Centre for Advanced Imaging at The University of Queensland:
Visit Us after iSRS 2025

UQ invites you to tour our four floors of advanced imaging technology

The Centre for Advanced Imaging at UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology brings together a critical mass of researchers and state-of-the-art preclinical and clinical research infrastructure and instruments. This enables world class research through collaborations with industry and academia while allowing our own experts to innovate across spectroscopic and imaging technologies.

Research spans a broad spectrum, from development of new imaging technologies to studies of major diseases such as dementia, epilepsy, cancer and cardiovascular disease. Our services are also used for research in food health, agriculture, wildlife animals, plants, minerals and construction materials.

CAI’s impact on translational research is maximised through collaboration with clinical research sites and other local, national, and international research institutes. This gives CAI a comprehensive ‘end-to-end’ biomedical imaging capability which allows integrated progression from the laboratory bench, all the way through to a clinical setting.

What you’ll see

CAI houses an on-site cyclotron and state-of-the-art radiochemistry facilities. The IBA 18/18MeV cyclotron can make a wide range of radioisotopes including carbon-11, fluorine-18, copper-64 and iodine-124. In addition to these isotopes, the facility is able to handle isotopes including gallium-68, zirconium-89, technetium-99m and lutetium-177.

Generated radioisotopes are delivered to a suite of hot cells suitable for purification, manipulation, research synthesis and dispensing. The radio-analytical laboratory for the quality control of radiolabelled compounds includes high-pressure liquid chromatography, thin-layer chromatography and gas chromatography systems.

Expertise and facilities onsite also include PET, SPECT, Computed Tomography (CT), optical imaging, mass spectrometry imaging and MRI applications, including Australia’s only 7T exclusively for research purposes.

The centre provides a unique environment for performing novel drug discovery, preclinical research and translation of tracers to human imaging.

Date: Friday 16 May 2025
Venue: UQ Centre for Advanced Imaging (building 57), entrance faces the Wep Harris Cricket Oval, on the St Lucia campus.
Time: 9.30am for morning tea, to start the tour at 10am until 11.30am.
Capacity: Visit is limited to 24 participants only.
Transport: UQ is unable to provide transport. The St Lucia campus is well connected to public transport via bus and ferry. Information on public transport and on-campus parking is here. The visit is during semester, so parking will be limited. Once tour participants are confirmed, there may be options for the centre to e.g. assist with small group transport via Uber.