Biomedical Imaging Research Unit

Software

Computers within the Biomedical Imaging Research Unit are available for image processing and analysis.

There are no user charges for staff and students of The University of Auckland, however you still need to be an authorised user in order to make a booking using the BIRU Scheduler.

BIRU staff can offer individualised support and training for the following packages

ImageJ/Fiji
MetaMorph
Image-Pro Plus 3D
ZEN
Fluoview
Amira

Some documentation is available here.

BIRU also provides remote access to two virtual machines, that were developed in collaboration with the Centre for eResearch. The intention is to provide enhanced resources where desktops are insufficient.

Image J/Fiji Virtual Server

There are 2 licences available and bookings are managed via the BIRU Scheduler.

Virtual machine for VSlide Data on the NECTAR Cloud

The Nectar Research Cloud is a service of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC).

The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy Program (NCRIS).

This VM runs VS Viewer, Fiji and iLastik and is designed to support image processing and analysis of the very large data sets acquired on the VSlide slide scanner.

To access these VMs, please contact Ratish.

Amelia Power, Dept of Physiology Transverse section of a cardiac trabecula from a rat heart.

Urawadee Rajchakit and Hugh Glossop “Gold mine” Scanning electron microscopy

Software support

Biomedical Imaging Research Unit

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