Method and apparatus for animal positioning in imaging systems

Patent · 01 January 2013

OSTI ID:1082940

Hadjioannou, Arion-Xenofon; Stout, David B.; Silverman, Robert W.

An apparatus for imaging an animal includes a first mounting surface, a bed sized to support the animal and releasably secured to or integral with the first mounting surface. The apparatus also includes a plurality of straps, each having a first end in a fixed position relative to the bed and a second end for tightening around a limb of the animal. A method for in-vivo imaging of an animal includes providing an animal that has limbs, providing a first mounting surface, and providing a bed removably secured to or integral with the mounting surface and sized to support the animal as well as being coupled to a plurality of straps. The method also includes placing the animal on the bed between the plurality of straps and tightening at least two of the plurality of straps around at least two of the limbs such that the animal is substantially secured in place relative to the bed.

• Research Organization: LBNL (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States))
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: FC03-02ER63420
• Assignee: The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, CA)
• Patent Number(s): 8,342,136
• Application Number: 11/660,298
• OSTI ID: 1082940
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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