Molecular Imaging Center Antwerp
The MICA team develops radiotracer probes in the context of therapy and theranostics to detect biomarkers in pre-clinical and eventually clinical testing using PET scanning, effectively achieving a bench to bedside workflow.
At MICA you will have access to:
Radiopharmacy
- A cyclotron (Siemens Eclipse HP 11MeV)
- 10 hot cell units (Veenstra synthesis modules, fastlabs GE),
- Fully-equipped QC lab (HPLC, automated gamma-counter, ...)
Pre-clinical imaging lab
- SPF animal facility with capacity of up to 500 rodents
- Preclinical PET/CT cameras (Siemens Inveon)
- Simultaneous PET/SPECT/CT small animal scanner (MILabs VECTor/CT)
- Automated gamma counter and HPLC for metabolite analysis
- Fully-equipped cell culture lab for tracer validations
- μradiotherapy irradiator system (x-RAD)
- Pre-clinical TMS set-up
- Fluorescence/optical camera (IVIS)
Nuclear Medicine (clinical department)
- Integrated dual headed SPECT/CT
- ToF PET/CT camera (Siemens)