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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

!!! All users of this instrument must acknowledge 1S10 OD025038 in all publications and NCBI My Bibliography !!! Please cite by using the Research Resource Identifier RRID:SCR_027720; Echo Core Shared High-Frequency Ultrasound Imaging Core Facility 

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