{"391681":{"#nid":"391681","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Seeing More At Once","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor years, researchers at the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience have relied on a collection of state-of-the-art tools known as \u201ccore facilities,\u201d to help them tackle complex medical research problems and make the discoveries that can improve human health and healthcare. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe toolbox just got a little bigger. Recently, the Petit Institute added to its core facilities with the acquisition of an IVIS SpectrumCT In Vivo Imaging System, thanks to an NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThis is a high end piece of equipment,\u201d says Steve Woodard, core facilities manager. \u201cAnd it\u2019s somewhat unique as it combines multiple imaging modalities into one unit. So it\u2019s a bioluminescence\/fluorescence imager, and also a CT imager. It\u2019s a hybrid.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it is extremely valuable to the researchers who will be using it, Woodard adds, because they can use different imaging modalities on the same specimen, without having to transport the specimen from one instrument to another.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cIt allows you to do experiments you couldn\u2019t do otherwise,\u201d says Andr\u00e9s Garc\u00eda, a Regents Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who serves on the Core Facilities Advisory Committee and led the grant writing process. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUsers will be able to employ the imaging system to characterize disease progression and track therapeutic effects, essentially visualizing multiple events (using one or more specimens) simultaneously, ostensibly extracting the maximum amount of information from each subject, enabling a better understanding of disease biology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThis is sensitive, fast technology, and the data is more consistent,\u201d Garc\u00eda says. \u201cAlso, as a core facility many groups will benefit \u2013 at least 15 to 20 NIH supported groups that we\u2019ve identified. They\u2019ll have access to the latest in multi-modal in vivo imaging.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EContact:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003EBioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Core Facilities Add Multi-Modal In Vivo Imaging System"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECore Facilities Add Multi-Modal In Vivo Imaging System\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Core Facilities Add Multi-Modal In Vivo Imaging System"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2015-03-30 14:34:21","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:05","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"391671":{"id":"391671","type":"image","title":"Steve Woodard","body":null,"created":"1449246332","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:25:32","changed":"1475894406","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:06","alt":"Steve Woodard","file":{"fid":"75564","name":"steve_woodard.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/steve_woodard.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/steve_woodard.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":903317,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/steve_woodard.jpg?itok=WraoM72q"}}},"media_ids":["391671"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003EBioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}