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eXplore CT 120
The eXplore CT 120 pre-clinical x-ray CT scanner is a performance high-throughput small animal scanner designed for high quality scanning for the widest variety of applications. It is designed to visualize, quantify, and characterize anatomical parameters in small animals such as mice and rats. Its table design, versatile bed mount and built-in software support allows image registration with other imaging modalities.
The all-new hardware and software of the eXplore series of scanners achieves 2-4x the throughput of traditional micro-CT systems.
The CT 120 can perform prospectively-gated respiratory and cardiac imaging with extremely high precision, to reduce motion artifacts in the heart and thorax. The system includes shielded ports for ventilation tubing, anesthetic gases, or monitoring hardware.
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Features |
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- Rapid scans facilitated by a 5 kW pulsed high-output x-ray tube
- Application flexibility enabled by adjustable imaging parameters:
Tube potential 70-120 kV, current up to 50 mA, exposure time as short
as 8 ms
- Rodent cardiac imaging made possible by less than 1 millisecond pulse
precision, capable of capturing over 600 beats per minute
- Multi-modality support built-in for hybrid imaging
- X-ray filtering reduces animal dose, decreases image artifacts
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Image courtesy of
Dr. P. Choquet Hôpital de Hautepierre, Strasbourg,
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Benefits |
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- High performance, high throughput CT
- Large 3D volume imaging
- Optimized for mouse and rat imaging
- Low dose ECG-gated cardiac imaging
- Respiratory-gated imaging
- High quality, low-artifact images
- Excellent soft tissue contrast
- Low bone artifacts
- Compatibility throughout the eXplore series of imaging systems for
seamless PET and SPECT co-registration
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Applications |
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Cardiovascular disease:
image stenosis, vascular disease and development, injury/repair, vessel
geometry and the effects of therapy
Cardiac imaging:
quantify wall thickness, ventricular volume, ejection fraction, and
cardiac output
Respiratory disease: visualize and
quantify airway structures and vasculature of the lungs, measurement
of bronchial thickness
Phenotyping: characterize anatomical differences
in tissue, organ, vascular, and skeletal formation in normal or transgenic
models
Oncology: differentiate normal
tissues from tumors through analysis of angiogenic parameters, measure
solid tumor volumes, and quantify metastases
Body composition:
contrast segmentation of soft tissue from fat to perform fat analysis
Bone disease: assess disease development through volumetric
bone density measurements, cortical bone parameters and anatomical
changes
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Images courtesy of Timothy Doyle, Stanford Small Animal Imaging Facility
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