School of Health Sciences - Research Facilities

The School is equipped with state-of-the-art instruments for training and research in the areas specified.

The equipment and facilities available include:

  • Intrinsic Ge detectors with PC-based multichannel analysis capabilities
  • Liquid scintillation counters
  • Gamma counters
  • Thermoluminescent dosimeter readers
  • Gamma cameras
  • Medical X-ray devices
  • High-level gamma irradiators
  • Portable radiation monitoring equipment
  • Calibrated radon standards
  • Nonionizing radiation and electromagnetic field monitoring equipment
  • Gas chromatograph units
  • High-pressure liquid chromatographs
  • High-speed and ultracentrifuges
  • UV-visible spectrophotometers
  • Particle size spectrometer
  • Monodisperse aerosol generator
  • Instruments to measure pulmonary function.
  • Cell culture facilities
  • Molecular biology equipment
  • High-resolution microarray scanner
  • State-of-the-art in vivo and in vitro brain barrier transport facility
  • ELISA
  • High pressure microwave tissue digestion system
  • Preclinical Photoacoustic Scanner

Also available on campus are a nuclear reactor, a linear accelerator, an accelerator mass spectrometer, transmission and scanning electron microscopes and high-performance liquid chromatography, supercomputing facilities, and accredited animal facilities.

Graduate students have access to all the University's library facilities, including computer-based on-line search capabilities. The diagnostic X-ray and radiation oncology facilities of the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, are utilized in the medical physics program.

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