Life Sciences

Imagic is working closely with the ever changing demands of the Life Sciences, Medical and Healthcare Industries. In histology, pathology and biology, this field utilises more varied imaging systems than any other industry, from hand held still and video cameras, macro/micro optical and 2D+ laser scanning microscopy, scanning and transmission electron microscopy systems to standard flatbed or mammography X-Ray, CT/MRI and Ultrasound Imaging and more.

Requirements vary from small single workstations for basic image acquisition devices through to fully integrated institutional imaging centres. The complexity and variety of images archived means that ImageAccessTM is fast becoming a critical part of our clients’ infrastructure.

Large installations must rely on a fast and highly structured archive concept for the increasing amount of image data to be managed. These images and related meta data (such as project descriptions, magnifications, etc.) are immediately available to the users. ImageAccessTM, with its intelligent image management, causes minimal load on the network whilst providing best image quality. The imagic imsTM interface then enables cross platform PC and Apple Mac archive access and retrieval either via a secure html page, images viewer or java client application.
preparation B. Haenni, Copyright: institute for anatomy, University of Bern, CH Alveolar septum with capillary

Anatomy

In the Institute for Anatomy at the University of Berne, ImageAccessTM is used to manage and archive images (LM, LSM, TEM, SEM) for science and teaching. The centralised image management allows the preparation of lectures and presentations. Furthermore, the electronic image management allows direct access to image data collections from the auditorium. In future, the institute plans to link the image archives with other institutes for anatomy at other universities.
Dr. B. Rothen-Rutishauser, Copyright: institute for anatomy, University of Bern, CH Kultivierter Makrophage, F-Aktin, Präparat
Prof. P. Gehr, Copyright: institute for anatomy, University of Bern, CH Alveoli of the human lung, peparatin
In anatomy research an increasing number of digital images are now created in high quality for teaching and publications using acquisition techniques such as electron microscopy, light microscopy and AFM
Prof. O. Müller, Copyright: institute for anatomy, University of Bern, CH Armpit skin, epidermis, Goldner dye, preparation Prof.Landmann, Institute for anatomy, Basel, CHDr. Ziegler, institute for anatomy, Zürich,
  Botany / Zoology
An increasing number of images are generated in the application areas of Zoology and Botany; these images are classified and organised using ImageAccessTM which plays an important role in providing long term availability of research results.
   
Genetics/Molecular Biology  
Present-day cell biology, genetics, molecular biology and micro biology use a wide variety of different image sources such as simple light microscopes, high quality confocal microscopes, electron microscopes, and others. A vast number of images are created, managed and archived with ImageAccessTM.
   
  Microscopy and Imaging Centres
Prof. Peter Schüpbach, Microphot Horgen, CH Imaging centres must rely on a fast and highly structured archive concept for the large amount of image data to be managed. These images and related meta data (such as project descriptions, magnifications, etc.) are immediately available to the users. ImageAccessTM, with its intelligent image management, causes minimal load on the network whilst providing best image quality.
   
Neurobiology  
In the field of Neurobiology single nerve fibres and complete nerve epitheliums are analysed, dendrites are measured and compared. For these purposes, the digital image has gained a very high level of importance in Neuroscience. ImageAccessTM is used to gain a quick overview of the original image data, store processed images in a structured way and to create presentations and publications both speedily and efficiently. Dr. Anne McKinney, Hirnforschung University of Zurich, CH
   
  Pharmacology
Dr. Anne McKinney, Hirnforschung University of Zurich, CH In the basic research of pharmacology a large amount of images are created, which during analysis are documenting the influence of a variety of agents onto the living cell. ImageAccessTM plays an important role in the documentation and presentation of the latest science work in this field.
 

Imagic recommends Bitplane Imaris for visualization, segmentation and interpretation of 3D and 4D microscopy datasets.
Combining speed, precision and ease-of-use, Imaris provides a complete set of features for working with three- and four-dimensional multi-channel images of any size, from a few megabytes to multiple gigabytes in size.
 
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