Facilities

Southwest Animal Imaging Resource
Access to state-of-the-art in vivo imaging based on magnetic resonance (MR), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), in vivo bioluminescence and optical coherence tomography (OCT).

AZCC - Confocal Microscopy facility
The Arizona Cancer Center's Nikon PCM 2000 confocal microscope.

AZCC - TACMASS shared service
This shared service offers automated immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization. The lab has quality controlled over 80 human and some rodent antibodies for automated immunstaining. In addition it offers access to a state-of-the-art Arcturus laser capture microdissection system. Contact Kathy McDaniel (626-7319).

Materials Science & Engineering - Electron Microscopy
Of particular interest is MSE's variable pressure Scanning Electron Microscope.

Image analysis

CCIT Scientific Visualization Lab
Computer center 3D reconstruction and visualization lab.

CCIT Multimedia Learning Lab
Computer center lab with access to hardware and software for the manipulation of digital images and videos. Training workshops available for different software packages.

Research Imaging

Center for Gamma Ray Imaging
The overall objective of the Center is to develop new gamma-ray imaging instruments with dramatically improved spatial and temporal resolution and to make them available to a wide community of biomedical and clinical researchers. The collaborative research supported by the center will apply these new imaging tools to basic research in functional genomics, cardiovascular disease and cognitive neuroscience and to research in breast cancer and surgical tumor detection. In addition, the center will make contributions to the emerging science of image quality assessment. (Funded by National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering )

Computed Tomography Imaging Spectrometer (CTIS)
On-going research by members of the Optical Sciences Center.

Fiberoptic Endoscope
Dr. Gmitro's lab has been developing this technology for the last several years.