The primary mission of the Imaging Technology Group (ITG) is to provide state-of-the-art imaging facilities for researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and University of Illinois. This service mission is accomplished through two facilities: the Microscopy Suite and the Visualization, Media, and Imaging Laboratory (VMIL).

A secondary mission of the ITG is to develop advanced imaging technologies with an emphasis on projects in remote instrument control and visualization.

Sedimentary Ejecta from a Cretaceous/Tertiary Meteorite Impact Crater

15 Jun 2000

This sedimentary ejecta from the Cretaceous/Tertiary meteorite impact crater was collected from the Mayan Mountains in Belize. Imaged using the ESEM in the Microscopy Suite.

Image Courtesy: Rick Wachtman - Department of Geology
Contact: wachtman@uiuc.edu

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ITG News

Image from ITG on Cover of Chemical Reviews

The cover for the February 2008 edition of Chemical Reviews includes an image produced in the Visualization, Media, and Imaging Laboratory. The image, which is bottom right on the cover collage, depicts a plasmonic crystal array. It accompanies a paper by Matthew E. Stewart, Christopher R. Anderton, Lucas B. Thompson, Joana Maria, Stephen K. Gray, John A. Rogers, and Ralph G. Nuzzo on Nanostructured Plasmonic Sensors. ITG Visualization Specialist Alex Jerez created the image in the VMIL using several software packages, inclduing Amira, Maya, Photoshop, and After Effects.

Posted: 2008-05-01

New High Resolution X-Ray Micro-CT from Xradia

New High Resolution X-Ray Micro-CT from Xradia A new high resolution X-Ray micro-CT from Xradia has been installed and is ready for users. The new micro-CT provides 1 micron resolution compared to the 5 micron resolution from SkyScan 1172 micro-CT currently in VMIL. Xradia micro-CT also comes with proprietary ultrafast reconstruction program that takes minutes rather than hours to reconstruct a 3-D model from hundreds of 2-D images. The new micro-CT includes a micro-focused 10W (40~150 KeV) Tungsten tube, TE-cooled 4 mega-pixel CCD camera, 5 microscopic objectives (2X, 4X, 10X, 20X and 40X), and high-precision 4-axis motorized sample stage. The 40~150 KeV X-ray energy level allows a wide spectrum of materials that can be imaged by the new system. Please contact Leilei Yin for more information.

Posted: 2008-04-01

Job Opening for Director of the Imaging Technology Group

ITG has a job opening for a new director. Read the announcement, and if you have questions, please contact jobs@beckman.uiuc.edu.

Posted: 2008-01-30

Cover of Nature Photonics Created by ITG

The January 2008 issue of Nature Photonics features a cover image created by ITG depicting the work of Stephanie Rinne, Florencio García-Santamaría, and Paul Braun. The highlighted article describes their current research with embedded cavities and waveguides in three-dimensional silicon photonic crystals. The image was produced in the Visualization, Media, and Imaging Lab by ITG 3D Artist Steve Eisenmann. Eisenmann combined models created in a 3D application, bringing them into Maya for rendering and Photoshop for final compositing.

Posted: 2008-01-03

ITG Creates Cover for Nature Chemical Biology

ITG created the cover image for the December 2007 cover of Nature Chemical Biology. The image illustrates the work by Hee-Kyung Kim, Ivan Rasnik, Juewen Liu, Taekjip Ha and Yi Lu, and accompanies their paper titled Dissecting metal ion–dependent folding and catalysis of a single DNAzyme. The image was created by Alex Jerez, Hee-Kyung Kim and Yi Lu.

Posted: 2007-11-25

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