The Radiation Biology Shared Resource maintains and operates equipment and facilities to deliver ionizing radiation for research use.
Contact
For questions and service requests, please contact Dr. Kimberly Krager, Research Associate, at KJKrager@uams.edu, or Dr. Marjan Boerma, Director, at mboerma@uams.edu.
Overview
The core can deliver X- and γ-rays at a broad range of dose rates and radiation field sizes for a variety of purposes, such as:
- Irradiation of cell cultures;
- Animal whole-body irradiation;
- Irradiation of animal tumor models; or
- Other (image-guided) partial-body irradiation.
Services
- Maintenance of radiation equipment and radiation dosimetry
- Consult in the design and development of new animal and cell culture radiation models
- Perform whole-body or localized irradiation of animal models
- Perform radiation exposure of cell cultures
Equipment
- Cesium source irradiator (J.L. Shepherd)
- X-Rad 320 (Precision X-Ray)
- Small Animal Radiation Research Platform (SARRP, Xstrahl)