Fee Information
Initial scan to establish feasibility on a single animal is free of charge (up to 30 minutes). (Note that contrast agents and non-standard scanning supplies will be billed separately and will have to be purchased for free scans.) After the initial free scan, the following rates apply:
- UW Users: $100/hour Ultrasound Imaging, $137/hour Photoacoustic Imaging (Anesthesia & Supply Charge included)
- Commercial/Non UW Users: $230/hour Ultrasound Imaging, $310/hour Photoacoustic Imaging**
- Data Analysis: $50-125/hour, Contact the Image Analysis Core for more information
** Non UW user costs include indirect costs, currently at 53%.
Scan rates will be evaluated every six months per the rules of operation of core facilities.
Potential Users of the System
PIs in Oncology, Neurobiology, Developmental Biology, Cardiology, Stroke/Ischemia, Diabetes, Nanoparticle Detection & Quantification
System Capabilities
- Acquire ultrasound alone or in conjunction with photoacoustic imaging
- Quantification of oxygen saturation and hemoglobin content
- Microvascular hemodynamics in real-time
- Molecular and cellular imaging
- Spectral functionality/unmixing for characterization of photoacoustic signal (680 – 970nm)
- Vevo Multiplexer tool to detect signal from multiple sources and co-register to anatomy
- High sensitivity, high specificity, real-time 3D volumetric imaging
- 3D Thresholding for optimized signal intensity during data analysis
- Vevo Color for differentiating various targets
- Longitudinal tumor imaging for therapeutic/drug studies
- In vivo nanoparticle and microbubble imaging
- Automatic co-registration of photoacoustic signal to anatomic ultrasound target
- Real-time, in vivo imaging of deep tissue
- High resolution: 30 μm
- 3D imaging with respiration gating
Users of the system are requested to acknowledge the S10-OD018505 National Institutes of Health grant utilized to purchase this imaging system in any publication that results, in whole or in part, from data acquired with this system.