Patent ID: 8078256

Claim:
An imaging system for imaging portions of small-animals, comprising: a plurality of elongated rails, comprising a first rail and a second rail, each rail having a longitudinal axis, the second rail being selectively mountable to the first rail and selectively movable in a linear bi-directional manner along the longitudinal axis of the first rail, the longitudinal axis of the second rail being positioned at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the first rail; and a scanhead assembly having a mount, the mount having a scanhead assembly base member that is selectively mountable to the first rail and is selectively movable in a linear bidirectional manner along the longitudinal axis of the first rail; and a small-animal mount assembly having a mount subassembly, the mount subassembly having a mount subassembly base member that is selectively mountable to the second rail and is selectively movable in a linear bi-directional manner along the longitudinal axis of the second rail.