Technology Platform Services

HFIC provides an integrated imaging infrastructure and access to advanced imaging technologies which facilitate biomedical and bioscience researchers in understanding the relationships of function and structure in cells, tissues, organs, and preclinical animal models. All HFIC members provide open access services for all researchers and affiliated partners, irrespective of their locations or affiliations. The aim is to improve the availability of advanced imaging hardware and analysis tools, based on current and future research needs.

Light Microscopy Platform

Confocal live cell microscopy

• Advanced Microscopy Unit, Meilahti Campus
• Biomedicum Imaging Unit, Meilahti Campus
• Light Microscopy Unit, Viikki Campus
• Zebrafish Unit, Meilahti Campus

Fluorescence lifetime imaging and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

• Light Microscopy Unit, Viikki Campus

High content screening

• Biomedicum Imaging Unit, Meilahti Campus
• High Throughput Biomedicine Unit, Technology Center, FIMM
• Light Microscopy Unit, Viikki Campus

Multiphoton microscopy

• Light Microscopy Unit, Viikki Campus

Superresolution microscopy

• Biomedicum Imaging Unit, Meilahti Campus

Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy

• Biomedicum Imaging Unit, Meilahti Campus
• Light Microscopy Unit, Viikki Campus

Wide-field live cell microscopy

• Biomedicum Imaging Unit, Meilahti Campus
• Light Microscopy Unit, Viikki Campus

Electron Microscopy Platform

Transmission electron microscopy

• Advanced Microscopy Unit, Meilahti Campus
• Electron Microscopy Unit, Viikki Campus
• Nanomicroscopy Center, Otaniemi Campus

Cryo-electron microscopy

• Cryo-EM Facility, Viikki Campus
• Nanomicroscopy Center, Otaniemi Campus

Scanning electron microscopy

• Department of Chemistry, Kumpula Campus
• Electron Microscopy Unit, Viikki Campus
• Nanomicroscopy Center, Otaniemi Campus

Material Microscopy and Tomography Platform

Focused ion beam microscopy

• Department of Chemistry, Kumpula Campus

Scanning probe microscopy

• Department of Chemistry, Kumpula Campus
• Nanomicroscopy Center, Otaniemi Campus

Scanning tunneling microscopy

• Nanomicroscopy Center, Otaniemi Campus

X-ray microtomography

• Laboratory of Microtomography, Kumpula Campus

X-ray scattering

• Nanomicroscopy Center, Otaniemi Campus

In Vivo Imaging Platform

Bioluminescense and fluorescence

• Biomedicum Imaging Unit, Meilahti Campus

Optical projection tomography

• Biomedicum Imaging Unit, Meilahti Campus

Single photon emission computed tomography

• Real-Time Imaging Unit, Viikki Campus