Carestream Health is launching a new multimodality optical and x-ray system for small-animal imaging, called In-Vivo Xtreme, at this week's World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) in San Diego.
The preclinical imaging system comes in two camera configurations. A front-illuminated, 16-megapixel camera is suited for applications that require high resolution, while a back-illuminated, 4-megapixel camera can handle very low-light imaging experiments, according to the vendor.
Other Xtreme features include an f/1.1 lens coupled with a CCD sensor, a radiographic phosphor screen coupled with a microfocus x-ray head, and new multiplex software with advanced quantitative tools for overlaying and simultaneously analyzing data from up to four individual images, Carestream said.
Xtreme comes with Carestream's Molecular Imaging Software suite for acquiring, visualizing, and quantifying imaging data. If researchers also need to perform quantitative 3D tomographic imaging, they can complement Xtreme with Carestream's Albira PET/SPECT/CT system, the company said.
