Facilities and equipment and Equipment

A preclinical small animal scanner for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET). The superconducting 3 Tesla magnet allows MRI with a spatial resolution down to 100 µm and the PET has a resolution of 700 µm. The absolute quantification accuracy is over 97%. (Installed 2016)

A preclinical small animal scanner for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET). The superconducting 3 Tesla magnet allows MRI with a spatial resolution down to 100 µm and the PET has a resolution of 700 µm. The absolute quantification accuracy is over 97%. (Installed 2016)

A preclinical small animal scanner for 2D positron emission tomography (PET). This instrument fulfils the gap between ex vivo biodistributions and our more advanced multimodal imaging systems. Planar mode is a fast method for in vivo screening of various biomolecules. (Installed 2023)

Cryotome to make thin tissue slices from frozen sections. (Installed 2019)

NikonCi microscope with LED illumination and digital image capturing. (Installed 2019)

In the cell laboratory there are two cell incubators.

GE Typhoon phosphorimager system for high resolution high sensitivity autoradiopgraphy of frozen sections. (Installed 2018)

Suitable for high energy gamma emitters, low activity samples. Ideal for all gamma emitters-broad energy range (up to 2 000 keV) allows studies of various nuclides. Isotope library contains information for 51 radionuclides. (Installed 2015)

Well counter

A cell harvester suitable for radioactive work.

Monitors molecular interactions in real-time on a spinning petri dish with living cells. Model ywllow is suitable for studies with high energy gamma emitters. (Installed 2019)

Chromater Alpha: An HPLC-UV-RADIO system for semipreparative purification and analysis.The system runs with OpenLAB software and the pump manage up to 10 mL/min. The UV detector has a remote flow cell placed inside the shielded fume hood. (Installed 2015)

Chromaster Beta: Analytical HPLC-UV-RADIO system. The system runs with Chromaster software. The UV-detector is a diode array dector (DAD) which simultaneously analyze a range of wavelenghts. This system is also equipped with an automated fraction collector. (Installed 2019)

The radiochemistry laboratory is equipped with two ion chambers and is used to measure radioactivity in radiochemistry optimisation. (Installed 2019)

The gallium-68 generator is used to produce gallium-68 for radiochemistry work. It can be eluted 2-3 times per day. (Generator renewed anually)

GE FastLab2, an cassette based automated syntheis module for productions of standardised PET and SPECT tracers. (Installed 2020)

High resolution filmless autoradiography. Quantitative images for all commonly used radioisotopes. Used for instant thin layer chromatography anaysis (iTLC) in radiochemistry as well as autoradiography of thin tissue slices.