BICOR-Functional and Molecular Imaging Center
The Optical Imaging Core is located at Thorn Build 309 (75 Francis Street) of the main hospital of BWH and open to all the users of the BWH and nearby hospitals and Harvard Medical School. The core facility is designed to accommodate both the experienced investigator and newcomers to the technique. A core director provides training and technical support that can be tailored to the needs of the individual investigator.
The Core has both Bioluminescence and Fluorescence stations for in vivo small animal imaging.
The stations are easy to use and typically a one-hour training is all one needs to get familiar with each station.
(Minimal experience with animal handling, anesthesia, and Windows operating system is required.)
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Bioluminescence Imaging Station | Fluorescence Imaging Station |
The bioluminescence imaging station can image up to five mice at one time.
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To ensure the smooth running of the facility we have developed user guidelines and regulations (see below). If however you have any questions about these guidelines, we welcome your inquiries and suggestions on how we could help you. Our aim is to attract the very best biomedical research and development projects to both facilities and to partner with you to ensure the success of these projects.
All users must complete an OPTICAL IMAGING CORE Users Access Form. This will generate a username and password.
Independent users must first finish a training session, after which they will be able to access the facility 24 hours a day.
Reservations are made in one-hour increments. Bookings can be made up to three months in advance. Requests for unusually large blocks of time may be declined at the discretion of the facility staff.
Occupational Health & OSHA and Fire Safety. Download the BWH Blue Book and you must also take this quiz.
How do I make reservation to use the stations?
If you already have an account, please go to On line reservations to login using the group name OIC and your username and password. Once you log in, click on 'Resources' to select IVIS100 for bioluminescent imaging or NightOwl for fluorescence imaging. You can then reserve time slots by clicking and dragging the cursor over the hours you want. To modify or cancel a reservation, point the cursor to a reserved time slot and right click to cancel the time slot and then make a new reservation if needed.
If it is your first time to use the on-line reservation, please contact the Director xxu@bwh.harvard.edu to create a new account.
Openings:
We often have opportunitues for visiting scholars with backgrounds in engineering, optics, biology, or computational science, to work in our lab for a period of from six months to two years. The visiting scholars, depending on their backgrounds, may be involved in different aspects of our research, including hardware and software developing in optical imaging, small animal experiments. image processing, and bioinformatics. Please contact the director at xxu@bwh.harvard.edu for more information and availability of the positions. For current opening for visiting scholars and postdoc fellows, click here.
Contact us:
Xiaoyin Xu, Ph.D.617-525-9596
xxu@bwh.harvard.edu
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