Biological Imaging

This course aims at giving the student an understanding of biomedical imaging including the physical and optical principles of cutting-edge microscopes and beamlines. The course includes show cases at the instruments and, thus, will be an important asset for students that want to integrate biological and soft-matter imaging in their Master projects. 

After the course the student should be able to:  
Knowledge: 
Describe properties of different light sources and their impact on biological specimens;
Understand the principles of specimen preparation;
Process raw data from different imaging modalities, including mulitvariate analysis of 4D image series;
Availability of biological imaging facilities in the Øresund region;
 

Skills:
Analyse and evaluate scientific papers which utilise biological imaging instruments and -beam lines;
Make a flow-chart of data management from raw image data to analysis;
Process  image series with simple software algorithms for contrast and brightness improvement, segmentation and automated analysis

Competences: 
Select appropriate imaging modalities to visualise molecular or cellular structures and processes;
Describe the limitations of the different imaging modalities used in the course;
Judge suitability of MAX IV or ESS to solve scientific questions of a project within Biology, Biology-Biotechnology, Computer Science, Medicine and Technology, Molecular Biomedicine, Nanoscience or Pharmaceutical Sciences while being aware of competing imaging instruments.