The Small Animal Molecular Imaging Facility
Contact: Mathew Thakur, Director
Jefferson Alumni Hall, Room 474
215-503-7874, 215-503-1750
http://www.jefferson.edu/content/dam/tju/iacuc/SOP%20SmallAnimalMolecularImagingFacilit
yProcedures.pdf
Mission, Goals, Capabilities
The mission of SAMIF is to facilitate the basic and translational
research in which usage of small animals plays a prominent
role. Facilitate can monitor and record biological interactions at
molecular and cellular level in a living system and thereby allow
longitudinal studies in the same species.
These animals can serve as their own controls and allow
investigators to monitor molecular interactions in vivo that may
up regulate or down regulate disease processes.
Goal: Goal of this facility is to provide the range of small animal
imaging services to evaluate the different radiotracers and
imaging agents in mice and rats models.
Major Equipment
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Services
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Dedicated PET Scanner (Positron emission tomography)
MicroSPECT (Single photon emission computerized
tomography)
MicroCAT II (Computerized tomography)
Optical Imaging
Multimodal imaging protocols for Oncology,
Cardiology and Neurology
Provides state-of-the-art in vivo molecular imaging
Optical imaging with high resolution digital x-ray
Bone density
Studying patho-physiology and genesis of cancer.
Evaluation of radiotracers and imaging agents
Data analysis, quantification, region of interest
(ROI), data interpretation.
Comprehensive imaging services