Figure 11 .

Mouse CT imaging. (Left) Individual mouse arrangement for CT imaging. The mouse can be secured with surgical tape. Care must be taken to ensure the chest is not too tightly secured, limiting respiration. A heat supply has been arranged under the mouse to prevent hypothermia. (Middle) Individual mouse prepared to enter a MRI scanner. The animal receives inhalant anesthesia via a nose cone at the end of the bed and is monitored via respiration (blue tube) and rectal temperature (black cable). The body temperature is maintained with warm air. (Right) Anesthesia can be delivered by modifying commonplace equipment. Here, slip-tip 60-mL syringes are connected to anesthetic tubing to deliver inhalant anesthesia to mice. Images courtesy of Dr Laura Pisani of Stanford Center for Innovation in in Vivo Imaging and Dr Tim Doyle and Wu Tsai Neuroscience Imaging at Stanford University.