Preclinical Imaging
Description
Data produced on animals using imaging techniques like MR, PET/MR, PET/CT.
Type of data/experiments/methods
MR Imaging
- Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine format DICOM
NMR spectroscopy
Metadata Standards
DICOM standards
- Ontologies and Controlled vocabularies: DICOM Controlled Terminology
Storage and Computing
Data Deposition Repository
Repository
- Presently, there are no available national or international platforms dedicated to storing and making available for re-use the type of imaging data produced by NORMOLIM.
- For long term data storage, an option might be the National e-Infrastructure for Research Data NIRD RESEARCH DATA ARCHIVE. This service is owned and operated by Sigma2
Ethics and Regulations
All the work with laboratory animals performed at NORMOLIM is subject to
- Norwegian law, the Animal welfare act (LOV-2009-06-19-97),
- the Norwegian Regulation on Animal Experimentation (FOR-2015-06-18-761)
- the European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals Used for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes (ETS 123) Moreover, it has be approved by the Norwegian authority on animal welfare (Forsøksdyrutvalget)
Work involving genetically modified microorganisms (including bacteria, virus and viral vectors) and animals must be conducted in accordance with the Norwegian Regulation on Enclosed Use of Genetically Modified Microorganisms (FOR-2001-12-21-1600) and Regulation on Genetically Modified Animals (FOR-2001-12-21-1602), and must be reported to the Norwegian Directorate of Health.
Services in Norway
RDM Services
An overview of the data management resources in Norway is to be found at RDMkit.
Scientific Services
- NORMOLIM Contact Information / Website Link
- NORMOLIM is operated as a distributed node consisting of three sites located in Trondheim (NTNU), Bergen (UiB) and Oslo (OUS). All the research groups involved collaborate closely with the university hospitals and are directly involved in clinical research on translation of new knowledge, new therapies and new methods/technology into new clinical practice.
Useful Links
More information
Links to other ELIXIR resources
Contributor
NorMOLIM (Norwegian MOLecular IMaging) infrastructure, NTNU