Our Facilities

The Hemodynamics Lab, as part of the Toshiba Stroke Research Center, has many of its own facilities, and as part of SUNY at Buffalo, it has access to even more.

 

The Global Heart & Vascular Institute

Construction is scheduled to complete later this year, and we will be moving downtown to the new 10-story Global Heart & Vascular Institute and Clinical Translational Research Center. The $291-million project is part of UB2020.

The Institute will contain numerous facilities for vascular and neurosurgical procedures, and will have four CT scanners and four MRI machines. It is to become "the preeminent flagship medical center in upstate New York," according to Kaleida Health CEO, James R. Kaskie.

Progress on the project was featured with much enthusiasm on the Buffalo Rising blog, last year. The project has progressed considerably since then, and is nearing completion.

More information is available on the Kaleida Health website: here.

 

 

Angiography Suites

The Toshiba Stroke Research Center houses two fully functional Digital Rotational Subtraction Angiography (DSA) Suites. DSA allows us to take 3D pictures of vascular structures such as aneurysms, which can then be translated into powerful computers for simulation purposes.

The adjacent Angio Suite is also an ideal facility for performing Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound (TDU). This system is another powerful imaging tool that quickly and accurately measures the velocity of blood flow in the brain.

 

 

Microscopy

Our lab regularly employs many different microscopy techniques. We often take advantage of the fluorescence microscope, a Zeis Axioimager, the visualize the processes we are interested in cells and tissue sections.

Recently we have also been investigating the fine detail of aneurysmal blood vessels using Scanning Electron Microscopy.

 

 

 

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