Scientific Volume Imaging b.v.
Scientific Volume Imaging (SVI) is a company based in Hilversum (The Netherlands), that develops high quality restoration (deconvolution), vizualization and analysis software for confocal, widefield, Nipkow and Multi-photon microscopy for multiple channels plus time series.
SVI's restoration, visualization and analysis tools enable our customers to obtain and finally publish high quality results from nearly all types of microscopical images. Our products are used by researchers and scientists worldwide. See some Svi Customer Testimonials.
SVI is the maker of the Huygens Software, named after the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens.
Laapersveld 63
(Laaperstaete building, entrance B)
1213 VB Hilversum
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 35 642 16 26
Fax: +31 35 683 79 71
(For more details see Contact Svi).
Above is a map of the area in which SVI is located. Our office is indicated with the red dot. From the parking lot you can enter the Laaperstaete building using the entrance (ingang) B.
The railway station has a direct connection to Schiphol Airport and Utrecht Central railway station.
There are direct train connections from Schiphol to Hilversum Sportpark (not Hilversum!) twice per hour. Alternative ways changing in Weesp or Amsterdam Centraal are also possible. Check http://www.ns.nl/cs/Satellite/travellers for actual schedules. The trip will take approximately 45 minutes.
Remember to buy your ticket beforehand! You can do this in the yellow machines located at the center of the airport, right above the underground train station. Some of them accept coins (euros) and major credit cards, appart from Dutch debit cards. A single second class ticket from Schiphol to Hilversum is about EUR 7.00.
If you come from Utrecht you have a direct train connection from Utrecht Central station to Hilversum Sportpark. This will take you approximately 15 minutes. A single second class ticket costs about EUR 4.00.
From the Hilversum Sportpark railway station to SVI is a 10 minutes walk.
Coming from the Airport direction, exit the platform at the first opportunity and follow the footpath in the direction in which the train was going.
From the Utrecht direction, walk back over the platform and cross the railroad. Take the street going immediately to the left, then take the footpath to the left.
In both cases follow the path until you pass a white office building with bright blue window frames. Go to the right, SVI is located in the next building, third floor.
Arriving from the direction Amsterdam. Take highway A10 or A1 direction Amersfoort, from there to direction Utrecht, A27. Exit Hilversum (33).
Arriving from the direction Utrecht. Take highway 27, direction Almere. Exit Hilversum (33).
At the end of exit 33, go left at the traffic lights (to Diependaalselaan). After that, move to the right lane, pass through a short tunnel underneath the railroad, and at the roundabout go right (to Utrechtseweg). At the next roundabout, go right again, and after 10 meters again to the right, just before the one-way section of the street starts. Bicycles have the right of way on both roundabouts! The building in which SVI is located is on the left where the street you're driving down curves to the left.
Scientific Volume Imaging (SVI) was founded in 1995 by Dr. Hans van der Voort based on his experience in developing software for microscopic imaging at the University of Amsterdam. Quickly other talented programmers joined him to speed up programming and expand the available software for more microscopic techniques. Cooperations were sought with other companies developing state of the art software for microscopists.
As DeConvolution was still a novel field at the beginning of the nineties SVI's clients were often pioneers in imaging in lifesciences and the software was developed for them and with them as their comments and requests were leading in the development of Huygens Software.
SVI developers work closely together with pioneering groups in imaging and biological science in the United States and in Europe, both directly and in various daring imaging Research Projects partly funded by Science Foundations and the European Union.
Results from those cooperations can be found in all SVI software so also in its most widespread software package Huygens Essential. Introduced in 2000 so that also the novel user could deconvolve image stacks very easily, it soon became a great success as deconvolution suddenly became an easy matter.
Since 2003, next to its long standing experience in deconvolution on many different platforms, SVI has taken major steps into adding visualization and analysis software as a logical next step for its users of Huygens deconvolution.
Are you visiting us for a training? Then you may find this information useful.
Amsterdam and Utrecht are very nearby. Both are very nice cities that deserve a visit. Hilversum is also a very active city with nice places to have dinner after your course in SVI.
