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.

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.