Facilities


The BIR Facilities are available to Mayo and extramural scientists to conduct biomedical imaging research through collaboration with the BIR staff.


Drop-In Center

* The drop-in center provides the researcher with access to multiple modern UNIX workstations as well as to high performance personal computers and peripheral equipment (printers, scanners, etc.).




Demonstration Area

* The demonstration area provides a comfortable viewing area and a set of fully equipped advanced workstations for demonstrating the latest image processing software and for presenting research projects to small groups



Conference Room

*The BIR also provides a workstation equipped conference room which is available for lectures, meetings, conferences and demonstrations.



Video ProductionFacility

*The BIR video production facility is capable of producing computer generated movies and high resolution color animations incorporating medical images, graphics, text, sound and/or special effects. The facility is also available for the production of scientific and educational training/instruction/demonstration videotapes, slides and color prints.



File Servers

*The BIR provides hundreds of gigabytes of storage for digital research images, accessible through NFS to UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh workstations.



Compute Server

*The BIR offers a high performance compute server for advanced image processing and analysis.