Info COVID-19

Dear IVIF users,

We received instructions from the Dean’s office concerning our activities. We should not come on site unless emergency or help with on-going experiments that have to be completed ASAP. Do not hesitate to contact us by phone or by email if you need help or assistance.

We will be able to trouble shoot by phone or to connect to the acquisition PCs by teamviewer. If not enough, then  we can come on site. Our visit will  be only for this particular matter. Once a week we will double check consumables and make sure you are not running out of isoflurane. If you have a particular protocol to apply that requires us, please tell us in advance so we can plan to be there. We have been asked to keep track of each move we do on site.

Thank you for your understanding.

Stay safe.

Xenogen IVIS lumina II move

Dear Users,

Please note the new date for the move May 26-27, as we had to postpone due to the lockdown.

The IVIS lumina II will be moving from the conventional animal facility to the IVIF facility in room 101 next door (see the map). The room is still included in the same sanitary status of the conv-animal facility C  meaning that you can still do longitudinal studies as usual. This will free up some room for the housing and centralized imaging activities to one area. The move will be followed by a maintenance, especially chaging LED connections that are from time to time on & off and will last two-days from April 16 – 17  May 26-27. Days have been booked already on the IRIS system.

Combo microCT/OI (Xray + Biolum/fluo)- Advanced training

Thanks to all the users participating to the advanced training on the combo optical imaging (Biolum/fluo) and microCT installed at the conventional animal facility CLE C. It was very instructive as it was very diverse, going from Fat pad in vivo imaging to lung nodules, bladder, Caecum and bones. We got a press release after that The University of Lausanne installs a high-end MILabs’ Duet Optical Imager in its core In-Vivo Imaging Laboratory

 

CLE – Training microCT and Optical Imaging (MILabs)

On Monday, February 10th and Tuesday, February 11th an application specialist from MILabs will be presenting our Hybrid microCT and optical imaging tomograph. This brand-new system will be available to all researchers working in Epalinges.

A public seminar has been organized, as well as specific hands-on training. The latter, however, will be limited to five people, so please contact us  asap if you would like to attend.

Below you can find the program timeline:

Day1 Comments
8:45 – 9:00 Arrival
9:30 – 12:00 System demo Depending on the amount of people fitting in the room; otherwise we split the attendees in groups
12:15 –

13:15

Seminar room B301

 Highlighting the capabilities of MILabs’ systems

Covering 2D OI, 3D/CT, CT standalone

A couple of slides about different imaging modalities (SPECT/PET)

For bigger audience
13:15 – 14:00 Lunch
14:15 – 17:00 Training presentation

Covering different modules, some precautions, data acquisition, data reconstruction and analysis

For users
Day2
8:45 – 9:00 Arrival
9:00 – 12:00 Animal acquisition, BLT/FLT/CT acquisitions, default protocols

Depending on research needs different animal modals preferably with CT and OI contrast

Maximum number of people should be 5
12:00 – 12:30 Lunch
12:30 – 14:00 Animal scans reconstruction; manual recon (CT) and advance recon (CT)
14:00 – 17:00 Data inspection, visualization and analyses