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About

Echo Core - Shared High-Frequency Ultrasound Imaging Facility

Overview of Services

        

 About Us:

  • Provide instrumentation for high-resolution in vivo ultrasound imaging
  • Managed by the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology
  • Purchased with support by an NIH S10 Shared Instrument grant

Services:

  • Access to instrumentation on a fee-for-use basis, $50/hr training, $20/hr thereafter for self-use
  • User training 
  • Use of data analysis using Vevo Lab software

Equipment & Technology:

  • VisualSonics Vevo 3100 high-frequency ultrasound imaging unit, small animal imaging station, micro-injection system, anesthesia unit
  • Linear array transducers (MX250, MX550D, MX700) providing resolution up to 30 um 
  • Power Doppler, Tissue Doppler, 3D mode, strain analysis, cardiovascular analysis and 3D imaging software
  • Work-station for data analysis

See:  https://www.visualsonics.com/product/imaging-systems/vevo-3100

!!! All users of this instrument must acknowledge 1S10 OD025038 in all publications and NCBI My Bibliography !!!

Location and hours of operation

Hours Location

Monday - Friday 

8AM - 5PM

MEB 4740

 

Contacts

Name Role Phone Email Location
Tina Wan
Manager, Research Scientist
 

 
twan@mcw.edu
 

 
John Auchampach
PI
 

 
jauchamp@mcw.edu