Molecular Imaging Physics & Instrumentation Lab
Lab Resources
Molecular Plant Imaging Lab
This imaging resource was developed through a NSF Major Research Instrumentation award to enable molecular and phenotypic plant imaging research. The lab is equipped with a custom PET scanner (PlantPET) that is built inside a plant growth chamber to enable molecular imaging of plants under a controlled environment (including CO2 level, temperature, humidity, light intensity and exposure time, etc.). Leveraging a wide variety of radiotracers available from the Cyclotron Facility at WUSM, the Molecular Plant Imaging Lab provides a unique resource to plant biologists to investigate how plants interact with environments and other biological organisms (such as bacteria and fungus) through molecular and phenotypic imaging technologies nondestructively.