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animal imaging in this portion of the shared resource is large animal imaging so that would include CT or computed tomography magnetic resonance imaging or MRI nuclear scintigraphy ultrasound and planar radiography since we are working with large animal models these are our client owned animals that have spontaneous tumors so we can provide researchers with access to human imaging capacity to look at animal tumors that are very similar to those that we find in people unlike mouse models which are induced tumors these tumors biologically behave very similarly to a tumor that might happen any human being we can use imaging to identify and then monitor changes in these tumors over time or during the course of therapy in a way that would occur very similarly in human eyes we have on staff seven or certified veterinary radiologists and what that allows for is the expertise to interpret the images by veterinary radiologist some people who are familiar with the animal anatomy and animals specific neoplasm so particularly in regards to tumors of the central nervous system MRI is is the definitely than imaging modality to you CT is an x-ray based technology but it provides excellent anatomic detail for looking at different tissue types from the MRI it's very useful for evaluating lung tissue and in cancer imaging that's very important for looking for metastatic disease or even primary lung tumors and then it is very useful for evaluating the musculoskeletal system and particularly skeletal structures nuclear sidhu graffia is a very different imaging modality for most of the others while it does provide some anatomic information what's most interesting about it is the ability to define function of different tissues so that might be the thyroid gland it might be regions of blood flow it might be areas of very subtle bone turnover either small fractures or in the case of cancer imaging that might include metastases to bone that are not detectable in any other way right now we're engaged in a project with one of our oncologic surgeons at the veterinary school using cryotherapy to treat primary bone tumors in and the project that this particular researcher is involved with is using CT to identify the bone lesion and then to insert the cryoprobe the treatment probe into the lesion under CT guidance apply the cold therapy and CT has the ability to look for specific changes in the tissue quality to know that we have achieved the appropriate level of therapy and extent of therapy and have treated the pill tonight so the animal imaging shared resources composed of two components the center for molecular and genomic imaging and the Center for imaging sciences the center for molecular and genomic imaging deals with small animals rodents typically mice and rats a lot of the cancer models are in mice and that's the type of animals that we deal with similar to the clinical arena for imaging humans we can image small animals in order to understand human disease for positron emission tomography PET imaging we need to have radio pharmaceuticals that we can inject into the animals and we have facilities for doing that we have a biomedical cyclotron and radio chemistry hot cells in which we can produce the radio pharmaceuticals so in the spectrum of technologies for animal imaging we have optical imaging as well optical imaging can be a low cost of method for investigating animal models by the introduction either io luminescent pro or a fluorescent probe besides optical imaging and nuclear medicine imaging we also have MRI imaging magnetic resonance imaging very similar to the clinical imaging technique that's used on humans it does span into the functional and physiological imaging in that we can do this magnetic resonance spectroscopy to understand a little bit about the underlying biology of the anatomy for researchers just beginning on in vivo imaging we do provide services besides the technologies themselves we can also help with studies design image analysis and grant writing and publication writing you