Research project: Deep Tissue Chemically Specific Theranostic Imaging for Cancer and Musculoskeletal Diseases
Funded by a Transformative Healthcare 2050 award by the EPSRC titled “Lighting the Way to a Healthy Nation” an interdisciplinary team of Southampton based scientists and researchers are developing novel methodologies and instrumentation that will allow early detection, imaging and treatment deep inside tissues up to several millimetres and ultimately up to several centimetres. The imaging process is aimed to be chemically specific and therefore, highly informative and yet completely non-invasive and non-destructive, whilst providing near instant results. The current target applications are melanoma and musculoskeletal diseases such as osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.