Biomechanics and Multimodal Tissue Imaging Core
Mission Statement
The primary mission of the BMTI Core is to provide high quality, consistent, efficient and cost-effective services for imaging and biomechanical testing of musculoskeletal tissues from small animal models of musculoskeletal trauma and disease. These services include:
* State-of-the-art ex vivo and in vivo micro computed tomography (microCT)
* Molecular multispectral in vivo imaging
* Dynamic ultrasound imaging
* Biomechanical testing of tissues in various modes of loading
We also aim at providing consulting services to enhance and refine imaging modalities and novel image processing algorithms to derive correlates of functional healing that can be translated from the bench to the bedside.
Service Providers

Michael Thullen
(Lab Tech)
News
- URMC Orthopaedics Ranks No. 1 in Nation in NIH Funding
March 15, 2013
Musculoskeletal Research Lab Earns Spotlight at National Meeting
October 12, 2012 - Laura Calvi, MD Receives the Fuller Albright Esteemed Award
October 2, 2012
- NIH Awards $7.5M, Designates URMC Orthopaedics as Center of Research Translation
August 30, 2012
- URMC Leads International Consortium to Fight Deadly Bone Infections
April 17, 2012 - Edward Schwarz, PhD, to head The Center for Musculoskeletal Research
December 15, 2011
Upcoming Speakers
Neuman Room
8:00 am - 9:30 am
May 29, 2013
Jason Inzana - Fabrication and Characterization of 3D Printed Bone Graft Substitutes
Julianne Smith - In vivo pharmacologic modulation of bone marrow microenvironmental signals promotes long-term hematopoietic stem cell function
Kanika Vats - Tunable hydrogels for the delivery of cell therapeutic in Spinal Cord Injury




