Platform Imaging

Imaging techniques like, for example, microscopy and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), are key instruments in understanding living systems. The imaging platform of the DZL, with its state-of-the-art imaging technology, constitutes a success factor of the DZL. This concept is in line with the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) and particularly with the policy of the Euro-BioImaging Project. The imaging platform should guarantee the use of the latest imaging technology for the research carried out within the DZL.

The platform pools the existing skills of all DZL partners and provides the following: 

• Instruction and project coordination with regard to imaging and its management
• Stratification of structures and functional representations
• Central administration, standardization of guidelines
• Quality management
• Imaging technology training
• Guarantee of the adherence to ethical and legal guidelines
• Implementation of the principles of Good Scientific Practice

The platform covers the whole spectrum of imaging techniques and levels of resolution, from radiological imaging of the complete human lungs to small animals (CT, microCT, MRT, PET, FMT), as well as from high resolution electron microscopy (TEM, cryoEM, electron tomography) to quantification of the lung structure (stereology).