Facilities
| Core Facilities | Institution | Contact Email | Expertise |
Imaging Technology Core |
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| Centre for Microscopy and Imaging | NUIG | peter.dockery@nuigalway.ie | Stereology, Light and Electron Microscopy |
Centre for Image Processing and Analysis |
DCU | paul.whelan@dcu.ie | Image Processing & Quantitative Image Analysis |
| Mathematical Modelling Transition Core | NUIM/RCSI/UCC | dimitris.kalamatianos@nuim.ie | Real-time image analysis & modelling |
| Applied Optics Research Facility | NUIG | martin.leahy@nuigalway.ie chris.dainty@nuigalway.ie |
Tissue Optics & Microcirculation Imaging |
| Nanoscale Biophotonics Facility | NUIG | alan.ryder@nuigalway.ie | Advanced Microscopy & Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy |
| Focas Institute | DIT | hugh.byrne@dit.ie | Optical Characterisation & Spectroscopy |
Animal & Human Imaging Core |
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| Small Animal Imaging Facility | RCSI | dhenshall@rcsi.ie | Laser-Doppler flowmetry, quantitative digital video-EEG, EEG telemetry, stereomicroscopy, 2-photon microscopy |
| Centre for Research in Vascular Biology | UCC | n.caplice@ucc.ie | CT-PET Imaging |
| Human Vascular Ultrasound Imaging Facility | RCSI | astanton@rcsi.ie | Dimensional ultrasonography, tissue doppler & contrast ultrasonography, next-generation contrast agents, echogenic microparticles |
| National Centre for Sensor Research | DCU | tia.keyes@dcu.ie | Raman and infra-red spectroscopic imaging, Sensor development |
Molecular & Cellular Imaging Core |
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| Molecular and Cellular Imaging Facility | RCSI | hduessmann@rcsi.ie | Epi-fluorescence and confocal microscopy, advanced live cell imaging (e.g. FRAP, FRET, FLIP), image processing and analysis |
| Molecular Medicine Electrophysiology and Fluorescence Imaging Facility | RCSI | bjpharvey@rcsi.ie | Laser scanning confocal microscopy |
| Focas Institute | DIT | hugh.byrne@dit.ie | High resolution spectral imaging |
| Nanobiophotonics - Biomedical Diagnostics Institute | DCU | collette.mcdonagh@dcu.ie | Nanobiophotonics |
| Nanoscale Biophotonics Facility | NUIG | alan.ryder@nuigalway.ie | Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM), Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) & Fluorescence Cross Correlation Spectroscopy (FCCS) |
| Biosciences Imaging Centre | UCC | kmcd@ucc.ie | Brightfield, fluorescence, Confocal and Electron Microscopy, Image Processing and Analysis |
| National Centre for Sensor Research | DCU | tia.keyes@dcu.ie | Raman and infra-red spectroscopic imaging, Sensor development |
