Welcome to Preclinical Imaging Core!
The Preclinical Imaging Core’s mission is to provide the highest preclinical imaging services for research and clinical excellence.
The Preclinical Imaging Core (PIC) facility aims to promote Small Animal Imaging for all researchers.
PIC facility, located in the NMRL building, houses:
- A 31cm bore size 9.4T Agilent MRI system that can provide the full support of MRS and MRI studies in small animals (including mice, rats, and rabbits).
- A 129Xe hyperpolarizing system that provides high-purity, hyperpolarized 129Xe for gas phase magnetic resonance studies (especially for lung disease research in humans and animals).
- Two sets of isoflurane anesthesia systems, body temperature control, and vital signs monitoring systems.
- Two sets of home-designed isolation chamber systems for infected animals and animals from extramural research projects.
- Multiple commercial and home-made RF probes to optimize task-oriented high-quality MRI.
Small Animal Imaging for intra- and extramural researchers
Core Directory
Weiguo Li
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Faculty Advisor
Thomas J Royston
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Faculty Advisory Committee
Kejia Cai
Dieter Klatt
Tohru Yamada
Research Resources Center Cores
Research Resources Center
Meet the RRC
The Research Resources Center is a division of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Illinois Chicago. RRC offers research faculty, staff, and students a diverse inventory of high-end scientific equipment as well as a wide range of services offered by 14 core facilities staffed with highly skilled scientists. In addition, our staff trains the research faculty, staff, and students to use the scientific equipment. Through the RRC, researchers also have access to statistical and computational support for data handling, data transfer, and interpretation of experimental results. The RRC Scientific Store supports research on campus by supplying over 1300 items while Scientific Instrument Shop can fabricate one-of-a-kind models and repair various as well as complex scientific equipment. The RRC also welcomes external users doing scientific research.