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Research Facilities
The research facilities
available to faculty and students at UTHSCSA extend much beyond
the University proper through a series of formal and informal
research agreements with institutions in San Antonio and the surrounding
region. The list below gives a partial list of those facilities
at which projects are presently underway. Collaborative agreements
such as the Southwest Research Consortium allow synergistic extensions
of radiological research into broader areas of scientific, societal
and fundamental human importance.
UTHSCSA
A fully equipped
biophysics laboratory
A lab for graduate students fully equipped with computers, treatment
planning system and various diagnostic equipment for quality assurance
A departmental library containing approximately 1000 books and
journals on the subjects of Radiology and Medical Physics
University hospital where proposal to use diagnostic facility
for research will be reviewed case by case
Research
Imaging Center
PET Imaging Laboratory
GE/Scanditronix 4096 whole-body scanner
CTI/Siemens LSO High-Resolution brain scanner
Concord microPET small-animal scanner
Scanditronix MC-17 cyclotronmeter
Fully robotic radiochemistry labs
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Laboratory
GE/Elscint 1-meter bore 2T whole-body imager
GE CSI 2T 0.45-meter bore animal imager
7T small bore mouse imager
General Electric GN300 7Tesla mouse MRI
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Laboratory
7T GE QE-300 spectrometer
A Fully Equipped Computing Laboratory
100/10 megabit LAN
200 Gbyte image archive
40+ UNIX computer systems
60+ PC and Macintosh computer systems
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Laboratory
2 - Cadwell High-speed stimulator systems
1- Magstim dual-pulse stimulator system
1- Magstim general purpose stimulator system
Event Related Potentials Lab
Other Support Labs
Electronics lab
Machining and fabrication lab
Cancer
Therapy and Research Center
7 linear accelerators
(Varian 2100CD, 2100C, 600C, Clinac 1800, Clinac 6)
Nucletron High-Dose Rate brachytherapy unit
2 cobalt-60 units
Peacock intensity modulated radiation therapy system
ROCS 3D RTP system
Hyperthermia treatment unit
Picker ACQSIM virtual simulator
Brooke
Army Medical Center
Therapy:
2 Philips multi-energy
photon/electron linear accelerators equipped with EPID and multi-leaf
collimators (SL
18)
A Philips 4 MV monoenergetic linear accelerator
(SL 75-5)
Philips Vericord verify and record system
Philips orthovoltage unit (RT-250)
Nucletron High-Dose Rate brachytherapy unit
CMS Focus 3D RTP system
A fully equipped physics laboratory (Wellhoefer water phantom/scanning
system, Harshaw TLD system with PTW annealing oven, various
ion chambers including thimble, plane parallel and extrapolation
design, Isorad diode detectors
Philips SLS simulator
Full complement of Cs-137 tubes for LDR brachytherapy (RTOG
affiliate member)
Diagnostic:
14 portable x-ray
machines (Siemens Mobilette Plus, G.E. AMX-4 and AMX-3)
8 C-arm units (OEC 9600, 9400, 9000, 6600)
5 mammography units (Siemens Mammomat 3000, , G.E. Senographe
DMR, Fischer Biopsy, Fischer Digital)
8 x-ray units (Philips Super CP 80, Philips Amber, G.E. MVP
60, Picker MTX)
2 Philips AMBER chest units
9 fluoroscopy units (Philips Super CP 80, Picker Vector 80)
3 CT units (Marconi Mx8000, Picker PQ6000, Picker PQS)
2 Marconi Eclipse 1.5T MRI units
8 ultrasound units
1 direct digital capture unit (Direct Radiography)
6 computed radiography image plate readers Large-scale PACS
(picture archiving and communications system)
Nuclear Medicine:
5 Gamma camera
units (Picker, Siemens, ADAC Labs)
A bone density unit A Siemens Diacam
A SMV T-22 Camera
3 Packard Cobra well counter
A Packard Multiprobe 208
2 Summit single photon emission units
A Siemens MS3
Wilford
Hall
Therapy:
A Varian 2100
C linear accelerator
2 Varian 600C linear accelerators
Stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic radiotherapy systems
Ultrasound guided prostate brachytherapy
Total body irradiation
Total body x-ray
Skin electron radiation
3D compensating filter system
ADAC 3D treatment planning system
Varian simulator
Diagnostic:
Currently there
are no professors associated with this department. Possibly
access to facility could be arranged on a case by case.
Brooks Air Force Base
Armstrong
Laboratory
The Armstrong
Laboratory, as one of the four Air Force "Super Laboratories,"
is known to be the Air Force's center of excellence for human-centered
science and technology. The Occupational and Environmental Health
Directorate assesses risks to personnel from hazardous materials,
noise, electromagnetic radiation, and occupational processes
in Air Force operations, and conducts research and development
to reduce such risks.
The US Air Force Personnel Dosimetry Laboratory serves as the
single point of contact for external whole body and extremity
dosimetry services to active, reserve, and National Guard US
Air Force personnel worldwide.
Radiofrequency
radiation facilities:
Contains the
nation's largest concentration of sources for radio frequency
radiation (RFR) research
18 RFR sources are operated and maintained, one ultrawide
band source, and 10 environmentally controlled, anechoic chambers.
Southwest
Research Institute
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