The angiography laboratory, which is operated exclusively for research purposes and is equipped with a robot-mounted flat-panel X-ray C-arm type Siemens Artis zeego offers unique opportunities for the development and evaluation of minimally invasive medical technologies under clinically relevant conditions, as well as for professional training of physicians and assistant medical technicians. The operationof the lab without patients enables the reliable planning of studies and trials, from the basics through phantoms to animal models. The potential uses of this highly advanced, combined X-ray-/CT system are unique in Germany.