MICRO-Computed Tomography
- CMI has an ImTek Micro-Computer Aided Tomography (mCAT) system.
Unlike conventional medical computed tomography systems which have
spatial resolutions on the order of 1-2 mm, mCAT employs detectors with
intrinsic resolutions less than 0.05 mm and produces reconstructed
images with spatial resolutions less than 0.1 mm. With mCAT, researchers
are able to study the skeleton and internal organs of mice with the
same relative accuracy available to physicians studying human anatomy.
This high-resolution system will also be an ideal platform for
pre-clinical testing of novel contrast media as well as a valuable
resource for investigators studying diverse fields ranging from bone
injury and repair to the morphology of transgenic mice. Additionally,
because of the novel detector design employed by the mCAT system,
researchers will soon be able to simultaneously acquire fully
registered x-ray and nuclear medicine images of the same subject.