Examples of various types of imaging analysis from the OIST MRI for Laboratory Animals

Brain slices of older tissues prepared with ice-cold (blue) and warm (red) preparation methods, as demonstrated by Shiwei Huang and Marylka Yoe Uusisaari in a paper in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. The asterisks (*) indicate visible neurons. While no healthy neurons are visible in the left image, seven are visible in the right. Abbreviations: PN, Purkinje neuron layer; ML, molecular layer; GrC, granular cell layer.

Alexander Badrutdinov using a microscope to take a close look at a prototype developed by the lithography system.

Professor Sugawara, head of the Advanced Medical Instrumentation Unit at OIST.

X-ray micro-CT

Burriel-Ha’s 3D model of the ant head and first segment next to the 3D image on the computer used to print it.