BioCardioLab shares hardware and software facilities with Bioimaging of Pisa
Hardware
- The BCL is equipped with facilities specifically devoted to advanced image processing and numerical simulations:
- Six dedicated workstations are available for simulations, pre- and post-processing (i7 Intel processor, 16GB RAM each)
- Two dedicated workstations are available for simulations, pre- and post-processing (Xeon dual core 2.5 GHz Intel processor, 64GB RAM each)
- Two high performance computing Dell Precision dedicated for numerical simulations with a total of 88 cores and 608 GB RAM
Software
- Ansys mechanical
- Ansys Fluent
- RBF-morph
- ANSA
- RETOMO
- Solidworks
- Abaqus
- Osirix
- LabView
- Matlab
- SimVascular
- Crimson
- Python
- 3D slicer
- VMTK
- VMTKlab
- Segment
- Horos
Imaging Scanner
- OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT)
- IVUS Boston Scientific
Testing Machines
- Biaxial testing machine
- Uniaxial testing (tension/compression)
- Ultrasound system
- Mock Loop for cardiovascular systems
- Pulse duplicator for the simulation of coronary flow
- 4 peristaltic pumps
- 2 centrifugal pumps
3D Printers
- 3D printer Form 2 FormLabs
- 3D printer A4v4 3ntr
- 3D printer Lisa Pro Sinterit
Data Acquisition systems
- cRIO-9047 National Instruments
- cDAQ-9132 National Instruments
- Oscilloscope IDS-2102E Iso-Tech
- High speed M4i.4410-x8 PCIe acquisition board Spectrum
- camera 1
- camera 2
- camera 3
Coagulation systems
- Laboratory water-bath
- Global Thrombosis Test (GTT)
- Chandler loop
Miscellanea
- Chemical hoods
- Laboratory centrifuge
- Trinocular Biological Microscope – ZEISS Primo Star
- Rotablator system – Boston Scientific
