Biomedical Illustration Services

This unit is staffed by certified medical illustrators and graphic designers and equipped to provide virtually any medical or scientific illustration needed for instruction, publication, presentation, and exhibition applications.

Highly technical surgical, medical, anatomical and product illustrations rendered in traditional and/or digital techniques, graphics for use in video productions, and technical illustrations of laboratory procedures
High quality animations of all medically related subjects (anatomy, surgical procedures, chemical and molecular reactions, etc.)
In-house scientific exhibit poster design and fabrication service for all exhibition formats.
Logo, journal cover, and patch design

Medical Photography

Our staff operates a full service processing lab for both film and print, black/white and color in traditional and digital formats. The medical photographers are specially trained for situations and subjects unique to biomedical sciences.

Film and slide processing
Medical and surgical procedures in the operating room and other clinical settings
Patient photography
Gross specimens, photomicrographs, electrophoresis gels, culture plates and equipment
Flat copy, artwork, radiographs, EKG's, charts and graphs for slide and digital output
Passport, I.D. application, and WebPage photos, faculty directory, special events, class composites, departmental group photos, and medical center building projects
Portrait packages

Animation

Biomedical Illustration Services has the ability to create 2D and 3D animations! Animation can be a very helpful tool to teach or explain complex subject matter. Animation can show correct orientation, position, size relationships, and motion over time. If you have a project in mind, contact us to discuss your idea. Keep in mind that animations take a long time to produce, especially 3D animation. Production time for a typical 3D animation may be measured in weeks and months instead of days, so be prepared, and contact us early. Call 4-1215, and we will direct you to the appropriate person!

Computer Services

An integral resource made available to the medical center faculty for converting traditional media to digital format for use in PowerPoint lectures and other presentations.

Image scanning for (Web, PowerPoint presentations, high-resolution)
Digital image retouching and composing
Transfer files to CD-R (RW), DVD
File conversions to publishing requirements
Image client-produced PostScript files

Exhibits

1. If one is creating their exhibit in PowerPoint, it should be formatted as one slide. With PowerPoint open, go to File>Page Setup, keep the slide size setting as custom,Change the height and width numbers to 50% of the final output size. Example, if the exhibit is to be 4' by 8' (48" x 96"), the slide size setting should be 24" x 48". Because the width of the paper used in the department is 42" the height size needs to be 21".

2. PowerPoint template - Template

3. If the department is producing the entire exhibit, the text should be in a word file. Graphs can be in PowerPoint or Excel and graphics (photographs, MRI's, X rays, CT's, etc) should be saved as high resolution (300 dpi or greater) jpeg or tiff images. With size specifications provided by the client, a layout of the exhibit is created. The client is called to proof the layout and make any necessary changes and/or corrections. After final approval, the exhibit is printed. Paper copies of the exhibit to be used as handouts are also available upon request.

Image Scanning

The department can scan images for use with powerpoint presentations. When submitting requests for a scan please specify how the image will be used and the proper resolution will be applied.