
Overview
Edinburgh Imaging Preclinical maintains its own web page which you can find, here.
Research
Visitors to this site are welcome to read the University Policy on the Use of Animals in Research.
The University of Edinburgh uses animals only in research programmes of the highest quality, when their use is justified:
- Scientifically
- Ethically
- Legally
- When no alternatives are available
All such work is carried out under licences, which are reviewed & approved by the Home Office in accordance with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
Licences are issued only if the potential benefits of the work are likely to outweigh the effects on the animals concerned.
Equipment
The Preclinical Facility is state-of-the-art providing in vivo, non-invasive imaging of structure & function of all organs & tissues of the body.
Modality | Specification | Manufacturer | Model | EI facility location |
MR | 9.4T | Bruker | BioSpec AVANCE Neo | Preclinical |
PET-CT | Mediso | nanoScan | Preclinical | |
Optical imaging | Biospace | Optima | Preclinical | |
Optical imaging | Bruker | Multispectral Sysem FX | Preclinical | |
Optical imaging | Perkin Elmer | FMT2500 | Preclinical | |
Ultrasound | 770 | VisualSonics' | Vevo | Preclinical |
Ultrasound | VisualSonics' | Vevo3100 | Preclinical |
Useful links
- Please link to the short url for our Edinburgh Imaging Facility preclinical webpage:
Relevant Edinburgh Imaging publications
- 01 Feb 22. Featured Paper. Development of preclinical ultrasound imaging techniques to identify and image sentinel lymph nodes in a cancerous animal model
- 02 Apr 21. Featured Paper. Quantification of macrophage-driven inflammation during myocardial infarction with 18F-LW223, a novel TSPO radiotracer with binding independent of the rs6971 human polymorphism.
- 20 Aug 20. Featured Paper. Progression & regression of left ventricular hypertrophy & myocardial fibrosis in a mouse model of hypertension & concomitant cardiomyopathy.
- 18 Jun 20. Featured Paper. Bone marrow adipose tissue is a unique adipose subtype with distinct roles in glucose homeostasis.
- 06 Feb 20. Featured Paper. Manganese-enhanced T1 mapping to quantify myocardial viability: validation with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography.
- 17 Apr 19. Featured Paper. Analysis of PK11195 concentrations in rodent whole blood & tissue samples by rapid & reproducible chromatographic method to support target-occupancy PET studies.
- 09 Oct 18. Featured Paper. The LKB1–AMPK-α1 signaling pathway triggers hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction downstream of mitochondria.
- Please view all our publications, here