High-resolution Tissue Imaging 

Facilities and Equipment

The phosphorimager and the cryomicrotome are housed in the IVISR. The various lasers in the BioRad FX-Pro-plus allow this unit to perform digital autoradiography by scanning storage phosphor plates or performing corresponding tissue fluorescence imaging by directly scanning the thin tissue sections at a 50-µm resolution.  

The phosphor plates can store the image from radiation photons of a wide range of energies from photons to positrons. The Vibratome Model 8250 cryomicrotome is capable of slicing intact whole rodents (up to 25 cm in length) in any thickness from sub- to 40 µm.