Mars Bioimaging has sold a Mars Microlab 5X120 spectral photon-counting CT scanner to Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic.
MARS Microlab 5X120 scanner.Mars Bioimaging
The scanner will be installed by year’s end at the Centre for Advanced Preclinical Imaging (CAPI) within the university’s First Faculty of Medicine. It will enable in vivo preclinical imaging, allowing researchers to visualize biological processes in living organisms in color and in unprecedented detail, the company said.
The Mars Microlab 5X120 enables simultaneous measurement of up to eight energy windows/bins at very high spatial resolution (50 to 200 µm) with low noise. It also enables identification and quantification of various components of soft tissues, bones, cartilage, and exogenously administered contrast agents and pharmaceuticals in a single scan of up to six different materials simultaneously.
![Images show the pectoralis muscles of a healthy male individual who never smoked (age, 66 years; height, 178 cm; body mass index [BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared], 28.4; number of cigarette pack-years, 0; forced expiratory volume in 1 second [FEV1], 97.6% predicted; FEV1: forced vital capacity [FVC] ratio, 0.71; pectoralis muscle area [PMA], 59.4 cm2; pectoralis muscle volume [PMV], 764 cm3) and a male individual with a smoking history and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) (age, 66 years; height, 178 cm; BMI, 27.5; number of cigarette pack-years, 43.2, FEV1, 48% predicted; FEV1:FVC, 0.56; PMA, 35 cm2; PMV, 480.8 cm3) from the Canadian Cohort Obstructive Lung Disease (i.e., CanCOLD) study. The CT image is shown in the axial plane. The PMV is automatically extracted using the developed deep learning model and overlayed onto the lungs for visual clarity.](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/03/genkin.25LqljVF0y.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&crop=focalpoint&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
