The purpose of SWAIR is to provide base grants and the cancer research community with integrated access to state-of-the-art in vivo imaging based on magnetic resonance (MR), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), in vivo bioluminescence and optical coherence tomography (OCT). The integrated program will also provide for common access to essential cores for veterinary anesthesia/cell culture, electrical and computer engineering, and administration. The program will also provide for continued research to improve imaging with all three modalities, as they are applied to problems in cancer biology in vivo.

User Guidelines:

SWAIR User's Policy

The Southwest Animal Imaging Facility is an NCI-funded resource for animal imaging. The mission of this facility is to provide access to state-of-the art imaging instrumentation and to increase applications through outreach. As part of this function, we can underwrite imaging experiments for investigators who are doing cancer related research AND who have a funded project (without imaging) from an extramural source (preferably NIH). The expectation is that, through this outreach, imaging will reach a broader community, and that imaging related aims will be included in future grant proposals.   See User Checklist.

Imaging Resources:

SPECT	BMR	OCT	VET
Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography	Biological Magnetic Resonance	Optical Coherence Tomography	Animal Welfare
Capabilities	Capabilities	Capabilities	Capabilities
Faculty	Faculty	Faculty	Faculty
Staff & Students	Staff & Students	Staff & Students	Staff & Students
Research Projects	Research Projects	Research Projects	User Checklist
Publications	Publications	Publications	Publications

University of Arizona sites:

-Arizona Cancer Center
-Center for Gamma-Ray Imaging
-Department of Optical Sciences

 

 

Southwest Small Animal Imaging Resource
The University of Arizona
warnerm@email.arizona.edu

September 15, 2005
© 2005 Arizona Board of Regents