UMaine Institute of Medicine

Biomedical imaging is an important capacity to develop for the growth of biomedical research at UMaine. Enhanced imaging facilities will help researchers at UMaine compete for federal sources of funding and deliver on project objectives. This infrastructure grant requests the acquisition of Reflect RS, a vendor-provided diffuse optical imaging system. Diffuse optical imaging allows for a safer, non-invasive means to study tissue-level alterations in metabolism. This instrumentation is intended for the study of tissue composition. This acquisition will be administered by CORE and available to other researchers within and beyond the university. In addition to NIH-funded research, this instrument could be become part of a future NSF MRI application and other similar external funding requests.