The trend is to enhance the anatomical localization of biomarkers in small animals, tissues, organs. The ideal is a live molecular imaging with X-ray vision.

Which companies offer such combination of modality?

Dear Sandy,
Maybe this will help you and will answer your question,
First of all I found this PDF file which may help you:

http://www.medical.siemens.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StoreCatalogDisplay?catalogId=-1&langId=-1&storeId=10001

As for a company name maybe CTI Molecular Imaging; they are doing stuff for positron emission tomography (PET).
Guy

Sandy said:

The trend is to enhance the anatomical localization of biomarkers in small animals, tissues, organs. The ideal is a live molecular imaging with X-ray vision. Which companies offer such combination of modality?

Dear Sandy,

Kodak has a great Molecular Imaging System that provides 16-bit imaging performance, 4 million pixel resolution, and a 10x optical zoom. The system has an easy-to-use imaging platform with an Animal Management Center for multi-modal imaging up to 4 mice simultaneously. Three different types of imaging can be obtained:
1-Co-registered images located in different parts of the body of the living animal.
2-Fluorescence image.
3-Radiographical image
you can check: http://www.kodak.com/go/molecular1

Dear Sandy,
Maybe this website may help you www.perlong.com
you also may send email at:pt09@perlong.com.cn ,for more information.

This Kodak spinoff product line is really what your are looking for. It has a number of ways to image a specimen, including X-Ray:
http://www.carestreamhealth.com/en/US/en/health/s2/products/inVivoFXPro/specs.jhtml.htm

One added note, if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.

vegatcgroup said:

This Kodak spinoff product line is really what your are looking for. It has a number of ways to image a specimen, including X-Ray: http://www.carestreamhealth.com/en/US/en/health/s2/products/inVivoFXPro/specs.jhtml.htm One added note, if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.

Our department just tested this Kodak machine and it looks like we'll be getting it. I heard a rumour that it costs 70,000. (I wonder whether it's worth waiting for the Dollar to drop further???)