About ICTS

The term Singular Scientific and Technological Installation (in Spanish, ICTS) refers to that installation that is unique or exceptional in Spain, whose investment or maintenance costs are relatively high with regards to the R&D investment budgets in the area where its activity is included, and which are unique in their nature, related to their different characteristics both in design and construction and in their use and/or applications. Its importance and strategic nature in technical research and/or development justifies its availability to all the R&D group and society as a whole, providing services to the national community of scientists and technologists, making them essential tools for the development of competitive and quality scientific and technological research.

Within the Consolider Programme the initiative of the Spanish government called INGENIO 2010 includes the drafting of a "Map of Singular Scientific and Technological Infrastructures (ICTS)" 2005-2010. This is a mid and long term construction programme of new ICTS. The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, MICINN, (previously Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, MEC) coordinates the actions relative to the large national scientific and technological installations, and establishes the action priorities.

The Molecular Imaging Facility at CIC biomaGUNE

Housed within 900 m2, the M.I.F at CIC biomaGUNE is an integrated imaging facility that offers state-of-the-art imaging resources in Radiochemistry Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography (SPECT), Computerized Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Optical Tomography. Including a dedicated animal housing facility for rodents, the Molecular Imaging Facility has been created with the aim of becoming a reference research centre in Europe in the field of Molecular Imaging in small animals.