Alert: Canvas Outage Update
Canvas access has been restored for our users, but the service reliability remains uncertain. Due to recent events, Canvas has had intermittent outages which are at the discretion of the vendor and may occur during a final exam. Faculty and staff may continue to use Canvas, but we strongly advise faculty and students to prepare a contingency plan for turning in assignments and final exams in the event Canvas access becomes unavailable again.
Instructure, the company that owns Canvas, has provided an FAQ about the incident, which may not answer all your questions. We will share more information if it becomes available.
Instructure, the company that owns Canvas, has provided an FAQ about the incident, which may not answer all your questions. We will share more information if it becomes available.
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Animal Imaging and Irradiation Shared Resource (AIISR, RRID: SCR_021980)
The major goal of the animal imaging and irradiation program is the establishment of novel imaging and radiation treatment approaches to cancer, inflammation, developmental therapeutics using animal models and imaging endpoints. State-of-the-art imaging facilities are extremely expensive and require advanced technical personnel. All scientific oversight, protocol development, image analysis, equipment maintenance, quality controls, as well as user training is overseen by Natalie Serkova, PhD (AIISR Director), David Westerly, PhD (AIISR Co-Director) and Tyler Weiskopf, BA (AIISR Manager Manager).
- If you use Cancer Center shared resources, be sure to acknowledge the Cancer Center Support Grant (P30CA046934) and submit your publications to PubMed Central. Thank you!
- For all MRI-based animal studies, please acknowledge the NIH high-end shared instrumentation grant S10OD023485
- For all BLI/FLI/CT animal studies, please acknowledge the NIH SIFAR shared instrumentation grant S10OD027023
- Please link our AIISR Research Resource Identification (RRID): University of Colorado
Our equipment can only accommodate small rodents and our imaging services are for research purposes only. Unfortunately, we cannot perform imaging on companion animals, such as cats and dogs.
AIISR Breaking News
- X-RAD SmART Image-Guided Radiotherapy
- Precision MultiRad350
- Revvity Quantum GX2 microCT
- Siemens Inveon microCT
- Precision SmART+ CT
- Gated lung and thoracic imaging
- Bone and contrast-enhanced soft tissue CT
- High resolution specimen CT
- 9.4T Bruker BioSpec MRI Scanner
- High Resolution Anatomical Imaging
- Inflammation Imaging
- Perfusion, Diffusion and Dynamic Contrast Imaging
- Vessel Size Imaging
- 2 Revvity IVIC Spectrum
- Revvity IVIS Spectrum/CT
- 3D Bioluminescence Imaging (BLI)
- 3D Fluorescence Imaging (FLI)
- Anatomical co-registration with Quantum GX2 microCT
- Siemens Inveon PET
- Mediso SPECT/CT
- 18F, 11C, 89Zr, 64Cu Molecular and Metabolic Tracer Imaging
- SPECT α-Emitter and Peptide Tracer Imaging
- Scintica Prospect T2 ultrasound
- Abdominal, Thyroid, HNSCC cancer volumes
- Tumor vascularity (Dopler, ECC and microbubbles)
- Image-guided cancer cell implantation
- Image-guided percutaneous biopsies
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Natalie Serkova, PhD
Core Director
David Westerly, PhD
Core Co-Director
Tyler Weiskopf, BA
Core Manager
Vadym Zaberezhnyy, MSc
Core Technician
Qing Yuan, PhD
MR Physicist
Rebecca Tarbox, MS
Core Technician
Location:
MRI/Irradiation:
RC1N Vivarium, Suite 1, Rm 0437
PET/SPECT/CT:
RC1N Vivarium, Suite 1, Rm 0434
Optical Imaging/CT:
RC1N Vivarium, Suite 1, Rm 0443
Optical Imaging/Ultrasound:
RC1N Vivarium, Suite 1, Rm 0439
Optical Imaging/CT:
AHSB Vivarium, ABSL2+ Suite, Rm 0210