Located in the Translational and Biomedical Research Center on MCW's main campus, facilities of the Nanomedicine and Image-guided Interventions Laboratory house multiple wide-area optical imaging systems, as well as nanoparticle synthesis and physiochemical characterization facilities for earth-metal-based nanoparticles for drug delivery, imaging, and light-triggered therapies.
The facilities at NIGIL feature a variety of imaging modalities for infrared, shortwave infrared and thermal imaging, including image-intensified, dual-image-intensified and electron multiplying CCD cameras from Princeton Instruments capable of frequency modulation and nanosecond time gating in the 400–900 nm range; the indium-gallium-arsenide (InGaAs) camera system for shortwave infra-red (SWIR) imaging (900-1800 nm); as well as the FLIR thermal imaging systems.
NIGIL features rodent imaging chambers for live animal dynamic imaging for bioluminescence, visible to shortwave IR fluorescence, as well as a mobile cart-based imaging apparatus for swine and canine imaging.
Investigators at NIGIL have access to Class-IIIB and class-IV therapeutic lasers at multiple wavelengths for photothermal and photodynamic therapy.
Nanoparticle synthesis and physiochemical characterization facilities are available for liposomes, polymeric nanoparticles, gold, silver and rare earth metal-based nanoparticles for drug delivery, imaging and light triggered therapies.
NIGIL seeks to train undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral scientists in all aspects of translational, optical, and multimodal image-guided interventions while innovating imaging contrasts, methods and systems for precisely targeted treatments of human diseases. For more information on becoming a student in the Nanomedicine and Image-guided Interventions Laboratory, contact Dr. Joshi.
