The IDIR has three distinct areas of focus that share a common, enabling core of researchers, technologies, and innovation infrastructure requirements. Each area utilizes an innovation value chain approach wherein all the links in that process, from discovery to commercialization, are actively pursued.
Medical Imaging
At the IDIR, we develop non-intrusive medical diagnostic technologies and systems that have numerous applications in the areas of medical diagnostics, including the detection of cancer, heart disease, lung traumas, and dental diseases, among others. The focus of our research is to develop technologies, systems, and commercial products that have the potential to detect critical illnesses at their most curable stage, and in many cases when they are least costly to treat.
Biometrics Imaging
The development of new, non-intrusive imaging devices and systems employing acoustical energy and other technologies is put to use in many applications in the identification and security fields. The ability to non-intrusively take an image, both on and below the surface of the skin, of an object enables the use of new biometric parameters that can be used to identify a person or biomass with great accuracy and reliability.
Industrial Imaging
Non-destructive diagnostic and testing systems have applications in manufacturing-related quality assurance processes and in the development and characterization of advanced materials. This technology is vital to many industries, including the automotive, aircraft, energy, and agriculture sectors.