Imaging

Our imaging facilities are a world-class resource for imaging projects, with capabilities spanning biological and materials applications.

We offer imaging capabilities across all length scales, (mm to nm) utilising a suite of complementary techniques supported by local staff expertise to find your imaging solution.

Albert Crewe Centre for Electron Microscopy (ACCEM)

We are working to extend Albert Crewe’s legacy with a strategic focus on the development of new approaches to imaging atomic scale dynamics in SEM, STEM and FIB (focused ion beam).

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Biomedical Electron Microscopy Unit

The Electron Microscopy Facility is fully equipped for transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and serial block faces SEM (SBF-SEM). We are specialists in correlative light-electron microscopy (CLEM) and volumeCLEM. We also work with our colleagues in the Faculty of Science and Engineering to provide seamless multi-modal workflows.

Cell sorting and Mass Cytometry Facility

The Cell Sorting and Mass Cytometry facility offers researchers analytical flow cytometers and cell sorting, flow and imaging mass cytometry, single cell secretomics and proteomics, as well as cytokine profiling.

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Centre for Cell Imaging

The University of Liverpool’s Centre for Cell Imaging is a world-class microscopy resource, a member of the UK Node of Euro-BioImaging, and is listed in the Royal Microscopy Society national database. The Centre provides a state-of-the-art suite of custom designed, temperature-controlled rooms optimal for live cell imaging.

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Centre for Pre-Clinical Imaging

The Centre for Pre-Clinical Imaging offers researchers state-of-the-art technologies for multi-modality, non-invasive approaches to imaging on small, live animals (in vivo), or tissues and organs extracted from animals (ex vivo).

High-Field NMR Facility

The High-Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility offers researchers state-of-the-art solution-state and solid-state NMR technologies to determine the content and purity of a sample as well as its molecular structure, interactions and chemometrics of biological mixtures.

Histology

The newly established Histology Shared Research Facility encompasses two well-equipped laboratories that offer researchers the full histological process from preparing your samples through to scanning images.

Liverpool Magnetic Resonance Imaging Centre (LiMRIC)

The Liverpool Magnetic Resonance Imaging Centre (LiMRIC) offers researchers the necessary infrastructure and expertise for human research. Equipment and resources are supported by experienced research radiographers to help you get the best quality data.

Scanning Electron Microscopy Facility (SEMSRF)

The SEM-SRF and its staff have wide ranging expertise in all aspects of Electron Microscopy imaging and microstructural characterisation of a wide range of sample types across multiple scale ranges (mm to nm). Utilising complementary analysis techniques, to facilitate complete characterisation, enables researchers to probe and find answers to their research questions.

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Micro X-Ray CT Facility (XRM)

The Micro X-ray CT facility offers researchers access to a Zeiss Xradia Versa 620 X-ray Microscope (XRM). This X-ray Computed Tomography (X-ray CT) instrument is capable of showing differences in the X-ray attenuation of materials at sub-micron resolution.