About the BIU

The Biomedicum Imaging Unit provides expertise and state-of-the-art equipment for modern multi-dimensional biomedical imaging applications. Currently available imaging systems include confocal and wide-field microscopes for high-speed and live cell microscopy, a high content screening platform, TIRFM and STORM superresolution microscope for sub-diffraction limited imaging, optical projection tomography for whole mount specimens, pre-clinical small animal optical imaging platforms, a 4.7 T magnetic resonance imaging platform, and image post-processing workstations. We provide services for user specific applications including image restoration and deconvolution, volume and surface reconstructions, animations, and various quantitative image acquisition and analysis applications such as FRET and FRAP. These services are available for all researchers, irrespective of their locations or affiliations.

The BIU is housed and supported by the Institute of Biomedicine and the Research Programs and currently receives additional financial funding through the Biocenter Finland's Infrastructure Network and Technology Platform initiatives, Biocentrum Helsinki, Academy of Finland, and the University of Helsinki. The BIU is a member of the Helsinki Functional Imaging Center (HFIC) and European Light Microscopy Initiative (ELMI). HFIC is a member of the European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research (EIBIR) and Nordic Network on Imaging in Medicine and Biology. In October 2008, the Life Sciences and Medicine & Environmental Assessment Panel identified HFIC as a national level Research Infrastructure.

The BIU is a Euro-BioImaging stakeholder. Find more information at www.eurobioimaging.eu

• The BIU was recently given a demonstration of the ART OPTIX MX3 small animal optical imaging platform. A report summarizing the results from the demonstration is now available upon request. (20.04.12)
• Dr Paul Jonsen of TalaveraScience will give a presentation on the ART OPTIX MX3 TDMI, on the 27th March at 10:00 in seminar room SH1, P-floor Biomedicum 1. The OPTIX MX3 is a small animal preclinical imaging platform which exploits time domain technology for 3D signal reconstruction and molecular imaging. The platform comes with a white light laser source , which enables any choice of excitation wavelength between 450nm to 800nm. The presentation title is, "Time Domain Molecular Imaging: Fluorescence Lifetime and Time of Flight Preclinical Imaging". This platform is under consideration for the BIU in vivo core.
• The BIU is currently seeking an individual with a science/technical/engineering background to add to its imaging staff. Details about the position are available for download here: BIU_Imaging_Engineer
• The BIU recently had on demonstration a whole animal imaging platform (FMT2500) from PerkinElmer which was capable of 3D reconstruction by Fluorescence Molecular Tomography (FMT). During the demonstration a number of animal models were tested. The report summarizing the results of those tests is now available upon request.

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