Facilities & Equipment
The facilities and equipment are listed in their physical locations below, but these are core facilities and are accessible to all the imaging researchers in London. Facility abbrevations are listed at the bottom of the page.
Computed Tomography (CT)
| Description | Location |
| GE Healthcare Discovery CT 750 HD (high resolution, dual energy 64-slice CT scanner) | Lawson |
| GE VCT 64-slice CT scanner (2) | LHSC |
| GE Light Speed Plus CT Scanner | LHSC |
| GE OX Ultra CT Scanner | LHSC |
| Medtronic “O-arm” portable cone-beam CT scanner | Robarts |
| CSCT (coherent scatter computed tomography unit) (2) | Robarts |
| GE eXplore Locus Ultra - micro-CT system for whole body mouse in 16 seconds with a resolution of 180 μm | Robarts |
| GE eXplore Locus Live animal micro-CT scanner | Robarts |
| GE eXplore Locus SP - Ex vivo specimen micro-CT scanner with isotropic resolution of 10μm | Robarts |
| GE eXplore CT 120 - live animal micro CT scanner capable of gated CT imaging | Robarts |
| Megavoltage CT scanner (on tomotherapy unit) | LRCP |
| Cone-Beam CT scanner (on linacs) | LRCP |
| GE Revolution 256 slice CT scanner | Lawson |
Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
| Description | Location |
| SPECT/CT (4) | Lawson LHSC SJHC |
| SPECT (12) | LHSC SJHC |
| GE MicroSPECT/CT | Robarts |
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
| Description | Location |
| Siemens BIOGRAPH mMR whole body 3T PET/MRI with a range of 32-channel and multinuclear RF coils, fMRI support equipment and 128-channel EEG system | Lawson |
| GE Healthcare Discovery VCT PET/CT scanner | Lawson |
| Cubresa NuPET MR-compatible PET insert for small animal 3T PET/MRI | Lawson |
| Siemens Inveon small animal PET system | Lawson |
| GE eXplore VISTA small animal PET system | Lawson |
| VPixx TrackPixx PET/MRI-compatible eye tracker (installed at Lawson 3.0 Tesla PET/MRI facility) | Lawson |
| Swisstrace Twilite MR-compatible PET blood sampling system | Lawson |
| Preclinical PET/3T MRI system | ImPaKT |
Magnetic Resonance (MR)
| Description | Location |
| 1.5T MRI (5 total - SJHC [2], UH [1], VH [2]) | SJHC LHSC |
| 3-T Siemens Prisma 64 channel whole body MRI with full neuro and MSK RF coil sets | Robarts |
| 3-Tesla GE 750 MR whole body imager | Robarts |
| 7-T Siemens Magnetom Step 2.3, 8 channel transmit/32 channel receive human head MRI | Robarts |
| 9.4-Tesla 31cm bore Varian animal MR imager with a range of rf coils | Robarts |
| Low field (up to 0.1T) animal MR imaging system | Robarts |
| Turn-key helium Helispin polarizer/polarimeter units for respiratory MR imaging (2) | Robarts |
| Clinical 129-xenon polarizers (2) | Robarts |
| HyperSense 13C DNP Polarizer (Oxford Instruments) | Robarts |
| VIDA Diagnostics PW2 workstation | Robarts |
| Stelar Spinmaster FFC2000 1T C/DC Relaxometer (0 to 1T) for nuclear magnetic resonance dispersion measurement | Robarts |
| Stelar MRIn Relaxometer (± 0.25T around field strength of a clinical scanner) for nuclear magnetic resonance dispersion measurement) | Robarts |
Magnetic Field Exposure Facilities for Bioelectromagnetics (BEMS)
| Description | Location |
| Animal exposure (2 systems, one within animal care facility) | Lawson |
| Human MF exposure (3 systems, 80 mT head-only vertical, 80 mT local/cortical, 100 mT local/vestibular | Lawson |
| NeuroElectrics Starstim tDCS-tACS system | Lawson |
| One single pulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) | Lawson |
| Human magnetic field shielded facility | Lawson |
| MF Shielded and sham-MR Shielded enclosures | Lawson |
| Electroencephalography facilities | Lawson |
| 128 Channel fMRI/EEG system | Lawson |
| Two 64 Channel EEG/ERP systems | Lawson |
| Two 32 Channel Ambulatory EEG systems and 16 Channel EEG system | Lawson |
| Neurophysiological testing facilities and Neurosensory analyzer | Lawson |
| Two 16 channel Polhemus Ambulatory Position Monitoring Systems | Lawson |
| Micro Laser Sensor - Finger Tremor Monitor | Lawson |
| Force Plate Postural Sway Monitor, and Temp, Skin Resistance, Environmental Monitors | Lawson |
| Vestibular Lab including an Vestibular Chair from Interaccoustics and a Gaitlab from BTS | Lawson |
Cyclotron and Radiochemistry
| Description | Location |
| GE PETtrace 8 cyclotron (16.5 MeV) | Lawson |
| Comecer hot cell chambers (11) | Lawson |
| ARTMS high current solid target station, transfer system and target processing | Lawson |
| GE FASTlab synthesizer units (3) | Lawson |
| GE TRACERlab synthesizer units (3) | Lawson |
| Neptis Perform synthesizer unit | Lawson |
| Synthra synthesizer unit | Lawson |
| GMP facilities with production area, clean room and QC area | Lawson |
| Shipping room | Lawson |
| Digital multi-isotope autoradiographic system, sample holders, compression plate, work station and flat panel, Beavacq tuning sets | Lawson |
| Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory for the design and synthesis of receptor-targeting chemical entities, automated solid-phase synthesis, purification and characterization of imaging probes. | LRCP |
| Radiochemistry Laboratory used in the preparation of novel molecular imaging probes. Radiolabelling of small molecules, peptides and larger biomolecules for SPECT and PET imaging for human and small animal imaging | LRCP |
Optical Imaging
| Description | Location |
| Steroscopic particle image velocimetry (PIV) and flow visualization system | Western (Physics) |
| Bioluminescence/fluorescence whole animal scanners | Robarts |
| IVIS Lumina XRMS scanner | Robarts |
| 2-photon confocal microscope | ImPaKT |
| IVIS Spectrum CT | ImPaKT |
| Multi-channel near infrared (NIR) intravital spinning disk confocal microscope for imaging of human cancer in small animal models | VRL |
| Olympus FluoViewTM FV1000 Confocal Imaging System built on the IX81 Motorized Inverted System Microscope (IX2 Series) platform o Imaging laser lines: 405/458/488/515/559/635 nm. 10X, 20X, 40, 60X oil, 100X oil. Epifluorescence and DIC (Nomarski) illumination o Support infrastructure for live imaging: maintaining desired CO2 level and temperature during live imaging; drug perfusion system with perfusion chambers for cultured cells and embryos o Image analysis workstation for analysis of confocal images with software: Image-Pro Analyzer (version 6.2, Media Cybernetics) and FV 10-ASW 1.6 (FluoView 1000 software, Olympus corporation) |
VRL |
| LaVision Picostar gated camera system | Lawson |
| Continuum Surelite pulsed lasers with visible and NIR OPO tunability | Lawson |
| Opotek Rainbow NIR tunable pulsed laser | Lawson |
| Polaris 1064nm Nd:Yag pulsed laser | Lawson |
| Multimagnetics 64 channel parallel data acquistion systems | Lawson |
| P&P Optica imaging spectrometers | Lawson |
| Commercial (Olympus) and custom ultrasound transducer arrays | Lawson |
| Beckman and PTI analytical absorbance/fluorescence/luminescence spectrometers | Lawson |
| Photometrics and Roper scientific EMCCD and CCD camer systems | Lawson |
| Nikon A1R confocal microscope and anaylsis workstation | Lawson |
| GE eXplore Optix small animal fluorescent imager | LRCP |
| Optical CT scanners (dosimetry and education) | Robarts |
Ultrasound
| Description | Location |
| Diagnostic ultrasound machines (10) | Robarts |
| 3D ultrasound imaging systems for vascular diseases, prostate and breast cancer research (6) | Robarts |
| Research enabled Ultrasonix Ultrasound machines (2) | Robarts |
| Research enabled Ultrasonix Ultrasound machine | Physics |
| VisualSonics micro-ultrasound imaging and Doppler blood flow facility with a resolution of 60μm (2) | Robarts |
| VisualSonics micro-ultrasound imaging for detection and assessment of growth and treatment of primary and metastatic tumours in animal models | VRL |
| Resonant Ultrasound Image Guidance Systems (3) | LRCP |
| Varian Sonoray Ultrasound Image Guidance Systems (2) | LRCP |
| Phillips IU-22 diagnostic ultrasound (2) | SPARC |
| Philips iE-33 3-D trans-esophogeal ultrasound | Robarts |
| Spencer transcranial Doppler machine | SPARC |
| FUS instrument focused ultrasound unit | Lawson |
Electroencephalography (EEG)
| Description | Location |
| 3-bedroom sleep laboratory equipped with three 32-channel Embla Titanium ambulatory/in-lab EEG systems for polysomnography | BMI |
| 32-channel Embla Titanium ambulatory/portable EEG systems for polysomnography | BMI |
| 64-channel brain products MR-compatible EEG system and 16-channel MR-compatible bipolar system for polysomnography | BMI |
| 129-channel Electrical Geodesics Inc (EGI) EEG system | BMI |
| MRI-compatible 129-channel EGI EEG system | BMI |
| EGI photogrammetry system for electrode co-registration | BMI |
| 64-channel Biosemi ActiveTwo EEG system | BMI |
| 16-channel gtec gUSBamp EEG system | BMI |
| 128-channel fMRI/EEG system | Lawson |
| 64-channel EEG/ERP system (2) | Lawson |
| 32-channel ambulatory EEG system and 16-channel EEG system (2) | Lawson |
Imaging analysis hardware and software
| Description | Location |
| Neuroimaging analysis CPU/GPU cluster (256 cores; 32TB of storage) | BMI |
| Cloud-based CPU/GPU neuroimaging cluster with limitlessly-scalable number of compute nodes and storage (evaluated to 900 cores and 20TB, winner of 2013 Human Brain Mapping Hackathon Challenge) | BMI |
| Founding partner in SharcNET | BMI |
| fMRI, diffusion imaging, morphometry analysis software | Western (Computer Science) |
| Our parallel computing automatic analysis pipeline software, currently also in use and under development at multiple sites internationally (UK, US, Netherlands, Hungary; www.github.com/rhodricusack/automaticanalysis) | BMI |
| Real-time imaging analysis and quality assurance system (64 local cores, streams data to an IBM cloud supercomputer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F87rB0c6Is) | BMI |
| BrainVoyagerQX license (20) | BMI |
| Matlab unlimited-seat site license with all toolboxes | Western |
Other Facilities
| Description | Location |
| Fully equipped Prototyping Facility including CAD/CAM design programs (RhinoCad, AutoCad, EdgeCam) to build digital and analog circui7ts. | Lawson |
| Fully equpped Rapid Prototyping facility with 3D scanning, CNC mills and 3D printers | Lawson |
| 3D Printer (Plastic Rapid prototyping facility) | Robarts |
| Cryoviz - 3D high resolution small animal digital cryotome | Robarts |
| Selective laser melting system (3D Systems DM125) (first in Canada) | Robarts |
| Measuring microscope - Olympus MM400 | Robarts |
| Material testing equipment (Instron 3343) | Robarts |
| Fully equipped machine shop with two NC mills | Robarts |
| Electronic, RF coil, and gradient coil shops for building prototypes | Robarts |
| Autostereoscopic 3D display system | Robarts |
| Stereoscopic Laparoscopic system | Robarts |
| 3D Histology workstations | Robarts |
| Optics lab with in vivo confocal and intrinsic signal optical microscopes | Robarts |
| Optical and magnetic tracking equipment and haptic controllers for surgical and therapy guidance | Robarts |
| Augmented reality workstations (2) | Robarts |
| Simulated High Altitude Chamber with neurobehavioral and cognitive test batteries | Lawson |
| Shadow shield whole body counter with a motorized bed and using an array of 3- 3” NaI detectors plus 1- HPGe 85mm x 32.6mm coaxial detector. | Lawson |
| Fully equipped digital histology room with surgical suite for small animals, Leica ASP300 Tissue Processor, Leica Microtome RM2235, Zeiss Histological Imaging Microscope with Nikon Digital Camera DXM1200 and America Optical Histostat Tissue Embedder (Paraffin) | Western (Medical Biophysics) |
| Magstim Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator | BMI |
| Polaris infrared motion-tracking camera (Northern Digital, Waterloo, Canada) with Brainsight frameless stereotaxic software (Rogue Research, Montreal, Canada) | BMI |
| Fourier transform profilometer (Opton Co, Seto, Aichi, Japan) | Western (Fac. Science) |
| ERG - electroretinography: Diagnosis Colordome (Espion) | Western (Fac. Science) |
| Ocular Coherence Tomography [OCT] Zeiss Visante OCT Anterior segment imaging | Western (Fac. Science) |
| Spectralis OCT | Western (Fac. Science) |
Locations
ImPaKt: Imaging Pathogens for Knowledge Translation Facility
Lawson: Lawson Health Research Institute
LHSC: London Health Sciences Centre
LRCP: London Regional Cancer Program
Robarts: Robarts Research Institute
SJHC: St. Joseph's Health Care London
SPARC: Stroke Prevention & Atherosclerosis Research Centre
VRL: Victoria Research Laboratories
