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.
| Address | 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 ContactSvi.
Directions
Above is a map of the area in which SVI is located. Our office is indicated by the SVI Logo. 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.
Getting to our office by train
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.
On foot from the railway station to SVI
From the Hilversum Sportpark railway station to SVI is a 10 minutes walk. See the map above for the details. Here is an explanation of the walk.From Amsterdam/Schiphol: (solid line on map) Continue walking the platform in the same direction as the train. At the end, exit the platform and Go left at the footpath parallel to the platform. Keep left and walk straight on, until you reach a fence were you can only go right. Follow this path until you reach a road (you pass schools on your right). Turn left when you reach this road. Before the road makes a slow left turn, go left entering the parking place of the building where SVI is located. This building is greyish with dark red window frames. You'll find the 'B' entrance after crossing two thirds of the parking lot. SVI is on the third floor.
From Utrecht: (dashed + solid line on map) Exit the platform in the opposite direction as the train and cross the railroad. Enter the other train platform (for trains coming from the other direction) and exit this platform at the end. Go left at the footpath parallel to the platform. Keep left and walk straight on, until you reach a fence were you can only go right. Follow this path until you reach a road (you pass schools on your right). Turn left when you reach this road. Before the road makes a slow left turn, go left entering the parking place of the building where SVI is located. This building is greyish with dark red window frames. You'll find the 'B' entrance after crossing two thirds of the parking lot. SVI is on the third floor.
Getting to our office by car
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.
History
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.
Things to do around
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.- From Hilversum Sportpark train station you have a direct train connection to Utrecht every 15 minutes.
- Direct connections to Amsterdam are also very frequent from Hilversum main station. From Sportpark you can reach Amsterdam Centraal Station changing either in Hilversum or in Weesp.
- For train and other public transportation information, visit the NS site.
- Some tips on what to do in Hilversum. (More in Dutch).