IVIF – In Vivo Imaging Facility – Page 8 – a 3Rs Preclinical Research Core Facility at the UNIL/CHUV – Biopole Epalinges & Lausanne Agora cancer research center

CLE – Installation MILabs system final schedule

Here is the updated schedule for the MIlabs installation.

– Tuesday Oct 15th
Unloading, Unpacking, Inspection of the system, System Placement, Power up.

–Wednesday Oct 16th
Mechanical checks, Mechanical Calibrations, CT start up.

–Thursday Oct 17th
CT Mechanical Checks, CT safety.

–Friday Oct 18th
CT Quality Assurance Scans, Emission Detector Calibration.

-Monday Oct 21st
Optical Installation and Calibration.

–Tuesday Oct 22nd
Optical Quality Assurance.

–Wednesday Oct 23rd & Thursday Oct 24th
User training and Customer Acceptance.

AGORA – maintenance for 3T MRI

From Monday, November 4 to Friday, November 8 the 3T MRI system will not be bookable due to maintenance. A backup water system will be installed and as such, the system will be intermittently down. Please contact us if you would like to arrange limited scan sessions on Wednesday, November 6 and Thursday, November 7. We apologize for the inconvenience.

AGORA – update on the X-RAD SmART (PXI)

Most of the installation and commissioning have been performed last week. We are still missing the 5 mm collimator. We have had a setback in completion of the training. A small piece that controls the mechanical opening/closing of shutter of the detector broke. A technician is coming on Thursday 10th of October for reparation. Finally the commissioning for the missing collimator should be performed next week.

CLE – Installation microCT and Optical Imaging (MILabs) delayed

Unfortunately, due to a delay in the procedure of cleareance at the swiss border the installation and training on the MILabs system have been delayed. I am waiting for more informations from the company to give you an updated schedule.

My apologies for registered users to the hands-on training. I will keep you in the loop.

CLE – Two-photon Lavision is up and running

The two-photon microscope from Lavision has been reinstalled last week and is now functioning normally. Please let me know if you want to use it again as the software has been updated the interface may be different according to the application.

Thanks for your understanding and sorry for this long period without it.