In March 2009, the weizmann institute had acquired a small animal in-vivo micro CT imaging scanner for non-invasive pre-clinical applications.
TomoScope ® 30S Duo
Micro-CT offers spatial resolutions better than 100 m. It ranges balances between short scan times, good low-contrast and high resolution. The scanner is fully shielded and can be operated in any laboratory environment. Radiation dose and signal-to-noise-ratio in the images can be optimized by employing pre-filtering of the beam. The motorized patient table is prepared to support online monitoring of the animal life support sensors.
- Desktop micro-CT cone-beam scanner
- Rotating gantry with stationary object (slipring technology)
- Two source-detector systems
- Integrated radiation shielding
- Object diameter: 40mm
- Single scan length:37mm
- 1s to 90s effective scan time
- Dual energy scans
Spatial reconstruction algorithms offer material selective dual-energy images and therefore allow investigation of new contrast mechanisms. The software runs under Windows XP and Vista.
- High speed cone-beam reconstruction < 8 min (5123 voxels from 720 projections of 10242 pixels)
- Floating point precision
- Arbitary matrix and voxel size
- Various recontraction filters