The Biomedical Imaging Laboratory is co-directed by Glen L. Niebur and Ryan K. Roeder and located in 582 square feet of space. Major equipment includes a ScanCo µCT-80 micro-computed tomography scanner and computer system with 80 GB hard drive space; a Nikon ME1600 optical microscope equipped for transmitted and reflected light microscopy, fluorescence imaging, and digital imaging/analysis using an Optronics digital camera connected to a dedicated computer; a Nikon SMZ 800 optical microscope; a Panametrics ultrasonic pulser/receiver with a Tektronix oscilloscope; and a Leco M-400 microhardness tester. A high performance computer cluster includes an SGI Octane workstation with 2 GB of RAM and an AMD Opteron 2 processor Linux workstation with 3 GB of RAM. A total of 330 GB of shared disk space is available on the two systems. A DLT backup drive is connected to the SGI workstation for backup of both systems. Software includes ABAQUS and MARC finite element analysis applications, TrueGrid and Hypermesh for finite element mesh generation, IDL and Matlab for image processing and general mathematics.

Laboratory Photos
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