Facilities

Biomedical Research Facility – Morningside Height Campus

The Biomedical Imaging Laboratory, is within the Fu Foundation School of Engineering, Engineering Terrace (ET), room 373. The facility consists of the following machines, peripherals, and devices to support the processing and analysis and evaluation of a diversity of medical imaging modalities, including PET, CT, MRI, ultrasound and digital radiographs in DICOM and “raw” file formats.

At the heart of the visualization and medical image computing facility is a set of servers, which includes:

  • One IBM xSeries Server, dual AMD 64-bit Opteron Processors, 8 GBs of ram
  • One IBM xSeries Server, dual AMD 64-bit Opteron Processors, 10 GBs of ram
  • Two IBM xSeries Servers, dual Intel Xeon Processors, 8 GBs of ram
  • One IBM xSeries Servers, dual Intel Xeon Processors, 2 GBs of ram

There are eight IBM Workstations available to Graduate Research Assistants for research purpose, which includes

  • One IBM ThinkStation workstation, dual Intel Core2Quad Processors, 32 GBs of ram
  • Three IBM ThinkCentre workstations, Intel Core2Duo Processor, 5 GBs of ram
  • Two IBM ThinkCentre workstations, Intel Core2Duo Processor, 4 GBs of ram
  • Two MacMini workstations, Intel Core2Duo Processor, 4GB of ram

There are three disk arrays that serves as our primary data storage devices

  • One IBM DS400 Disk Array, 2TB
  • One IBM USCSI Disk Array, 1TB
  • One Thecus n5200 Disk Array, 5TB

Biomedical Research Facility – Columbia University Medical Center

A sister imaging facility in the Deparment of Radiology is located in the basement of the Neurological Institute of New York building. This space consist of office space for Dr. Laine, two Biomedical Engineering graduate students and a fellow. The facility includes:

Servers:

  • One IBM xSeries Servers, dual Pentium IV 2.2Ghz Xeon Processors, 2 GBs of ram
  • One IBM IntelliStation M Pro Workstation, dual Pentium IV 2.2Ghz processors, 2 GBs of ram (used for Digital Jacket and acts as a DICOM gateway).

WorkStations:

  • Two IBM ThinkStation workstations, Pentium IV Processor, 2GBs of ram

These machines are connected to both “cpmc.columbia.edu” and “bme.columbia.edu” subnets via a local file server providing ATM (OC-3) and 100bT ethernet (TCP/IP) service.