 3D image acquisition in 5-10s with a Doppler blood flow facility with a resolution of 60µm
- Siemens Neurostar rotational digital angiographic system capable of 4s 3D CT
- Optics lab with in vivo confocal and intrinsic signal optical microscopes
- One 24 and one 64 processor SGI Altix Supercomputers
- Optical and magnetic tracking equipment and haptic controllers for surgical and therapy guidance
- Autostereoscopic 3D display system
- Stereoscopic Laparoscopic system
- 3D Histology workstations
- Computer network connecting the IRL to LHSC and Western
- Machine, electronic, RF coil, and gradient coil shops for building equipment prototypes
- Virtual workbenches for surgery and therapy simulation
Computer Resources:
- Imaging Lab System Page
Local documentation and policy notes - Imaging Lab Coders Web Site
Local programming environment guides and links to programming resources.