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The Cancer Imaging Shared Service (CISS) at the Arizona Cancer Center (AZCC) has been providing services to AZCC and outside investigators since 2003. The goal of the Service is to provide access to a turnkey optical imaging system, and to pre-clinical and clinical imaging technologies. The CISS also offers a developmental component to evaluate and initiate new research projects, and oversees access to the wide range of image acquisition modalities, including bioluminescence imaging, MR, and PET/SPECT approaches for animal experiments. An image analysis facility acts as a central clearinghouse to consolidate and standardize state-of-the-art image processing and analysis routines. Staff develop customized software to allow quantitative analysis of images acquired across all image acquisition platforms operated through the CISS. Within this context, the ISS provides three specific services to AZCC members:

1. An Institutional Imaging Advisory Committee through which investigators may initiate projects, have them critically reviewed, and obtain access to appropriate image acquisition modalities

2. Optical imaging capabilities in Confocal Imaging

3. Optical imaging services in Bioluminescence Analysis of gene expression.

An Image Analysis Facility, is housed in the Arizona Cancer Center, with high-end graphics computing capabilities and expert personnel for basic training and advice in image analysis approaches. Assistance in developing and customizing specific image processing techniques is available.

Thank you for your interest in the Cancer Imaging Shared Service!